John Kurlander Fairlight EVO - Audio Media

allen & heath ilive t–72TIMELESS.hardware controllers so the surface has gone virtual.You don’t lose any functionality, you just have tocontrol it using the touch screen.In a way this has always been an option becausethe iLive controllers have always had an onboardtouch screen working in parallel with the physicalcontrols on the surface. The actual channel stripsseem identical to me to those on its bigger brethren,meaning you get two top bonuses. First, everychannel has a small LCD screen built in, which allowsyou to colour and name the channel and display mixinformation and other valuable stuff. Colour codingand naming your channels is a real winner. On otherconsoles at this hotly contested end of the marketyou can name the channel, but as you can only seethe name of the channel you have selected, it doesnothing for your overview. But I hear you say, ‘that iswhy they invented Post-It tape, so there’. Ah, Post-it isfine for an unlayered console, but do you really thinkyou can stick three strips of tape one above the otherand have any chance of finding the channel youwant in a rush? Personally I prefer having coloured,named labels on every channel that change as I goup and down the layers.Lowest noise floor in its class (3.7 dBA)A classic in its own time, the sophisticated new EquitekE100S, engineered and built in the U.S.A., has the smooth,rich tone with full low end CAD is known for. The bootstrapped,full differential Quadra-FET front end, plusCAD’s proprietary circuitry ensures the highest performance.Vintage cherry case and stealth shock mount included.European DistributorsBox of Trix GMBHGermanyRunway UKGreat BritianMogar Music SPAItalyLETUSA, SASpainSound ServiceGMBHSwitzerlandMusic Leader Int.FranceLauda AudioPolandTamstaLithuaniaR.S.L.Europe AudioNetherlands/BeneluxBelco AudioNorwayO.K. & CO.RussaSecond, every channel has a rotary controller thatcan be pan, gain, or trim. In combination with theshift key and alt-view you can have three functionsper rotary. So for my preference, gain at the top leveland pan on the shift key. It may be something to dowith different work flows, but not having gain at thetop level of accessibility on many digital desks is areal drop off. How many times have I reached out tothe tweak the gain on the ‘selected channel’ and idlywondered why I can’t hear any difference on mic A,only to realise I have been gaily altering mic F? Those days are gone with gain on the rotary.CADAUDIO.COMAUDIO MEDIA APRIL 2010 35