By the way, I have to say that Mackie's marketing shtick is fun...

http://youtu.be/UkLchidlU_c

Right you are Oli. I feel a session coming on with a spotlight on mixers! We are still hoping to get some time with you and all that you do. Let me know if ever we can sneak in a few minutes between gigs with you.

Just got a Touchmix 16. Will use it on rehearsals on thursdays and gig on monday for the first time. Seems like it has rather good converters. Better than I thought it would have. Sounds great. Much better than my Yamaha 01V96. That will be sold now..... Small, light and well built. Hope it can handle some abuse. More after I´ve used it live.

I also heard that they are working on a bigger version. 24 channels and/or perhaps even a 32 channel version. But it won´t come out during 2016 most likely. More than a year away what I was told. The 12 and 16 channel versions have enough processor power so they´ll be able update the firmware and also add stuff for quite some time. So it´s not very likely that they´ll update these mixers when it comes to hardware/prestanda in the near future either. A year or more at least it seems. But one never knows. I´ve heard that before and all of a sudden there is a new updated version on the market...... But that was what I was told.....

I have to say the TM16 is very good. Until now it has proven to be reliable and a no brainer to use.

Yeah it's easy to figure out. Gets hot tho. But I like it so far. And my back LOVES it! [emoji23][emoji106]

Hot it gets, indeed. The function that really makes it stand out is the multitrack recording on a SSID drive. Brilliant for keeping trackS of your live performances.

+ 1 for "vertical"!

I played a bunch of surround gigs in a duo a few years ago and we had our rig set up for 8 speakers surrounding the audience. At one concert hall in Istanbul, that was more like dance club, they had four channels on the floor and four channels on the balcony five meters up. We quickly rerouted the rig at soundcheck and played with "vertical surround" (stage in center at the sweet-spot) and it was a very nice experience.

I've also done dance floor gigs (with a club act) playing wireless electric guitar through the ceiling system and was awesome as well - wherever you kept running the sound always came directly down at you. Very different compared to floor monitoring cans.

Can you recommend a good SSID drive that works? I will use it for recording a great deal. Starting at the next gig on monday.

Jan, you'll find a list of the compatible SSID drives on QSC's website in the Touchmix section. I chose one of them and it works perfectly. Have fun!