Midas consoles

[warmowski]

I Just got done live engineering a few months of shows at Chicago's Grant Park Spirit Of Music Garden for the Summerdance series. We had a new Midas venice 320 console. The strength of this board is its EQ as far as I'm concerned; the pres are fairly colorless and the console layout is slightly annoying (don't call Aux 3 and 4 FX 1 and 2, okay?) but overall it was a hardcore little console well-suited for outdoor applications.

Anybody ever use a Midas?

-r

[smopo24]

Originally Posted by warmowski

I Just got done live engineering a few months of shows at Chicago's Grant Park Spirit Of Music Garden for the Summerdance series. We had a new Midas venice 320 console. The strength of this board is its EQ as far as I'm concerned; the pres are fairly colorless and the console layout is slightly annoying (don't call Aux 3 and 4 FX 1 and 2, okay?) but overall it was a hardcore little console well-suited for outdoor applications.

Anybody ever use a Midas?

-r

does it do brakes and oil changes too?

[dagosto]

Originally Posted by smopo24

does it do brakes and oil changes too?

You are just jealous.

[warmowski]

Originally Posted by dagosto

You are just jealous.

I'm not gonna pay a lot for this console!

Oh, wait a minute. Yes I am.

-r

[smopo24]

to paraphrase elliott smith:

"if it costs more than three thousand dollars, and doesn't have wheels, i don't see the point."

and that brings me back full-circle to the real topic: break pads and shoes.

[dagosto]

Originally Posted by warmowski

I'm not gonna pay a lot for this console!

Oh, wait a minute. Yes I am.

-r

Good thing the city is footing the bill. I can't see dropping more than a couple thousand on a board that size. I wouldn't pass up a chance to turn those knobs though.

[GearJunkie]

Originally Posted by smopo24

to paraphrase elliott smith:

"if it costs more than three thousand dollars, and doesn't have wheels, i don't see the point."

and that brings me back full-circle to the real topic: break pads and shoes.

I think he also said "wow this knife is really sha---- uh---- uh..... " *dead*

[Nubus]

We had a Venice at Columbia while I was attending school there. Dan Deitrich and I borrowed it from the school and took it to Nevin's Live where we did sound for a show... can't recall which one. EQ was sweet as Hell, and the headroom was INSANE.

Other Midas' at Columbia were a sweet old monitor desk (which was marvelous) and a strange old FOH board which was constantly in disrepair. That FOH desk was madly modified to be a recording board, which probably led to all the confusion regarding it's repair. Truly one of a kind.

There is sort of an obsession in Chicago live sound with Midas

edit - warmowski, were you working for Chicago Sound?

[warmowski]

Originally Posted by Nubus

We had a Venice at Columbia while I was attending school there. Dan Deitrich and I borrowed it from the school and took it to Nevin's Live where we did sound for a show... can't recall which one. EQ was sweet as Hell, and the headroom was INSANE.

Other Midas' at Columbia were a sweet old monitor desk (which was marvelous) and a strange old FOH board which was constantly in disrepair. That FOH desk was madly modified to be a recording board, which probably led to all the confusion regarding it's repair. Truly one of a kind.

There is sort of an obsession in Chicago live sound with Midas

edit - warmowski, were you working for Chicago Sound?

Chicago Sound had that contract until this season, when the city Dept. of Cultural Affairs took over the shows. I worked for DCA.

What did they mod the Midas at Columbia with?

We had a pretty fair run outdoors this season, got rained on many times but no major failures. Lost a channel on a Klark-Teknik compressor that made a sound like a helicopter on a night when while Lollapalooza was bleeding into my mix from half a mile away...at first I thought it WAS a helicopter and I was scanning the skies...hahah

-r

[Nubus]

Originally Posted by warmowski

Chicago Sound had that contract until this season, when the city Dept. of Cultural Affairs took over the shows. I worked for DCA.

What did they mod the Midas at Columbia with?

We had a pretty fair run outdoors this season, got rained on many times but no major failures. Lost a channel on a Klark-Teknik compressor that made a sound like a helicopter on a night when while Lollapalooza was bleeding into my mix from half a mile away...at first I thought it WAS a helicopter and I was scanning the skies...hahah

-r

The mods were done by the previous owners, who were some famous band. I want to say Supertramp. It had been setup for recording, though I can't recall what it was specifically. I think there were various output stages which they couldn't ever get working.

Oh... maybe I was wrong, and they had this live boards setup to function more like their recording board. That seems more right.

That belongs to Jack Alexander... I wonder if he has it working. Haven't seen him in years.