Re: Stage/console layout preference.

michael gaster wrote:
> "Chas Gill" <Chas.Gill@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
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>>
>> Anyone have an opinion about why there are channels to the right of the

>> master section?  I often wonder about this and the ratio between those
to 
>> the right and to the left.  Have I missed something here?
>>
>> Chas
>>
> 
> I first started seeing this around '93. and want to say it was something
ATI 
> started with the Paragon desk. It serves as a ergonomic function putting
the 
> masters closer to all of the channels on larger desks. later adopted by 
> companies like A&H for visual marketing, as on a mixer that is only
2.5-3' 
> wide you don't need to have a center master... I think the largest desk
I've 
> been on that had masters at the end was a Sound Craft Series 4 
> http://www.studiomobile.com/1624/1624dg.jpg
> 
Huh?  When did you start looking?  I was using desks at least ten years 
before '93 which had the master section in the center.  Even the crappy 
Ashley 24 channel board I had in...1980?...was laid out that way.  ISTRC 
the first Series 4 I used in '84 had the masters in the middle.  Since 
you could swap modules around the mainframe, perhaps some people did put 
the master modules at the end, but every one I used had masters in the 
middle.

jak