Re: Stage/console layout preference.

"jakdedert" <jakdedert@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> michael gaster wrote:
>> 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

Im a youngin...started doing sound in 91 or 92 cant remember, however I do

remember around '93 seeing for the first time a desk with the masters in
the 
middle... I have only worked on 1 series 4 but have seen others and all of

them had the masters on the end... it seemed that even in 93 many desks
were 
being made with masters at the end, PM1800, Gamble, even in to the mid 90s

MC320x had masters at the end and that desk was ~5'wide

-- 
Michael Gaster
Gaster Engineering