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Soundcraft Si1: Digital Live Sound Console

Recent visitors to Factory Sound will have seen a nice shiny addition to our digital mixing console range - Soundcraft Si1 - the small footprint all-in-one digital front of house console for live sound. Theatres, small venues, Houses of Worship, for either permanent installation or touring applications.

A brand new 32 + 4  channel  Si1, with a 2nd PSU, all in a toursound flightcase has a Recommended Retail Price of $45,000, and more importantly, we spent yesterday getting to know our newest addition a little more intimately. This means we can help show you around an in-store fiddle if you'd like to check it out more closely, or if you're already a fan of Soundcraft Si series, get in touch with us to book your on-site demonstration.

While you're musing over how powerful this little mixer really is, check out the short Si series videos via Soundraft website.

What other teasers do you need?
- 32 inputs, 4 stereo inputs, 24 aux busses
- 8 matrix, 12 VCAs, 8 mute groups
- 4-band fully parametric EQ with high and low cut filters
- On-board dynamics
- Four independent Lexicon processors
- 24 analogue outputs
- Meters for every aux bus

Connectivity
On the rear of this highly-featured console are a host of I/O connectors to cover almost any need. Thirty-two XLR’s for the mic/line inputs, 4 stereo line level inputs, 16 bus output XLR’s, dedicated XLRs for Left/Right/Centre mix output, Left/Right/Centre monitor output, internal and external talkback and Oscillator connections. There are also 8 analogue insert connections which allow outboard processing to be inserted into any input channel or output bus.

MIDAS PRO6 masterclass with Nahuel Gutierrez

We were lucky enough this week to host a couple of great days, featuring MIDAS PRO6. The masterclass sessions were hosted at Factory Sound, in conjunction with MIDAS and National Audio Systems (the Australian importer for both MIDAS and Klark Teknik).

Our presenter was Nahuel Gutierrez, who has worked with a stack of touring acts as PA tech (Beastie Boys), Monitor Engineer (Oasis) and heaps more. Rather than presenting as a company product specialist, Nahuel was able to give real-world perspective during the 2 sessions we ran. It would have been great to invite everyone, but we only had space for 12 in each session. Both days were highly informative, and a great forum for healthy and robust discussion between a bunch of live sound engineers eagar to learn more about the future of mixing both here and abroad.

Of course, Factory Sound TV was there to grab an interview with Nahuel.

MIDAS PRO6 has featured in a few other episodes, so help celebrate YouTube's 5th birthday (doesn't seem long enough!) and have a Captain at this lot: Richard Ferriday talks us through Pro6 in Sydney here, Phill Webb shows us Klark Teknik hooked up to PRO6 at Integrate 09 here, Bryan Davidson shows PRO6 running IrisNet at Integrate 09 here, and some much older episodes with Phill Webb showing us some the 'new' Klark Teknik SQ1S at Entech 08 here, with Richard Ferriday showing the 'new' XL8 at the same Entech 08 show here.