Re: ICON vs Other console for film post
>That facility Widget Post in LA who were on the cover of Mix Magazine a few months ago
Widget is a mom and pop shop compared to the majority of facilities that own System-5 with massive # inputs for audio post. While technically you may be able to do alot with the ICON and achieve huge internal mix in the box track counts, it's not the technical reasons why these products can't compete in the same market. DFC-MPC-S5 = prestige, corporate, major studios ICON = schools, mom & pop post shops, get the job done
Technologically you can say it my be able to do 80% of what the system-5 can do, but so what... do you think it will ever get used that way? NO. It's a lost cause to even argue it. I also don't think the avg joe is going to buy a System-5 or any of those massive consoles, so I don't even know why they were brought up in the first place.
>Thats well over 600 tracks at mix down for 3 x $90K= $270K plus the cost of the ProTools, which you >would likely buy anyway with any other digital console
Many pro tools systems hooked up to the large post consoles have already paid for themselves. The required tracks are already there for the big console companies. Your over 600 tracks doesn't mean anything, those aren't discreet i/o's. Large machine rooms will always have multiple products for target and reproduce: MMR-8, MMP-16, MX-2424, DD16PBPlus, DD8Plus, DADR5000, OTHER DAWs besides Pro Tools. Pro Tools still, but it needs to work with other products. This is a must in the high end.
Technology always changes, and Pro Tools is still very big in north american post but things are slowly changing, economic forcasting shows that large companies will continue to accomodate various other gear that is more cost effective and more reliable than Pro Tools.
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