Never thought I'd say this...

[Stig Eliassen]

...coming from a trackball and a keyboard into the ICON world, but I want more faders.
Just got a gig arranging, recording and mixing an R'n'B album, and I have lots and lots of vocal tracks, and the banking makes me nuts.

My 2,- NOK

[Craig F]

how many you got?
from v8 up you can run 2 fader units for a total of 40.
any rental houses in your area?

[Stig Eliassen]

how many you got?
from v8 up you can run 2 fader units for a total of 40.
any rental houses in your area?

I have a D-Command ES (Main unit), and I'm running 7.4. So, that's up to 24 faders, right? No rental houses in the entire country to my knowledge.

[Craig F]

yes, that would be 24

I guess I'm spoiled living in La, La Land
Just about anything is available at just about any time

[digimidi]

One thing you could do is to group certain sets of bgvs together and assign them to a VCA master. Keep your VCAs visible on your D-Command (either at the front of the session or by using tracks view) and spill when you need to see them. Much easier and quicker than banking.

[Drew Mazurek]

There are LOTS of demo D Commands with fader packs sitting in showrooms across the country just waiting to be bought. You'd be surprised how low they'll go.

[Stig Eliassen]

There are LOTS of demo D Commands with fader packs sitting in showrooms across the country just waiting to be bought. You'd be surprised how low they'll go.

Not in my country.

[Stig Eliassen]

One thing you could do is to group certain sets of bgvs together and assign them to a VCA master. Keep your VCAs visible on your D-Command (either at the front of the session or by using tracks view) and spill when you need to see them. Much easier and quicker than banking.

Yes, I could make temp groups assigned to VCA masters, that's true. I'll give it a go. Why didn't I just stick to being a simple musician...

[Logichead]

Custom fader groups are your friend. I'm using a 24 fader D Command and once I put the time in organizing faders I can find channels very quickly. Best..H

[Stig Eliassen]

Custom fader groups are your friend. I'm using a 24 fader D Command and once I put the time in organizing faders I can find channels very quickly. Best..H

Yes, they are very helpful in my opinion too. But it would be nice to have more faders, also in a recording session. I could quickly record-arm, mute and mix while the talent is performing, and that without fiddling around so much.