[trashman]

I went through a lot of summing mixers over the past few years trying to find a solid system for mixing. I used api, dangerous, speck, ssl, oramsonics ...and while all were great, they lacked the "mixing" elements that I needed.

I picked up a Midas Venice 320 to give it a run and was I surprised. The sonics are fantastic: punchy, wide and musical.

I ran material through my api system and then through the venice with api 2500 on the mix bus and the midas easily held its own. As I began to use eq and filters the mix on the Midas sounded much better.

The midas has wonderful preamps and great EQ as well as multiple busses, send and returns lots of monitoring. It's a live board for sure, but when used for tracking and then for mixing it is fantastic.

Because the sonics are so top notch, you can easily drop high end EQ and compressors onto the channels (the Midas EQ can be disengaged) and really build out a sweet custom system.

I use an SSL xrack of comps, a few mix bus comps (SSL, API, Neve) and some vintage trident EQ with my board and I'm loving it. I just picked up two FMR RNC 4 packs from Humbucker's music and I've go compression on every channel.

The Midas Venice is the Lynx Aurora of mixing boards .... the mackies being the MOTUs of mixers.

Hope this helps.

I did love the other summing mixers for sure. I know that I will probably ADD one to my Venice system in the future. But for now, the summing on the Venice is wonderful.

There is a thread here with a blind test of the Venice versus the Dangerous system and the Venice was chosen over the dangerous time and again.

It is a great sounding board.

good luck