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13th September 2010
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| Lives for gear Joined: Jul 2006
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Thread Starter |  New Midas Venice F-16 series
Don't know who's seen these but they look pretty hot. If the sonics are as good as the current models and the features are better at a reasonable price, this is a win for everyone, like me, who likes these boards.
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13th September 2010
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| Lives for gear  Joined: Jul 2003 Location: Austria
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Looks nice, especially the 100mm faders.
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13th September 2010
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| Gear addict  Joined: Mar 2008
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Wow. I wonder if it's made in the same factory as the previous Venice. I believe it's a Bosch factory in Germany. I love the old Venice. Built like a tank and great sounding. Hope this isn't from the Behringer factory... 
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13th September 2010
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13th September 2010
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reminds me that I would love to see more midas desks live..... why does everybody buy rahter crappy low-end mixers if they could rent the good stuff and get much better overall results?  |
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13th September 2010
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| Gear addict Joined: Mar 2008
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(Please no "what's wrong with china" replies, thanx.) | |
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13th September 2010
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| 3 + infractions, forum membership suspended. Joined: Aug 2008
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32x32 firewire : interesting!!!!!
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13th September 2010
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| Lives for gear  Joined: Dec 2005 Location: H City
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| Midas Venice F-series
How much is it?
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13th September 2010
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| Lives for gear Joined: Jul 2006
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afaik they haven't sent out a press release yet with pricing. A contact at Midas North America alerted me as soon as they posted the web page. I've asked some questions about price, availability, manual, is Firewire built-in or an option, etc. I'll pass on what I learn. The preamps are apparently "new". I don't know if that's good or bad. I have a Venice 160 and the preamps are great. |
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13th September 2010
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| Gear maniac  Joined: Nov 2007 Location: London, UK
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They're at PLASA at the moment. I'll get some info tomorrow... Any other questions? |
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14th September 2010
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14th September 2010
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| Gear Head  Joined: Feb 2008 Location: Hamburg, Germany
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that´s what i call an audio interface. the new mbox from midas. WOW! Can´t wait for the converter specs..and the price. Hope the drivers will be stable otherwise we have to keep the old venice plus rme setups ?...
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14th September 2010
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| Lives for gear  Joined: Feb 2009 Location: VT
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| Re: Midas Venice F-series
Looks good! Better metering would have been nice. Any price estimates and yes what about the converters. Posted via the Gearslutz iPhone app |
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16th September 2010
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| Lives for gear  Joined: Mar 2003 Location: Palma+Stuttgart
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Bumping this. Anybody has some newer info? I was about to get one of the old Venices as a swiss-army-knife tool and was very dissapointed when told they were discountinued. But this F version is just too good. The Venices were great little consoles with high-class sonics and a staple in many first class studios for their C/D/writing rooms, not mentioning hundreds of small theaters and venues. Now with 100mm faders, XL3 parametric EQ and the better routing, ergonomics and layout what was great turned into something even better. I don't expect much from the firewire and A/D/A converters to be honest, but hope the pres are not worse and Behringer had nothing to do with the new mixer (other than financial support), so it's still built to the same MIDAS specs and reliability. |
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16th September 2010
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| Lives for gear  Joined: Apr 2005 Location: UK
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16th September 2010
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| Gear Head Joined: Feb 2008 Location: Hamburg, Germany
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I just saw that my old venice 160 has 4 faders for the monitor sends 1 2 and fx 1 2 returns. But the new one has one yellow masterfader more...I think this could be the mono out. Not important but different. When I would start again I would just choose an Thinkad w510 quad core notebook, a good daw, this venicef and something for the master inserts. Ready  |
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17th September 2010
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| Lives for gear Joined: Mar 2003 Location: Las Vegas
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wow, I've got the "I want it" syndrome now. I wonder how much? |
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18th September 2010
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I hate it!!!!  I want one! |
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18th September 2010
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| Lives for gear Joined: Jul 2006
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I just noticed that the new 16ch VeniceF-16 weighs 51.8lbs/23.5kg and the Venice160 weighs 36.2lbs/16.2kgs. It seems that the parts are not being reduced or downgraded and that gives me hope that the Venice line will continue to have excellent sonics. And here's another indicator; it will have four band XL3 EQ with sweep and Q controls on the midbands. |
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18th September 2010
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| Gear addict  Joined: Nov 2005 Location: Leesburg VA and Nashville TN
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Any updates? Thanks, Rob | |
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18th September 2010
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| Gear maniac  Joined: Jan 2006 Location: Luton
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The guy said it will be around 3500 - 3700 GBP
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18th September 2010
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| Lives for gear  Joined: Sep 2006 Location: El-Lay
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which version? | |
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19th September 2010
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19th September 2010
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| Gear maniac  Joined: Aug 2005 Location: Switzerland
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what about latency if you would use firewire option and plugins as inserts in a live situation?
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19th September 2010
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19th September 2010
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19th September 2010
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| Lives for gear  Joined: Nov 2005 Location: Kansas City
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19th September 2010
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I said what I said because everything I used from Midas/Klark sounded good and was VERY well built. I used from Venice to XLs on FOH and I really liked. Now with Behringer in command... I don't know anymore. | |
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19th September 2010
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| Lives for gear Joined: Jul 2006
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This redesign looks like a winner. It has XL4 EQs. It has per-ch phase invert. They say buss structure remains intact. It has 100mm faders. The F16 model weighs 16lbs/7kgs more than the Venice 160. I can't wait to hear it! | |
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20th September 2010
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Imagine summing your mixes through it and adding it's EQ as well.  |
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