Micksch was so satisfied with the performance of Epic’s previous Solid State Logic console and with the company’s technical support, which he says continued long after the console was no longer manufactured, that he jumped at the chance to install System T when it came time to upgrade. He couldn’t be happier with the performance of SSL’s next-generation production platform, he says: “System T has really taken me into what feels like the next century of digital consoles.”
He elaborates, “The I/O count is great; I've got 192 inputs that I can route, I can set up the console for the way I mix the show. I can take individual channel counts from the unique presentations that we have in the main room, and I have a multiviewer television on which I can monitor various feeds both from the presentation and from the cameras in the room. Then I can configure the System T however I need to for whatever the show might be and put things where I need to put them. And the touchscreen surface is just so flexible.”
Audio over IP was still in a relatively early stage of adoption when the auditorium and studio were built a decade ago, Micksch says, so the infrastructure was based on MADI. With the installation of the new System T, he says, “I've gone Dante native, but we haven't updated the front-of-house console, so I'm still receiving MADI over multi-mode fiber and I have SSL MADI Bridges in the system here to convert to Dante.”