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  • We're looking at this the wrong way. The problem is the number of seconds not dividing neatly into the period of the day. You're right, adjusting the length of a second is impractical, so let's look at our other options here.

  • Genuine question - why would the house numbers be different?

    In urban areas, I'm used to house numbers starting at 1 at one end of the street, then incrementing as you go along. Usually odds and evens are on the opposite sides of the street. So the house on the corner will be 1, the house opposite it will be 2, the house next to 1 will be 3, and so on.

    Each street starts the numbers again.

    Is this not the case where you are?

  • I guess it's a function of the kind of gigs I tend to work- The stage tends to not exist before we walk in. And if you've got 32+ stage inputs, it's certainly nicer to run a couple of fibre lines than a chonky stage snake with 32+ XLR lines.

    The only difference between the digital boards you've seen is the digital conversion circuitry is not in the same box as the mixing circuitry.

  • Generally these days the run from stage to mixing desk is digital.

    What you want to avoid is too many conversions. At some point the signal is analog, like strings or vocal cords vibrating. Ideally you'll only have one conversion to digital- say, the stage box you plug the mic into. From there it's digital through foldback desk, front of house mixing desk, effects, recording, etc all the way up to and including amplifiers, which will convert back to high power analog to drive the speakers.

    Having a bunch of other conversions in there - eg guitar pickup to digital, back to analog for the amplifier stage, digital to the desk, analog out to digital amps, all introduce latency and quality degradation.

  • Do you have one? I've seen them used, and I think they've got a lot of potential. If I could use handwriting recognition to work with my Workflowy notes and edit markdown shut up and take my money. However a quick look at the Toltec stuff tells me it's mainly terminals, kernel managers and Doom. Am I missing something?

  • I may have been a little unclear- but you got the idea about the setup. It's actually both- the displays area their own hardware with their own IP, which I access for scheduling power and what not - but the image comes from the Windows machine.

    Thanks again- I really like your idea about the main machine not having a gateway set. I'll propose that to them- Although if that requires another machine on that network, local to the signage, it starts to look like a PiKVM might be a simpler option.