ESS Audio has placed the first orders for the recently launched Soundcraft Vi3000, with W Sound from Szczecin, run by Mariusz Węgiełek, and Modussound of Sieraków Śląski, headed by Artur and Lukasz Kedzia quick to get their consoles  have the consoles out on tour.

As Soundcraft’s Polish distributor, ESS Audio demonstrated the new features of the console to its customers during an open day that coincided with the European premiere of JBL Professional’s VTX V20 loudspeakers, and included two days of training. The event was supported by ESS Audio’s Oskar Tarczynski and Ed Jackson from Harman Professional.

In addition to the requested access to Universal Audio’s plug-ins (via the new Soundcraft Realtime Rack plug-in processing engine – which also integrates with the rest of the Vi Series consoles), the new console provides an analogue infrastructure via the I/Os on the back and has built-in Madi and Dante, as well as an upgraded SpiderCore DSP and new 3D Vistonics graphics. As well as the Dante/Madi record feed outputs, the console also provides Midi, USB, Ethernet, DVI out, redundant power supply and other connections.

‘The Vi3000 is the ideal solution for medium-sized touring companies such as ours,’ says W Sound’s Mariusz Węgiełek. ‘The capability of the board, the price of the controller and additional peripherals like the stage rack or expansion cards, make it impossible to look at any alternatives.’

‘The immediate driver for the purchase was to acquire a console that would meet most of the riders from the mid range of touring artists – and after almost a month of use, it has been a big hit,’ he adds. ‘The response from our sound engineers could not be more positive, and our Vi3000 is working almost every day, earning us money.’

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Soundcraft Vi3000