What Was Old Is Now New Again

There is no denying that Yamaha has been on the point in sound mixer development for many years, both in the analog and the digital domains.

There PM series of mixers defined state of the art in vca style analog mixers for almost twenty years and their LS9 series of digital mixers is arguably the most popular digital mixer ever built.

Their latest mixer series combines digital and analog in such a way as to possibly establish a new standard, yet again.

Sound pros have argued for years that digital mixers would never be able to duplicate the warm and musical tonal quality that analog microphone preamps and equalizers can produce.  This argument raged for years, but the convenience, functionality and flexibility of digital finally won the battle.  Most new high end mixer purchases today fall squarely in the digital domain.

Everything but the very top end or “bottom of the barrel” budget equipment in analog mixing has been relegated to boat anchor status.

Yamaha’s MGP mixer series combines analog type pre-amps and equalization with digital signal routing and storage to create a hybird that has potential to be the best of both worlds.

If Yamaha is successful with this approach, look for the same strategy to move upscale, just as it did with the original PM1000 analog mixer  thirty years ago.

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