Alrighty!
So after demoing the ION board here are my thoughts…
Essentially the ION is what we call a tracking board, so if you are programming a cue it would look like this…
Cue 1
1 – 50
2 – 0
3 – 75
Cue 2
2 – 25
Cue 3
3 – 0
So you can tell anything that is done in Cue 1 carries over unless it’s changed in a later cue for example Channel 2 changing from 0 to 25%. Now this is basically the biggest difference for us, we are not used to a board like this. The board that would be equivelent to what we are used to would be the congo which is a preset style controller so a cue list would look like this…
Cue 1
1 50
2 0
3 75
Cue 2
1 50
2 25
3 75
Cue 3
1 50
2 25
3 0
So notice how you can to put everything in one cue, it doesn’t carry over at all. So the big question is what is best for us?
If both the Ion and Congo seem like not the right choice still, others to look at are the Jands Vista I3, High End Whole Hog III.
