Rolling Hills Community Church has five campuses around the Nashville, Tennessee area. We asked their Central Production Director Shaun Miller to try out Tascam’s new SonicView 24XP Digital Audio Console as part of a Church Production Road Test User Experience.
The Tascam SonicView 24XP Digital Recording and Mixing Console has received the Church Production Road Tested certification.
...it’s versatile and could be used for front-of-house, serving for monitors or for streaming.
“Obviously as a sound guy, the first thing I do is push the faders around and they feel great,” he says. “It also features three touchscreen monitors. I think they're seven inches, and that's a great size. So, you can go up there, you can adjust EQs and drag things around, and the ability to put what information you want on there also, I think leads into not overwhelming a volunteer.”
The SonicView 24XP offers Dante built-in and the ability to multi-track 32 channels right to an SD card and then play those back for virtual soundcheck and features a powerful DSP engine. “Tascam has over-engineered this console,” explains Miller. “It uses a 54-bit internal floating-point processor to handle all the DSP, which I was like, what does that mean? Basically, it can do gates, comps, EQs, all the things on every channel all at once and not slow down. Tascam developed a new preamp for this console called the High-Definition Instrumentation Architecture Preamp. I did not expect to be as impressed as I was.”
Miller says it was a very volunteer-friendly console with things making sense and laid out intuitively. He also says it’s versatile and could be used for front-of-house, serving for monitors, or for streaming. “I see it really shining as if you're trying to set up a separate broadcast mix and you could bring in Dante channels or stems or things from another console,” Miller says. “I could really see it being used for online broadcasting. The console comes with an SD card slot where it can natively record 32 tracks with the push of a button. It can also send 32 tracks out to your recording computer via a single USB cable.”
To see the SonicView 24XP in action and hear more about it, watch this video!
