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USING THE DM-24 AS A LIVE MIXER WITH VERSION 2.0 Although the DM-24 is a great recording mixer, it is also very much at home as a live mixer. The simple fact that the DM-24 offers 16 mic pres, 32 mono compressors, 3 stereo compressors, 16 gates, 32 four band parametric Eqs, two effect processors and snapshot recall is reason enough to consider the DM-24 for this purpose. The DM-24 has a MAP price of only $2399. When you compare this price to what you would have to spend on an equivalent analog board and racks full of outboard gear the DM-24 is a bargain indeed. To better understand some of the concepts in this document, you should first read The DM-24 Basics and the 2.0 Release notes. (add links) EASE OF USE Unlike other digital consoles from the past, common functions are not buried in hard to find menus. Almost everything you need access to for a live mix is either on the surface of the mixer itself or one button press away. You can access the EQ, mute, solo and pan for every channel right from the control surface. You can also assign channels to busses and/or the stereo buss right from the control surface. All of this with out ever looking at the LCD display screen. MODULE SCREEN By pressing the MODULE key and selecting a channel you have access to every parameter for that channel on the LCD display screen. EQ, dynamics, aux sends, pan, phase, etc. This is actually much less confusing then staring at 32 rows of identical knobs and trying to isolate the channel that you are looking for. Even on an analog console you are only adjusting the settings on one channel at a time. So the limitation of only being able to view one channels parameters at a time is not a limitation at all. You even get to see the input level of the channel and the gain reduction of the compressor. You can also view and change the location of the compressor in the signal flow between pre or post EQ. These conveniences are what make the DM-24 great.