I am interested to know if anyone out there owns one and can tell me a little bit about it. Thanks

What range are you reffering too? I had a 'D series' which was 8 buss, 24 frame, 4 band eq. It was a good clean sounding desk with plenty of headroom, good ergonomic layout too. My only quibble was with lousy LF eq (fixed freq@100Hz or something). Fixed treble and the two swept mids were fine though.

I was looking into the S series 16x4x2. I'm not exactly familiar with the matrix though. Is it for monitoring during live sound?

Yeah we have one at my work. Its an interface series 16 ch frame console. It has pretty decent mic pre's (for inexpensive console pre's). The EQ is pretty musical, sounding sort of like what the EQ on the small Midas consoles sound like. This makes sense as that when DDA went out of buisness a few years ago they were absorbed or bought by Midas. Midas probably just copied the EQ design. Anyways, the pre's don't have the harmonic distortion that Midas pre's have, and the console is built around this shitty ribbon connector inside, so if you move it alot, you end up opening up the console and fixing channels frequently. Also aparently there were some issues with the power supply before I started working here, but they haven't ever occured since I've been here (a little over a year). To sum it up, the individual features of the console (eq, pre's, routing, capabilities etc.) are solid, but the construction, and design of the internal mechanics, is somewhat lacking.

Let me know if this was helpful.

Nathaniel Hare

a matrix send is to an output what an aux send is to an input... often matrix sends off of groups are used for zone mixing in complex live mix enviornments (i.e. musical or theatrical production.) In a club or musical sort of situation, you might use a matrix send off of your main output to feed a speaker delay line.

does this answer your question?

Thanks that helps a lot!