While these are the first Vi4's to appear in B+B's rental fleet, the company's Sebastian Müller-Eckhard has previously designed installation systems based around the Vi4 (at the local Konzerthaus), and a Vi6 in FZW, a 1,500-person capacity live venue.
"The Vi4 is all about the sound," he says. "It's one of the best sounding desks on the market and you don't need any external hardware because everything is already in the desk - in fact the internal dynamics and effects are perfect.
"As for the GUI, we recently put a Vi4 out to a local festival and the headline band's engineer had never worked on a Vi console previously. So I prepared a show file, sent him a link to the Virtual VI software and he was able to get an impression of how it worked straight away. "
(Jim Evans)
