Audio Mixing Consoles on Track for 5% Market Growth Despite Challenges

Audio mixing consoles, devices that blend together multiple sound sources, continue to experience a customer shift towards low-end products, cannibalizing the mid-range market. That’s one of the key takeaways from a new report released by Futuresource Consulting’s pro audio team. On the positive side, the overall segment continues to grow, thanks to the strong momentum experienced by professional audio digital mixing consoles in touring and rental, broadcast, and installed commercial applications.

Solid State Logic (SSL) announced three key new appointments to its product management team as part of its strategy to accelerate the development of new products and updates for current ones. John Hourihane is the new Director of Product Management for SSL and becomes part of the senior management team; Richard Ferriday joins SSL as Product Manager of its Live Sound division; and Andy Jackson returns to SSL as Product Manager, Studios.

Engineered in Switzerland and manufactured in Germany, the uTrack-X32 is an all-new expansion card from Cymatic Audio for the Behringer X32 and Midas M32 series of digital mixing consoles, allowing to record 32 channels directly from the console, without the need for additional hardware or computers.