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At the risk of sounding like the old guy scolding the kids with the whole "When I was your age, we had to walk five miles to school. In the snow. Uphill. Both ways."

 

Well, some of us remember the time, not so long ago, when drive rack was not a product name. It was the name of the big rack that housed all of your system control, from crossovers to EQ to delay. But as everything except the truss that holds up the line array is digital these days (and we sometimes even wonder about that), cheap DSP means that what used to take a rack full of gear can now be done by a single unit in one or two rack spaces. You need to control those cool amps and the speakers you just flew? Here are some of your options for total system domination.