To download a PDF of the the August 2010 FOH Buyers Guide, CLICK HERE .
Okay, this is called opening a can o' squiggly worms. The Buyers' Guide is on "volunteer friendly" (as in House of Worship volunteers) consoles. As a designation like that is highly subjective, we asked console makers to give us specs on consoles they think fit the bill and then to make the case for volunteer friendliness.
So some of the text in the PDF may sound like marketing-speak, and you will find consoles of both analog and digital flavors at price points of a couple grand up to enough to buy a house in some parts of the country. It is up to you to separate the wheat from the chaff, as it were. And on that HOW-flavored note…