Have Soundcraft Ghost 24 with Automation Section. What's that good for these days?

[Treader]

Hi,

As explained, I have a nice clean Soundcraft Ghost 24 with Meter Bridge, and that old Transport Automation Section. It uses MMC Midi Machine Control to control any recorder so equipped. It also has automated channel mute, if I remember correctly.

It's been in a box in storage since 2000, so forgive any errors in memory.

But I want to sell it now (I live in Thailand) so I doubt if anyone would want to pay international shipping. But that's not why I'm here.

My question is I'd like to be able to tell prospective buyers if there is any use for this automation section, or is it just a dead weight, useless dinosaur? Can you do anything else creative with it? (I can hear the jokes coming Can it be used to run any modern recording systems (stand-alone or computer based? Perhaps a special interface is needed? If used in a live situation, can it be used for operating a lighting program.

I'd like to tell a buyer at least something positive. I mean it's a lousy place to set your beer!

 

[Farview]

The only thing that you can really do with it is automate the mutes. IF you give it MTC, you can program the mutes to turn on and off a certain times. Of course, you can do this much easier in a DAW. Even when I was using Tascam DA88's, I didn't bother.

The transport control system was horrifically difficult to set up and barely worked the Tascam's. They will not run any DAW program mainly because they stopped updating the firmware before most of them were invented.

Your big selling point for any of that is the mute groups which come in very handy all the time.

 

[Treader]

Thanks Farview for the response. Anything to use as a selling point. It's going to be a hard enough sell here in Thailand where they like their stuff cheap, cheezy sounding, and unreliable.

Treader