Soundcraft SI Expression 3

14 August 2013 | 9:00 am | Barry Gilmour

The fader channels illuminate in different colours to organise FX, Stereo, Linked Mono, GEQ, POST Fade Aux, and PRE Fade Aux, there is a BSS GEQ on every bus for plenty of processing and a nice clear touch screen.

In the ever-expanding world of digital mixing consoles, it's a wonder each manufacturer doesn't have a university course for their proprietary operating systems. It's imperative therefore that any new digital consoles on the market be as user-friendly and intuitive as possible before anything else. That's where the Soundcraft Si Expression 3 comes in, a neat package, with a true everything everywhere set-up. The effects are hardware-based and the console has internal Lexicon hardware with a variety of effects. Above each channel is a rotary knob, which can be gain, HPF or pan, and each button is just as it would be on an analogue mixer, one function per control. The fader channels illuminate in different colours to organise FX, Stereo, Linked Mono, GEQ, POST Fade Aux, and PRE Fade Aux, there is a BSS GEQ on every bus for plenty of processing and a nice clear touch screen.