During the height of summer tour season, while sitting in the shop trying to figure out routing on a new digital console, one’s thoughts often drift back to those good old days. You know, when computers were used to type a letter, networks were related to TV programs and live sound was much simpler. Outboard processing was in heavy physical racks, and you ran real patch cords to hook it all together… from your memory. Ahh, the good ole days of slogging that 300’ 56 channel analog copper snake through a mud filled venue trough only to find out it was six feet too short to reach the stage. Hometown Hero nominations are already open and Parnelli and Indispensable Technology “IT” award nominations are coming soon, and voting for each is happening this fall.