Message 87/144
Date: 19-May-02 @ 04:48 PM Edit: 19-May-02 | 05:01 PM -
RE: high end
well you dont buy an ssl for the eq surely! people with SSL studio's still buy API & NEVE eq's and those can be refurbished or not. But dont think cos a Neve eq is 30 years old it's any noisier or worse than a modern eq unit or channel eq strip. You seem to think old means inferior when the opposite is the case in fact and they can all be serviced too if required. If you had $100k to spend on a mixer anyways in reality the choices might be tough. I'd go for an old Neve or Harrison or something like that everytime & get it automated & bolted on the a patcher for digital or an MTR90 record input, 2" or digital, perfect... track my band to 2" with the option to dump down to 24 tracks of digital and mixdown via some nice vintage comp's & eq to dat & 1/2" Studer or Otari master duplicates. Then i'd have 3 adat's or tascam or whatever 8 tracks bolted together for 24 track dig' multitracking, again with an option to dump to pc for mixdown via a 24 channel adat or T-dif interface...
perfect - all bases covered... 24 track digital record (up to 24 tracks, robust, reliable for tracking) - 24 tracks of 2" for the same but analog, and the direct In to pc option for digital direct to pc for overdubbing and smaller projects.
I'd be happy as a pig in shit then with that setup! - oh! and a Sonor kit & a decent mic collection plus a few grands of compressors, gates & a decent monitoring 'verb.
Mind you those new Jade mixers look awesome... programmable comp/gate in each channel too!!... have you checked them out?... amazing!
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