I am looking at a Ramsa Recording console. I don't remember the exact model number, but it starts with WT and I believe it is about 5 to 8 years old. It has 20 channels, 8 busses (actually 16 by flipping a switch), 2 eff sends per channel, full meter bridge (20 leds for the channel, 8 VU's for the busses and two VU's for L/R), 3 Band parametric EQ per channel (all 3 bands sweepable), individual phantom power on each channel, in line monitoring, phase switch for each channel, talkback mike, 2 phones outputs yadda yadda yadda.....
My question is: Are these good consoles? Relative to say, a Mackie 1604 or my current Alesis Studio 24? I am relatively new to this game, but there seems to be some school of thought out there that says that some of the older analog boards are "warmer" than current analog or digital models. Personally, I have found Mackies to be "dry" sounding in live situations, and found some people's recording mixes to be lacking "oomph" from these boards (I realize that this is VERY dependent on the engineer).
I would appreciate any and all advice anybody can offer me on this.
Thank You
My question is: Are these good consoles? Relative to say, a Mackie 1604 or my current Alesis Studio 24? I am relatively new to this game, but there seems to be some school of thought out there that says that some of the older analog boards are "warmer" than current analog or digital models. Personally, I have found Mackies to be "dry" sounding in live situations, and found some people's recording mixes to be lacking "oomph" from these boards (I realize that this is VERY dependent on the engineer).
I would appreciate any and all advice anybody can offer me on this.
Thank You