Another Poll...What Desk Do You Use...

[rockonin]

Mackie D8B Digital Mixer on version 5.1 Awsome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Sailjunkie]

I WISH I had a Mackie...

I'm using a Behringer 32 channel board. This is the board that landed Behringer in a lot of legal hot water with Mackie. It's a copy of one of the Mackie 32 channel boards. Anyway, it works well for me (lots of sends/receives/inserts) and I only payed $350.00 for it.

 

[legionserial]

I use an old kitchen table as my desk.

 

[Dogbreath]

I use an old kitchen table as my desk.

I used to have my wife be my desk but the hair on her back kept getting in the faders.

 

[Harvey Gerst]

Soundtracs Topaz 32 x 8 in Studio B,

MCI 556D in Studio A,

and SSL 4048-EG+ in Mixdown Studio.

 

[xkapin_reelity]

I use M-Audio Fast Track when mobile and Alesis MultiMix12 Firewire at home

 

[suprstar]

I used to have my wife be my desk but the hair on her back kept getting in the faders.

Jesus dog, didn't you learn anything from that last smackdown she gave ya?!

 

[Dogbreath]

Jesus dog, didn't you learn anything from that last smackdown she gave ya?!

ya'd think so wouldn't ya?

 

[Dogbreath]

"you must spread SuprDude"

seriously, it said exactly that.

 

[dainja]

16 channel Mackie VLZsomething

barely use it though...it's really only so the vocalist can adjust the amount of reverb in her headphones, and for the compressor that's on the mic before the signal goes to the interface

Digital mixing FTW

 

[MessianicDreams]

I don't really know the details, just that the mic pres are designed by Neve and are similar to what he used in the 9098 series.

G.

At the time that Amek made the Galileo they were working quite closely with Rupert Neve. He had some hand in the designing of the Gal's pres & EQ circuitry. They are quite similar to the circuitry used the the System 9098's which RP designed for Amek.

The Galileo is a great desk, but the automation on it is annoying to use. It's very flexible in terms of how you set things up, routing control and things like that. Great tracking desk, great mixing desk. EQ's aren't quiet musical enough for me, but with fully parametric bands in them (4 I think?) there's certainly loads of usability in them.

I've had hundreds of hours on a Gal and the only thing that sucks about it is the computer!!

 

[Bguzaldo]

Soundcraft Ghost, the 24 channel board. It's my first console and it's been a great one at that. Love the 2 sweepable mids, probably couldn't live without (probably the reason I over EQ things sometimes though )

It's a great middle range console if you have the cash.

 

[dintymoore]

The first recording I did (besides cassette deck stuff) was at a friend's Dad's studio I had access to in the early 80's and they had a 40 ch Neve, and all the bells and whistles that went with it. I loved that board.

When I started my own studio, I bought a Tascam M-216 and I hated that thing probably more than any other piece of gear I've owned. Then I used a Soundcraft 24 channel for awhile and didn't like it either.

Around 1989 I bought three Yamaha DMP11's and had automated mixes when teamed up with an Otari MX5050 reel to reel. The Yamaha's sounded great and I still think that they were a somewhat unknown that most people missed and that some people would still like. Great units, way ahead of their time.

Last year I made a passive mixer for less than $100 and I use two Summit TLA-100A tube compressors for makeup gain. That finally is the sound, I'd put it very close to the Neve. Very transparent and tons of headroom. It's limited and uses the computer for eq and compression. It's mainly for pan and adding effects or whatever I want to do. I use a Summit tube eq for eq on the lead tracks.

Man do I wish I knew about that 30 years ago. I keep on wondering if you could make a poor man's version with an Art VLA ll.

 

[noisewreck]

Don't have a board. Don't need one. Although a controller would be nice.

However, if I ever get the $$ and the actual need, I'd probably go for something like:

 

[Bguzaldo]

Don't have a board. Don't need one. Although a controller would be nice.

However, if I ever get the $$ and the actual need, I'd probably go for something like:

Damn, what's the buzz on this thing? I could dig a tube console!

 

[VESSEL2020]

These do me just fine...
one digital-one analog
the digital may be more expensive with more features,
but I like the analog a whole lot more!

 

[Chibi Nappa]

Soundcraft K2 32 channel.

 

[guido #2]

We have one of those TL tube consoles. It sounds very cool. Very .. uh.. thick sounding. The EQ is very useful for sweetening, not surgical repair work.


A cool sounding console for mixing, but imo, too much $ for what it is.

Btw- My mixer in my studio is TASCAM 300 series stuff.

 

[moresound]

(1) Yamaha PM 1800 ~ 24 channel

(2) Midas Venice ~ 32 channel

 

[VESSEL2020]

Soundcraft K2 32 channel.

Nice!...Jealous!