So what's the general consensus on Trident boards?

[Aloha]

Putting off buying a new console for now. So I am thinking of just renting out a studio for a day or two, to do postproduction work and mixing for the album I am currently working on. Checked out the three best studios in the city and their boards. Looks like it's a toss up between using a trident or a neotek. Never heard of a neotek before. Here are the the links to the studios I'm looking at if anyones interested...

www.privateear.com

www.channelsaudio.com

 

[fenix]

$$$ wow!

 

[ChristopherDawn]

You'd probably be happy with either.

Check that, you WILL be happy with either.


This might be a question better asked in the Rec Pit. Haha.

 

[sjoko2]

Both very good middle-format boards with good sounding pre's.

I'd say the main difference will be maintenance. Tridents can be superb - providing they are given top-level maintanance. If not they can deteriorate very quickly indeed. Neotek are more consistantly reliable.

 

[masteringhouse]

Putting off buying a new console for now. So I am thinking of just renting out a studio for a day or two, to do postproduction work and mixing for the album I am currently working on. Checked out the three best studios in the city and their boards. Looks like it's a toss up between using a trident or a neotek. Never heard of a neotek before. Here are the the links to the studios I'm looking at if anyones interested...

www.privateear.com

www.channelsaudio.com

I've used a Trident 24 with an Otari 24 track for quite a few years. If you can't make a quality recording with this combination it's your own fault not the gear.

I would be concerned more with the 16 track limitation of the other studio unless this is all that you'll require.

Also check out the rooms, outboard gear and most importantly the general "vibe". This will have more of an impact on creating great music than the choice of the 2 boards. Nothing worse than trying to produce a great performance in an uncomfortable environment.

 

[Aloha]

I have already done all the tracking at my studio (recorded at 24/96 using cubase sx) but I like to mix on analog boards rather than in the box. Been thinking about buying a nice board for the studio, but I am putting it off for a little while. So basically I'm just going to take my rig to one of these studio's and use their boards to mix the album I am currently working on. The editing and sequencing is already done and I have 24 outs. So all I'm going to do is plug in to their board and mix away. I have used mackies for this before so I am kinda using this experience as an experiment. Looking forward to finding out if you can actualy percieve an improvement in audio quality of the final mix by using an average board or a great board.

 

[masteringhouse]

I have already done all the tracking at my studio (recorded at 24/96 using cubase sx) but I like to mix on analog boards rather than in the box. Been thinking about buying a nice board for the studio, but I am putting it off for a little while. So basically I'm just going to take my rig to one of these studio's and use their boards to mix the album I am currently working on. The editing and sequencing is already done and I have 24 outs. So all I'm going to do is plug in to their board and mix away. I have used mackies for this before so I am kinda using this experience as an experiment. Looking forward to finding out if you can actualy percieve an improvement in audio quality of the final mix by using an average board or a great board.

I know of several studios that do this with Pro Tools. Angel Mountain in Bethlehem PA for example runs their Pro Tools rigs through an SSL but uses the automation in PT.

Back in the days when I was using ADATs I bounced them to 2" to give the tracks a bit of tape saturation and warmth before using using an SSL to mix. That helps as well. If you're mixing a rock album it may be worth the time spent to get that effect.

Some people feel that the summing busses on DAWs are not as good as analog boards. There was a recent article written by Stan Cotey presented at AES on this subject. See:

http://www.digidesign.com/digizine/techtalk/

In general my opinion is that digital is mostly about accuracy while analog is about character. If you want a characteristically "analog" sound to your mixes using an analog board should help you get there more quickly than trying to simulate it.

 

[lost studios]

IIn general my opinion is that digital is mostly about accuracy while analog is about character. If you want a characteristically "analog" sound to your mixes using an analog board should help you get there more quickly than trying to simulate it.

boy can it be a bitch trying to simulate it...