fears confirmed?
Thanks for the replies. My story is this: right now I'm still stuck in the multitracker console world (I use an FD-8) and am thinking about going computer. I don't have a computer, but I use a friend's to add some effects. (I just send out digital to his computer, process, then send back digital to my board.) The two rack fx I would hate to lose are a tube-driven Peavey reverb and a RNC compressor.
So I'm torn. If going computer means giving those things up or going thru mini-hell to use them on mixdown, then maybe I'll be happier without going computer right now.
I have no idea how good basic compression and reverb are on the computer, but I can't imagine digital reverb being as good as tube. And I can't imagine the compression that comes standard on processing software is that great; the RNC is a really nice little compressor.