Reply To: What’s your favourite mixing console of all time?

February 1, 2023 at 9:05 am #4522
Bob Katz
Keymaster

    Oh, Russ, I remember those primitive times!

    My favorite console of all time is a classic API. Those opamps and transformers were so gorgeous. API sound is not the cleanest in the world, those opamps have a bit of grit, great for rock and to be honest I’ve seen people use them for classical music as well.  But you can modify a classic API to have a clean path and a slightly dirty path, change the opamps, all kinds of things. You can even have a Neve sound inside of a classic API. Make one pair of busses be clean and one be standard API summing. Very versatile. I hate the patchbay layout, though…. Neve and SSL gozouta on the top and gozinta on the bottom is so much more logical than the American way.

    • This reply was modified 10 months ago by Bob Katz. Reason: Updating the facts, Jack :-)