I'm glad that it's not necessary these days (for studios to have a large desk). Such a headache, moving, installing, mantaining and paying the electricity bills. But for dub, this is the way. Fiddling with controllers and automation inside a daw is not the same.
MF104, ninja tunes delay, biphase, eventide... nice stuff. I don't know the AMS unit, is it a reverb?
Surprised not to see a space echoin a prominent place tho 🤓.
There's a tube echo out of shot... The AMS is a reverb, we also have the delay but that's in for repair. You're right about the cost. Just maintaining the AMS has been a drama like you wouldn't believe! We send them on an overnight to Neve, about 300 miles away and they ended up in Johannesburg!?
We do a lot of Dub here so yeah the desk will be staying but a hell of a lot is done ITB but there's some processes using the desk is so much better, especially for saturating delays and other effects, it's just not possible or at least it would take fucking hours to automate!
Automating this stuff is hell, because of the feedback being reliant on a very long stretch of the track to be played back. And shortcuts only give you false results. So the real time hw way (and fx printing) is often faster and better in many ways. I often record multiple takes of the echo and then comp it like vocals, or even use multiple takes at once panned whatever way works for the track 🤣.
Sending such a big desk to be serviced is a nightmare on so many levels.
BTW I like how much one can do on a small ssl mixer with no eqs.
Yeah it’s not really possible to get the desk serviced, the cost far outstrips its value! Luckily it’s modular so I can work on single channels. The small SSL sounds great, I’ve a simular set up at home with an 16 channel live desk, it was previously in an art gallery so only ever light use.
