I have my S2 form some time.
The first day it arrived, I burned all that days session on it
But I noticed it the day after
Although it burns, cooks, grills, the sound, it still stays natural.
Next thing I noticed is that its great for monitoring, so my favorite chain now is>> splitted mic signal to 2 pres> 1 pre goes straight to a/d and the second goes to s2, then form s2>1 of the channels goes to a/d and the second for monitoring, that way I have a direct monitor channel and a paralel comp at once
and paralel with slammed soft knee, calss a, burned to 3 o' is amazing
Grilled Drums also are fine but I find it sometimes a bit too dark.
soft 2buss is a must with this thing, I dont remember where I've put my 4000...hmmm.
But enuf of the plesant trip, now lets go to the other side of the moon...
As it gets warmer during the session, it starts to loose its stereo balance, so from time to time I have to calibrate it with some mono signal.
The pots are not precise either, my left pot has to be always about 3-4 bars higher then the right to get equal amp.
My reduction knob is always all the way to the max, otherwise I'd get no compression...and the signal I have for it are dense and hot.
I noticed also the gain is fequency dependand so when i sweep through freq in link mode double mono i see the metters dance with eachother, its posible that makes that extra space also
. Tubes nature.
After 3-4 hours of work my wundersolution starts to buzz very loudly and I have to cool it off.
But still I love it and soon I think I'll grab a next1 to my rack. Couse this is a tube unit ffs, wanna have something stable? Get married!
All good Albert!!!