[TheMarqueeYears]

Sorry to be dumb!

But the point of this product (other than a daft trend) just totally passes me by - what exactly are you supposed to do with the 8 faders?

Set them to zero and mix in your DAW ! Duh.

Or stem out your mix and really get into the vibe of mixing on a "baby SSL" with your 8 faders without automation - whoopee, endless minutes of fun!

Summing into a hardware compressor and maybe EQ on the stereo bus, I get and do myself (through a HEDD192) but .....

Nope I just don't see the point on an X - desk, please enlighten me, and don't try to convince me 8 channels of ananlog summing is better than just the stereo bus because I've proven to myself you get the same effect just summing the two bus (= observed by Bob Katz and many others by the way)

The point of the X desk is .... ?

Thanks
TMY