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Originally Posted by cybeross  So... Has anyone commented on the "anologue mojo" factor of this yet? Is it primarily clean, or does it add warmth and smooth things out?
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Just a wee update - have been happily working with my Zed R16 for some months now. Initial troubles smoothed out - had to find the correct sequence for powering up my Magma PCI chassis, G5 and the Zed R16 (had some terrible teething problems, though to be fair some were down to PCI and firewire bus power issues, some down to adding Powercore to my set up and some the Zed R).
This desk has opened up my mixes - like going from a 20 year-old TV to Hi Def widescreen - it doesn't add colour itself (buy a tube desk for that), but it does have that classy analogue mojo. The creative result of physical interaction with sound is worth the admission price alone. I went ITB for the convenience of total recall, and pretty much in the same way that I stopped using supermarkets for buying meat and veg products some years ago and went back to using specialists (ie butchers/farm shops etc) because of quality over convenience, the same applies here. Music making is about quality over convenience: there's nothing convenient about soldering cables to build a patchbay, but it's worth the effort.
The way this desk has been designed is IMHO approaching genius - the simple interplay between the analogue and digital domain makes this not only a powerful tool, but also a joy to work with. The quality of the converters means I have no qualms about bouncing the stems of mixes down for future tweaking (partial recall?!). The fun I'm having with outboard rather than plugins is liberating.
The inserts, wired to my patchbay work as direct outs. I really miss SIP though.
In short - this desk is the best thing that's happened to me musically for at least a decade...
Niggle: I'm finding I want my aux sends to be post fader/eq - maybe Mike could post instructions on how to achieve that...
Are the new drivers for mac users as well Mike?