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grahluk · 13th October 2005

Why would anyone want an SSL sidecar? IMO the virtues of those old consoles is in their capacity and flexibility. When you start shaving that down to less than 16 channels you marginalize the best parts of the console (mixbus, routing). In this day and age there are so many options for sidecar rigs that channel for channel sound waaay better than the SSL and are much more space efficient and do you really need a 16 channel mixer with 32 busses?

13th October 2005	#26
grahluk Lives for gear Joined: Oct 2003 Posts: 554	Why would anyone want an SSL sidecar? IMO the virtues of those old consoles is in their capacity and flexibility. When you start shaving that down to less than 16 channels you marginalize the best parts of the console (mixbus, routing). In this day and age there are so many options for sidecar rigs that channel for channel sound waaay better than the SSL and are much more space efficient and do you really need a 16 channel mixer with 32 busses? __________________ "Wow, that's really exciting and new and underground and authentic. Let us take it and bring it into our dark hearts." -John Stewart on marketing.