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for me, the ramsa board has been stellar. The usual low / hi shelving eqs have ALWAYS been a turn off--in the electronic world more control is needed. The ramsa board is very good for a low end guy like me. It's got me recording again. I actually have control over the elements of what I'm recording! I do wish I had a manual. I feel like there should be some way I can insert on the groups / busses, but can't figure it out. I'm not quite sure of the relationship between send L/R and fx, and don't know what program mix is.
Anybody figure it out?
Attached my favorite synth in the world, the fr 777. Left chan is native, Right chan is Dm-100 delay w/phase inverted (Trying to go for pseudo haas effect, not too great actually). What is nice is that the eq is cutting out low end--80 hz high pass activated, then a few db more starting at 70 hz, rounding it off to for any kick. a dip @ 1k takes care of some resonance problems as well as letting in snares / hats. No other elements in this short jam, but the three band sweepable eq is very very nice. Other eq may be more 'musical' on acoustic elements. I have a chameleon labs preamp/eq and digital. The cl stuff is very nice and really brings out the warmth of the 777. At one point, I was despondent--I had resigned myself to getting racks of cl 7602's and then dealing with whatever mackie I had. With the 820--I am not likely to get more then a few more 7602s...I like their sound on gritty synths and they are worth it for that, though the 820 can do the job just fine.
Digital of course is super clean / surgical etc. I don't feel like I'm missing anything on the 820...it's not as deadly accurate as an itb eq, but I'm good with that. An x-rack of ssl eq may be in the future if I really need that surgical 'scoop this bump that filter this' type thing.
Overall...if I had a choice between a fairly clean ramsa @ $300 or a midas @ $3000, I'd be very tempted to go with the Ramsa. I get the new board mentality: I'm sure as time goes on I'll have to maintain the board more then the venice.
To be honest though, anybody looking for a new board, I would advise them: go used! There are incredible deals out there...a 64 channel otari concept for $2.5k, w/full automation. That is amazing.
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