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Originally Posted by carlheinz  Thanks
Do you own one?
I'm hoping to hear from someone who actually owns an x-desk and how they implement it within their setup. |
I have been using the XDesk as a sidecar ..Ironically people bought small coloured boards for this along cleaner large consoles before, but I have the ATB32 Channel Toft and had 56 channels Mackie before that. I use all outboard pres mostly now , BA1073, DW Fearn, Vintech, Aurora, Gordon, Forsell, Buzz, Chandler, Manley etc.... ....and I have come to a way of working, where I monitor all tracking with the XDesk (through Logic) and even now hooked up one of my Bricasti's to it, and just cascaded the Toft to the unit now. I think the sound is absolutely amazing!. I have found myself using ribbons more lately with astounding clarity and richness without edge and headroom like there is no tomorrow....( I do a lot of acoustic) . To be honest I wish they made a 32 channel version . You can cascade them but you lose aux returns and things..
It only makes sense when you can have all the colour in the world with different preamps, that too many colours ends up being black.. just my opinion. I think the audio under the hood of this unit is absolutely high end. Look at the price, and no pres included, come on....it had to be for a reason.
You have to buy all Dsub cables too. They aren't cheap for the whole set but the sound to me is really over the top. Again my opinion.