[jchadstopherhuez]

i am huge fan of geoff daking's preamps and comps.

currently i am looking to setup a new personal room for my productions, i have a PT mix rig with apogee and lavry converters...preamps from api, daking, neve, hardy, sytek, and altec, decent amount of outboard. i miss having a desk. i was very comfortable working on my old trident 80, and i work on ssl's all the time.

its probably purely aesthetic, and ergonomic...but I need a desk in front of me. thought about a neotek, another trident...but i just dont want the maintenance. i also find that i dont really need more than 16ch, unless i am doing a full analog mix on a BIG desk. that being said...i hate summing in the box..been using a folcrum with my pres...and that helps. so.....thinking about working towards a 16ch daking and build from there. a 32ch daking would be a dream...maybe in a few years.

curious about the sound of the desks for mixing...(obviously i love the pres and eq's) The trident A range i worked on once was possibly my perfect desk...the eq's made it impossible to get a bad guitar sound..and the sound of the 2 buss was EXACTLY what i have been trying to get forever. this leads me to the daking desk. i know the modules are modeled after the a-range...what about the 2 buss ?

a 16ch with some type of monitoring master section would be ideal. then i can have a few faders, and be able to "sum" 16 ch from pt to a stereo bus, have some outboard comps on a few channels, and have some returns for a few reverbs...throw on my c2 and gml and call it a day...

curious if any of you guys have them...what do you think. i know i have seen a few of you out there.

thanks in advance to any and all of you who may be able to give me some opinions.

peace..

j