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Originally posted by Curve Dominant
I'm imagining something that is ultra-basic on features, but way big on sound. An "anti-D8B" if you will.
Figure you got all the "features" you need in the PT edit and mix windows. Now, you want to mix out that audio and amplify it with some nice warm chocolatey tube-driven harmonic distortion.
Same deal recording into the 001: A small yet fat, warm, fierce-sounding little console to track with. Something you can push aggressively, abusively... maximum rock & roll, nome sayn?
That's what I'm looking for.
It appears to me you're describing the Manley 8+8 here, maybe one of the moderators has tried one? 8 channels of mic pres to track with, and 8 channels of line inputs to monitor through, with a tube 2 bus. Plus, you get an aux send on the line inputs that'll do a separate cue mix.
If you don't need the mic pres and the monitoring channels available simultaneously, Cranesong makes an 8x2 mixer that has nice pres, as well as A/D converters that do a little tape warming trick of their own. It's not toobs, I know, but you might be able to get by with it instead.
On the vintage side, the API 1604, Neve 5315, Trident Trimix, etc. are small consoles with good pres, but they aren't really minimalistic. They have EQ, sends, and bussing, just less than their larger kin. The new "summing consoles" are kind of a different thing altogether, which is what you said you were after, no?