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«  It has everything a great »

Published on 08/09/12 at 23:16
yes it is rack mountable, but beware, the plugs are underneath, it takes a fly with a tilt rack console to make connections from below.

20 channels, 6 to, 4 subgroups, LCR outputs, and the whole lot in XLR, there are even opportunities to put inserts on everything, including the master, and the subgroups, the routing is very comprehensive for a compact analog .

UTILIZATION

Very simple, with phantom and phase inverter for each, it's a console, modular, with a map, a slice. You can even connect two cascaded with a cable to connect pin 5 dyn buses between them ....

SOUNDS

So here we are in good console preamps are monstrous, as the EQ, and 100mm faders are, in short, a nice little console, versatile, pro quality, and comprehensive. The problem are the outputs, which are very fragile. Be careful when making connections, the connectors are on the underside of the beast, was not to force the xlr, on pain of having to re-open the seams of XLR output sockets, it's really the only flaw in this pretty little granny.

OVERALL OPINION

4 years in benefits (3 failures on outs, this is starting to do well)
I think it has had its day in benefits, and can even save your life, in small config, the sound is simply stunning: it is in a class of its a MH soundcraft, that of a mackie anemic with all its cardboard. Fiablité on its output is not really solid (problème..) His place is better for the studio because the grain and EQ are just perfect, and we avoid too much travel with .... In fixed she's great.