Adios SSL

The last few days of May found me, and a few very needed and very helpful friends, packing up and preparing the SSL to be shipped off to its new home. The console was sold to a studio in Australia, and on May 29th a few very strong, very big guys came to crate it up.

the truth is, the SSL was a great console, a great mixing console. but around here, as with many places, we have fully committed to mixing in the box, which is to say, within pro tools.

mixing on a console is something I miss, it just feels so much more musical and so much less technical than mixing in pro tools. I think it does also sound better, however Ive done mixes in pro tools that I like much more than mixes on an API or SSL. The key is just to do your best work given the tools that are available and make sense for the project, and for most people, the ability to quickly recall the mix and make small changes far outweighs the sonic gain that comes with mixing on a console.

It took 4 big guys, 2 jacks, a forklift and a truck full of wood to get the console moved out and crated up for the big move. The crate, as you can see, was as big as a car and the thing weighed thousands of pounds.

The new console - A 32 channel Daking 1112, on the other hand, took me, my brother, and a Uhaul trailer to make its move from LA to Utah. So far Ive been really happy with the new board. It is a great 'front-end' console, meaning it has great mic pres and eqs. The preamps are really wonderful sounding, and when added to the APIs, Neves, Chandlers, Langevins, Manleys, that we already had here at the studio, I feel like we really have all bases covered and then some.

Here are some shots of the control room with the new console -