Hi!
So it’s been a while
I’ve been a busy guy playing around with gear and designing equipment with the help of some brilliant people and friends.
Long story short, I really like using my console as it is built, record through it when tracking and mix when mixing.
I found myself wanting flavour but had to reach for external preamps for that. This made me a bit miffed as I like the direct-ness of just using the board and not going out of the sweet spot for doing my work.etc.
What we’ve ended up doing to solve this is, we remade the 149 and 291 preamp / line cards.
Completely left in tact the whole line section as is, because let’s face it, this is where our consoles excel, but the preamp, its a bit … meh…. Good but not wicked.
…well it now rocks!
A completely new drop in card which functions in the channel strip as expected, the line-in is as the day the console shipped, but has a newly designed class A Preamp with a transformer input. Nothing like those first pres, this is a total new beast! Essentially a new flavour for the ssl which will stand up all day long to an API or NEVE in character, but makes the ssl functional for the outboard preamps duties!
I don’t have a ton of details about pricing and availability but, it is aimed at 1st quarter of 2022 for production as prototypes are completed and vetted!
I’m way too stoked to make my console and maybe yours, a beast in the tracking world too!
have a great new year y’all!
