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MCI consoles are pretty standard through the line. They suffer in a few areas though. The Molex connectors used throughout the beasts received the smallest amount of solder possible to keep them on. I once assisted re-soldering all of the connectors in a MCI 24CH console. 2 experienced engineers soldering for 2 days... Whee.
Audio stuff is so bloody subjective. By example: there are people who believe that $7000 speaker "interconnects" are somehow better than 14 or 16ga. lamp cord. I can tell you, with first hand experience, that in double blind listening tests no human has EVER been able to hear any difference in speaker cables. Every professional recording studio that I have ever been in uses 14 or 16ga. zip cord for this. Period.
(End of rant)
As for Neve consoles being extra swarthy for recording... In my experience they sound fine, you have a great EQ section and nice mic preamps in them and the signal path is as good as it can be made in that type of device. Overall though, low noise, non-coloring, easy to use mixers are ALL good. Most recording engineers want the console to not color the signal. They want to do that with inboard (EQs, Compressors, etc) or outboard equipment (Reverb plates, Compressors, etc).
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03-15-2014, 08:58 AM
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