Choosing between an old Soundtracs Topaz 14-4 or Mackie VLZ4 1402. Welcome to the Gearslutz Pro Audio Community! Registration benefits include.
Soundtracs is a sleeper console in the US, and never caught on, but you see them all over Europe. They are fine consoles, with excellent mic pres and very nice sounding eq's. They are built extremely well. The PSU is dual voltage, just get a US standard IEC cable from any radio shack and switch the input voltage from 220 to 110 volts and you're good to go. We have the Topaz's big brother the SoloLogic. Same pre and (i think) eq, with the addition of VCA and mute automation. It is killer, and smokes anything Mackie AHB or Soundcraft in the pricerange.
In addition, they have excellent support, even for the older consoles. Parts are still readily available through their US rep Steve Magalnik (mag212@comcast.net) who will happily answer any questions you might have. Yeah, soundtracs is kinda 'unknown ' here in the USA, except for the few producers and engineers that know there stuff.know about this brand. I found mine on Ebay by mistake! Someone had listed it as a SoundCraft, but by the photos i knew it wasnt.so i did some reasearch on what i saw in the photo, and it was a Soundtracs topaz original! Once i found out what it was, i did even more research on this item on the net, and user forums.and people who knew about this mixer.just raved about it!
Had nothing but great things to say, and favord it over most brands in its class/price range. So i grabed it while i had the chance! Member of the HCAF Homebrews Club Gear: Currently in transition.
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It's a mixer you can use it to mix whatever you want, if it has the right inputs and outputs and enough of them for you then all is good. Some mixers are intended for recording and have 'tape' returns on each channel so you can easily switch from monitoring the input to monitoring your recorded tracks but besides that a mixer is pretty much a mixer.
I just need your advice on something. I am about to buy a mixing desk for dub music.
I m into music for about 14 years, but I have much difficulty choosing. Truth is that I m not only interested in 'right' dub routing, right in/outs etc, but in good / warm sound too. TLA and the 'small' midas models is not my choice as I ve got around 1000-1200 euros to spend on a console. So I am asking for your advice on newer or older models.
My multitrack (will be mpc 4k) 'sends' 10 outs, so i guess I need a desk with 12-14 ins, and 2-4 aux. I m mainly interested in sound in terms of quality, meaning that I won't buy a console that 'degrades' or 'alters' my sound in a bad way, just because it has nice routing, or because it is good for dub! Trigun episodes torrent download. I would like more like a 'flat' choice. Its difficult to find used mci in europe, and I cant judge the newer models of soundcraft / allen & heath cause I live in Greece and nobody has them! I am OFF mackie for sure (due to bad personal history). Also do you think that choosing to record in a 2 track reel 2 reel will 'colorise' my sound, and has greater influence on that than the console, or I should get a descent audio interface and record my mixes in it? I would like your advice in an audio interface too.
(price range on the interface is another 1000 euros) So, thanks a lot in advance I hope you ll help me make a desicion! Since you don't want a Mackie board (which is a pitty cause the EQ is really nice) I would suggest the following: Get an interface with plenty of outs and ins. Do your mixing and fx and such in a DAW and send subgroups of your digital mix to the individual outs of your interface and into an analog summing mixer. Then you record the analog stereo signal back into your DAW and get a nice and deep analog sounding mix with all the bells and whistles of the DAW world. Here are my product suggestions: Interface: Summing mixer: (It's class a, but you can add tube saturation to your liking!).
NguoiDuc wrote:Since you don't want a Mackie board (which is a pitty cause the EQ is really nice) I would suggest the following: Get an interface with plenty of outs and ins. Do your mixing and fx and such in a DAW and send subgroups of your digital mix to the individual outs of your interface and into an analog summing mixer.