@kravietz Oh yeah..
Cables.. one of my jobs back in the mid 1970's was as a wireman for the fantastic Trident "A Range" mixing consoles.. only 13 were ever made.
No motherboard all hand wired and waxed cotton loomed into perfection..
I also wired up a few studios..
Now with my modular.. it's still bloody cables all over the place patching this into that etc ;-)))
@gre Yes very nice..
So nice that even today there are clones of the mic_pre_amps and EQ..
However.. it's really when one works the console as a whole that it all comes together..
Well , that's if you've got good musicians feeding it ;-)))
@hindsight I will never forget the first time I heard the output of a really good mic pre. It wasn't even connected to a high-end microphone, just a Shure SM-57. I was astonished. Speechless.
We miced a vocalist with both a 57 and a 58, stuck together with gaff tape, and the 58 was routed to a stock console pre on an old Sony 24 channel desk. Turned-out there was no point in leaving the track from the 58 in the mix.
kravietz 🦇
hindsight
Grace R. Emlin