SSLtech
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So we're a bit busy at the moment building three mastering suites, and hurrying to complete them in time for Christmas etc.
-Some of the gear hasn't arrived... but -no big deal, since it's just one of the two sets of monitors per room and a couple of bits of outboard... All of the consoles are in and powered up, passing signal etc, the outboard insert matrixes are all doing what they should be doing, MOST of the outboard gear is in, we're just waiting for some GML EQ's and a couple of limiters to arrive.
So I'm testing in the first room, and I'm impressed with the low noise floor. I mean these are CLEAN installations! -SUPER quiet. I wind open the monitor pot ALL the way open, to DEAFENING levels, and I hear pure, inky-black silence with the source music stopped. -I'm a happy man.
Then I find myself wishing for a compressor/limiter to play with... I have a Maselec De-Esser in there, a multiband Tube Tech and a Massive-Passive.
Then I realise that I have a GSSl test "mule" in the workshop, so I run over and get it. It's got the Turbo, the C/R/C, the electronically-latched switching banks, the VU driver and I forget if there's anything else in there. -It looked good on the bench, but I haven't heard the sound of it yet, and I'm curious what those noise floor numbers mean when inserted into an impressively quiet existing chain.
So I fetch it, plug it in, and roll audio.
Bugger me, it's damn FINE!!!
-And I really LOVE the interaction with the VU meter! -LOVELY! -I'll have to try and make a video or something... this is a fantastic thing to play with!
Anyhow, for giggles, I switched EVERYTHING in, and wound up monitor pot WIDE open, looking for noise in ANYTHING.
The noisiest piece of gear in the room is the tube-tech. (from numerous previous experiences, I fully expect that the GML will be similarly noisy). The GSSL with C/R/C is as silent as the Maselec, and as quiet as the Manley.
So there you have it. As quiet as most top-line mastering gear, QUIETER than a couple of pieces... and sounds DAMN good.
...and Fun-fun-fun, to use with the VU meter!
A video WILL be made, although the rush to finish all three rooms before Christmas may mean that doesn't happen for a few days.
Keith
-Some of the gear hasn't arrived... but -no big deal, since it's just one of the two sets of monitors per room and a couple of bits of outboard... All of the consoles are in and powered up, passing signal etc, the outboard insert matrixes are all doing what they should be doing, MOST of the outboard gear is in, we're just waiting for some GML EQ's and a couple of limiters to arrive.
So I'm testing in the first room, and I'm impressed with the low noise floor. I mean these are CLEAN installations! -SUPER quiet. I wind open the monitor pot ALL the way open, to DEAFENING levels, and I hear pure, inky-black silence with the source music stopped. -I'm a happy man.
Then I find myself wishing for a compressor/limiter to play with... I have a Maselec De-Esser in there, a multiband Tube Tech and a Massive-Passive.
Then I realise that I have a GSSl test "mule" in the workshop, so I run over and get it. It's got the Turbo, the C/R/C, the electronically-latched switching banks, the VU driver and I forget if there's anything else in there. -It looked good on the bench, but I haven't heard the sound of it yet, and I'm curious what those noise floor numbers mean when inserted into an impressively quiet existing chain.
So I fetch it, plug it in, and roll audio.
Bugger me, it's damn FINE!!!
-And I really LOVE the interaction with the VU meter! -LOVELY! -I'll have to try and make a video or something... this is a fantastic thing to play with!
Anyhow, for giggles, I switched EVERYTHING in, and wound up monitor pot WIDE open, looking for noise in ANYTHING.
The noisiest piece of gear in the room is the tube-tech. (from numerous previous experiences, I fully expect that the GML will be similarly noisy). The GSSL with C/R/C is as silent as the Maselec, and as quiet as the Manley.
So there you have it. As quiet as most top-line mastering gear, QUIETER than a couple of pieces... and sounds DAMN good.
...and Fun-fun-fun, to use with the VU meter!
A video WILL be made, although the rush to finish all three rooms before Christmas may mean that doesn't happen for a few days.
Keith