I've had a SR71 in operation here for coming up on two weeks. I'll have more specific things to add when I get time to put it together in my head. I will get out it out of the way and tell you that when available, I'm buying one. I've been mostly mixing at the moment so thats where more of my experience is with it, but I've had some tracking dates interspersed in the middle of this record, in two very different styles of music, and so I've had a chance to track with it on some different things too.
For this record, it is living on the mix bus. Its an organic all acoustic record I tracked a few months back with fantastic, fantastic players and fantastic tones recorded. The comp is not altering the tone in ANY negative way and is working the dynamics incredibly. Often when I have a mix bus compressor it provides a great deal of flavor, on top of working the dynamics. This does something different. Its very musical and three dimensional. Its fair to say that this is partly responsible for how great this record is sounding. If I were to have to give it back before I was finished mixing this, I would be bereft. That said, I asked Larry to start building mine. You know, it reminds me of the extra goodness I got when I had my U73's here. They sadly are not with me right now, since they are sick and being reworked. I don't know where this thing is going next. But I hope I get to hang on to it a bit longer or mine is finished when it leaves. I'll put together the warts and all review later.
Its worth demoing.
Best,
joshua