bigaudioblowhard wrote on Sat, 15 January 2011 18:08 |
I will never get over the Nazi Submarine look of the SHMC, and its a dream to operate. I don't even look at it. I keep my head up in the soundfield. Its laid out perfectly and I always know which controls I'm holding onto. Those big knobs and switches just feel so good and solid as I smoothly click...click...click 'em.
"Herr Capitain, fir limitschwein zulage!"
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Mark -
Sorry to seemingly bad mouth your baby - but sounds to me like you've been watching "Das Boot" a bit too much. Guess the Hebrew in me feels much more sympathy with something like the flashy British sports car finish of my Focusrite Blue more than say, "German submarine."
Anyway - to be much more fair about it my time spent with the SHMC has been very limited and just at a couple of AES's (which is obviously not a good place to make an evaluation beyond superficialities). But after initially going ooh and aah at it's steam-punk vibe as soon as I started grabbing knobs and trying to get some sounds I felt pretty disoriented - it just didn't feel intuitive to me at all. I kind of prefer things much more straight forward and without steeper learning curves (i.e. a reason why I rarely use things like the Flux Limiter either). Coupled with longer wait times to get one, steeper pricing than I usually like (everything here is either 2nd hand or offers excellent bang for buck), along with occasional reports of problems with the build or obtaining quick service - has made me definitely shy away with it.
Anyway - I was just noting that John - who has seemingly owned nearly every model of mastering comp at one point or another - had one for a while but then sold it (and seems to have ended up with the Maselec and Foote Designs comps instead). However - if you are getting great use out of yours and in fact hold it dear then obviously other folks can end up with completely opposite opinions!!
And to everyone else -
Sorry for my small kidnap of this thread!
Best regards,
Steve Berson