so we got the control room and booth up and running (still hanging drywall in the tracking room) over at the Olive Tree... The desk is a three-part affair with a RAMSA DA7, my 16ch's of PM1000 strips, a computer workspace and of course rack gear including a Drawmer 1960.
The guy who combined studios with us to make this happen, and brought in the DA7 and the Drawmer, made a guitar amp recording the other day for the first time with the PM1k strip and an SM57.
When I saw him a few hours later his eyes were as big as quarters and he said "dude, I can't WAIT to get that Yamaha on a drum kit!"
says it's the first time he's gotten a usable (and in this case, quite good) recording out of that amp using a mic (Line6 Flextone2).
I don't have much else to compare it to, but IMHO they rock.
I was listening to Jaco Pastorious record the other day, then Blues Brothers soundtrack. That laid-back, airy kind of motown sound like on the Blues Brothers soundtrack and Jaco records is what the PM1k sounds like.