Ok SSL. Just take my money. Please. (Oh and by the way: The fact that the colour of the lights in the room shifted along with the different preamp-modes, made me unreasonably happy ❤)
Impressive! Looks like you can also mix through this thing using hardware ...well thought out unit, love what SSL is doing these days. They are find a niche and finding new ways to make analog accessible to the masses! We can't all afford 50,000$ consoles.. well done.
@@jimr879 I think he means running tracks through it. All you would need is at least a 4 in 4 out interface and you can send two tracks out to the pre amps and back in.
I was thinking of grabbing 2 of the 4-ch alpha VHD pre but for the use price of 2 I can purchase the OCTO pure drive for the same money my main purpose is just to track into the pres from my MPC before I go into my interface by you having experienced with the Alpha do you see any advantages the pure drives offers??
@@ulyssesbenton9921 I would rather go with the OCTO. It's better to have only 1 unit instead of 2. It's packed with USB, HP-filters, inserts + you don't have to use an external PSU.
I was thinking that as well that is a plus to have, but I don’t have the need for that IO because I have a Antelope Audio Orion 32 Plus Interface I really wanted to track through something that’s all circuitry. No digital components until I hit the interface.
to be honest, the external psu can be a huge plus. It keeps the power away from the pres, which IMO is better and keeps the noise floor dead. @@jeromelester8
VERY appealing release. Especially the 4 channel at that price with ADAT and tone options. Certainly fills a gap in the market. As for the sound, let's wait independent reviews since you could record that Steinway, in that room, with pretty much anything and get a gorgeous sound. But it was beautiful indeed.
Waiting for the SSL daw! Ps, these look great. I enjoy these preamps as they are in my Origin. They have a sweet spot. I find it and enjoy them in what they do best, amplify
Thank you so much, it is a piece I wrote called ‘Fireflies’. A recording of it is featured on my recent album - The Woodland Suite (available on all streaming platforms).
I was just hoping they would release an 8 input rack mounted audio interface and they go above and beyond. The insert feature is insane, I was looking into getting into analog gear, and this makes it so much easier.
Formidable pres of course, and equally great recording. MKH50 mic on the boom for voice-over? In a room with such natural reverb, the result is just phenomenal. I need to try recording vocals, especially rap, in that setting. The natural reverb is just stellar and gives such presence to the voice! Edit : Oh I see the lavalier, makes more sense. Wow that's a real reverb room lol
Regarding using the PureDriveQuad as an audio interface. The User Manual shows a diagram of the ADAT out of the PureDriveQuad feeding into the ADAT input of an SSL12. It does not provide any additional information of how this would be operated. So does this mean that the PureDriveQuad would not use its USB C connection to feed into the computer? Rather, would the SSL12 then use its USB C connection to the computer. Thus, the SSL12 and the SSL12's 360 software would be used to control the PureDriveQuad's outputs?
Same question here! Using it with the ADAT input into a SSL12 or any another interface would mean you're gonna lose the ability to use outputs, unless the interface has also an ADAT out, that the SSL12 doesn't have (as many other ones).
Looks like a great piece however Not sure I get it right…. The 4 inputs on the side are DI right ? not HiZ inputs? Cannot put an electric guitar directly into it? Idk the difference actually😅
When using this as an interface, if you have an SSL 12, can you use that to control the output volume if you’re using the pure drive AES/EBU outputs for DSP studio monitors?
At 6.20 he mentions monitoring with the ssl interface. Can this be explained more? I want to keep the 32-bit recording pipeline but unfortunately ADAT doesn't support that. So how would one set that up? So listen with the ssl12 but record with these new channels. Hmm
So I just wanna know one thing can I run these converters instead of my audio interface converters basically I’m asking can I clock this with the Apollo x8p or rack mount units ?
Just one thing is not clear : With the on Board sound card , can you send out 4 ( for the quad ) or 8 ( for octo) channel output of your daw to mix it with outboard gear ? Or you need an other converter to do it ? I understand there is no monitoring control but it’s not explicit for the outpout control ( when we look on Thomann it’s write : ad converter for the quad , abd Ad da converter for the octo ..
you can choose to source AES/EBU or ADAT outputs from either the internal ADC or from the DAW outputs. So given you convert externally such ADAT or AES/EBU signals back to analogue then yes, you can feed external outboard.
Ditto that. I’m gonna demo it to make sure it makes a difference in sound 1st. I’m already running rme and ferrofish converters if it’s not a big difference in sound quality I’ll probably return it and grab a couple of compressors for my output on my MPC’s. In all fairness the ssl 6 mixer gave the mpc sound a slight edge recording into my interface over just tracking straight into the rme.
So if I’m understanding this correctly you can daisy chain a pair of the quads via ADAT, then turning the insert return on one of the 2 into a total of 8. Requiring you to only need to use one DB25 cable for all 8 input returns?
I don't know who had the idea to mix the. room mics to the lavalier, but please don't do that again -ever. It's very disturbing on a system where you can actually hear it.
