For what its worth, I had a Allen-Heath GL2400 for a little bit, and used it off and on to make home demos and what not in my spare time. in the 3 years or so that I owned it, nothing ever broke or acted up, I never developed a scratchy pot anywhere, and a little while back, I revisited one of those demo sessions, and remixed it on my Neotek Elan, I was really surprised. I thought it was going to sound pretty rough and thin when I brought the mix up on a real board in a studio, but it was just clean and quiet, and sounded totally fine. The build quality seemed a bit better that a Mackie or a newer Soundcraft too. The old Soundcrafts feel pretty solid though, from my experience. I wish I still had it, when you have a small portable mixer (I bought a pretty snappy hard case for it off ebay for $60 new) you start finding all kinds of practical uses for them.
-Kris ________________________________ From: Matt Walsh <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Tue, June 14, 2011 1:59:38 PM Subject: NEOTEK: Neotek supplement? Hi guys-- I have a 28-input Series II and on some mixes, I could use more channels for reverbs, delays, etc. So I am thinking of getting a little "sidecar". Thing is, I don't have the space or money for a baby Neve or even a baby Neotek. For my application, it'd probably be okay to use something like a Mackie 1604. However, I know Yamaha and Allen and Heath-- among others-- make similar compact pretty-decent-seeming compact mixers. Does anyone have any experience with the mixers of this type? Is there a "best in breed"? I trust your opinions more than those of the Information Superhighway, so if anyone could weigh in, I'd be highly appreciative! Thanks! Matt
