If you still want a two channel rotary under $1000, check out Omnitronic's offerings.
If you still want a two channel rotary under $1000, check out Omnitronic's offerings.
Or this empath
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Rane-Rotary...n/192387493536
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I would have bought that in a heartbeat if I didn't already have a 2016. That might be my favorite mixer ever.
That being said, rotaries are a strange mix of nostalgia and just fun. And, IMHO, it's worth saving up for what you really want, whatever it is. Despite my 2016, I'm probably going to be saving up for an ARS 4100 eventually. Hopefully before they're discontinued.
What about the Mastersounds Radius mixers?
https://mastersounds.co.uk/collections/mixers
They were designed by Andy Rigby-Jones, the man behind the Xone series
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It's in contention too. Honestly, the ARS is winning right now because of aesthetics....I like really simple mixers at this point. Didn't you guys do an article not long ago along the lines of "Do you really need all this gear?".
The channel-sends are very inticing, though. As is the simplicity of a desktop form factor. If I'm splitting hairs, I've always preferred the flatter rane sound to the mid-forward xone sound, but I'm sure you know it's a very small difference. And, honesty, I'm not sure how the ARS is voiced...considering that these mixers are a xone-designer and a urei-rebuilder...neither one is going to sound bad, but they're going to be voiced somewhat differently.
I don't need one. I still have my 2016, and it still works just fine, has all of the features I really need, and sounds at least as good as any mixer I've owned on every system I've tried it on. Whenever I upgrade, it's almost certainly going to be one of those two...unless somebody comes up with a dead simple all-digital rotary, ideally with at least one built in sound card, matrix assignments, 4-6 stereo channels in, and 2 sends. But, I'm pretty sure that won't happen...I might be the only person in the entire world that wants that.
I need a new home system before I do it though...the Rokits that won't die are by-far the shortcoming at home right now.
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I can see that. What do you have in the loop?
There was a time when I was thinking about switching to an Apollo 16 for my interface and using some of UAD's awesome delay and reverb plugins. I've done things like that with Ableton Live in the past (as an effects processor) and was really happy with the results...it just got to be too much "stuff" to control it all for very little actual use.
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