Allen and Heath src 424, any good tonal characteristics?

[detroitdiesel]

Curious if anyone has mixed through one of these. It is a live board but might be ok and have more character than my 32*8.

Thoughts?

[calaverasgrandes]

if by 32*8 you mean Mackie 32*8, then yes, anything has more character than a Mackie.
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[detroitdiesel]

The Mackie is sort of a blank face. Pretty quiet with nice routing but without much of a "sound". Looking for more chunk.

Thanks, DD

[calaverasgrandes]

I tend to love pretty much any and all Yamaha mixers. I am a huge proponent of the PM180 and their other 3-4 rackspace mixers. They arent entirely discrete or anything but they do have some iron in the signal path, and inductors in the eq. They are also stupid easy to mod. I modded mine from 6x2 to 6x6 (well 6 direct outs).
The PM700 is also decent but not as nearly as good as the infamous PM1000.
Though honestly the PM180and my PM1000 pres get less use since I got a summit and a LA610.
Soundcraft 200B mixers sound great too. But like the Yamaha PM stuff it usually wont have real direct outs on each channel, though I do believe they have inserts so you can do the "just the tip in" trick.
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[The Scum]

[calaverasgrandes]

[detroitdiesel]

thanks guys. no need for insert jumps to feed a multitrack machine. I have all kinds of external pres. just need a sweet board to mix through. I saw a nice soundworkshop on ebay. for around 3k.

The A&H was a $400 idea that hit me. I'm going to pass on it though.

Thanks, DD

[The Real MC]

I used to own an SR-416 (the early version of the SRC w/o a pad switch). Nice sounding preamps and musical EQ, FAR better than a Mackie. Mostly for live work although I did record some pretty good sounding shows right off the subgroups. 16 channels wasn't enough so I moved up to a 32ch A&H GL-2200.

[calaverasgrandes]

I've always like A&H, even if they are the Peavey of Britain.
When I was doing a lot of SR work I was always much happier with an A&H board than a Mackie (or Peavey!). Above that I would prefer a soundcraft, but then A&H is kind of better than the cheaper soundcraft.
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[detroitdiesel]

Bought a gl2400. Sounds good. Had it on a session within 3 hours.

DD