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<blockquote data-quote="John Roberts" data-source="post: 85054" data-attributes="member: 126">Re: Presonus 32.4.2Al<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":-)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :-)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":-)" /> I&#039;m shocked. Debatable whether it is quite that simple. Console design involves ergonomics and human factors that still need to be executed either using analog or digital technology.&nbsp; Skill in digital technology does not automatically translate into a merchantable digital console. Simple in concept, just like power amps, but execution of those simple concepts matters.&nbsp; I&#039;m probably repeating myself. The Midas had a funny soft limiter built in so that is a special case. I suspect most of the Behringer arm waving is pure marketing feeding superstitious customer thinking that there are larger differences between SOTA preamps than exist in practice. Mic preamp design today if you are talking about plugging in some off the shelf IC is perhaps trivial, because engineers at the IC company have done the heavy lifting for you. who knows? Brand management matters in the margin.&nbsp; Software is never finished. JR</blockquote>

[QUOTE="John Roberts, post: 85054, member: 126"] Re: Presonus 32.4.2Al :-) I'm shocked. Debatable whether it is quite that simple. Console design involves ergonomics and human factors that still need to be executed either using analog or digital technology. Skill in digital technology does not automatically translate into a merchantable digital console. Simple in concept, just like power amps, but execution of those simple concepts matters. I'm probably repeating myself. The Midas had a funny soft limiter built in so that is a special case. I suspect most of the Behringer arm waving is pure marketing feeding superstitious customer thinking that there are larger differences between SOTA preamps than exist in practice. Mic preamp design today if you are talking about plugging in some off the shelf IC is perhaps trivial, because engineers at the IC company have done the heavy lifting for you. who knows? Brand management matters in the margin. Software is never finished. JR [/QUOTE]

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