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<blockquote data-quote="Reid Wall" data-source="post: 49936" data-attributes="member: 1493">Re: So we get new Yamaha desks? CL seriesSo I can&#039;t believe we are 5 pages into this thread and nobody has really asked the important question yet.....Every article I read online talks about sonics and how good the &quot;premium rack&quot; and effects are... Has anyone heard anything about the Mic Pres? The thing that scares me in the video mentioned above, the Yamaha Rep says the Mic pre&#039;s are a mixture of PM5D and M7.... I sure hope the CL series doesn&#039;t sound like a 5D running at 48k.... <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7Lv3OzvLds" target="_blank">YAMAHA CL Prolight &amp; Sound 2012 - YouTube</a>I just did 2 weeks on a Pro9.... Midas doesn&#039;t ever talk about how good their effects are (in fact they are crap, everyone uses outboard)... Midas spent their time on the Mic Pres... Who needs Plugins when the console&#039;s channel strip just sounds awesome! I do realise that its unfair to compare the Pro 9 to the CL5 because the Pro 9 is almost triple the price....We know the usability will be awesome, we know the effects will be ok, sure having a fancy compressor for a few difficult channels will be helpful... But I&#039;d LOVE to find out the CL Series will be the first Yamaha Digital console (besides the 5D at 96k) to actually have top end...I just want good Pre Amps!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Reid Wall, post: 49936, member: 1493"] Re: So we get new Yamaha desks? CL series So I can't believe we are 5 pages into this thread and nobody has really asked the important question yet..... Every article I read online talks about sonics and how good the "premium rack" and effects are... Has anyone heard anything about the Mic Pres? The thing that scares me in the video mentioned above, the Yamaha Rep says the Mic pre's are a mixture of PM5D and M7.... I sure hope the CL series doesn't sound like a 5D running at 48k.... [URL="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7Lv3OzvLds"]YAMAHA CL Prolight & Sound 2012 - YouTube[/URL] I just did 2 weeks on a Pro9.... Midas doesn't ever talk about how good their effects are (in fact they are crap, everyone uses outboard)... Midas spent their time on the Mic Pres... Who needs Plugins when the console's channel strip just sounds awesome! I do realise that its unfair to compare the Pro 9 to the CL5 because the Pro 9 is almost triple the price.... We know the usability will be awesome, we know the effects will be ok, sure having a fancy compressor for a few difficult channels will be helpful... But I'd LOVE to find out the CL Series will be the first Yamaha Digital console (besides the 5D at 96k) to actually have top end...I just want good Pre Amps! [/QUOTE]

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