The meters are post-eq so you can see how much the eq is contributing to the levels, handy. I dig the PFL metering, easy to set trims with it. Right now I feel like they just ruin my kicks, adding ugly distortion and peculiar artefacts. Maybe it’s my program material/settings, but I thought these would be useful for kick & snare smack. I’ve been taught to find the offending freqs by boosts, and the asymmetric Q makes this method more difficult. Does a fairly ok job at eliminating harshness from my AR synth snares & cymbals, but a bit hard to dial in due to the asymmetric Q. But also very broadstroky, not excelling at surgical subtractive eq. It’s “safe” as in hard to make the eq sound bad. But usable I guess, and might work well with certain material.
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They sound quite grainy and without the eq controls, they take too much frequency space. I’m off to the shop to buy some extra insert cables for multing the AR more fully into this badboy. Had a quick play with the 12MTK again this morning. Build quality on my unit is better than what I’ve read from random forum posts, the faders feel pretty good and the knobs, while slightly wobbly, do not feel like they would just break during twiddling. But initial impression is that it’s a decent product and that the DACs on the channels sound sweet (will know in time if this is due to “too much colour”). Just got my 12MTK two days ago so cannot give solid experiences yet. This is ideal for me as most of the time I’m just playing the boxes, and if I realize I have something going on worth recording, I can fire up the DAW and record away without having to move cables or touching the mix controls at all.
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Now I have ended up buying a 12MTK because it works the same, connected to the DAW or not. I bought 8 channels of ADAT two years ago in order to start multitracking to the DAW but quickly realized (duh) I need to have the computer always on to hear my sounds. ADAT expansion can be a good idea, but only if you always involve the computer in your music making.