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Post by brenta on Jan 13, 2020 10:58:29 GMT -6
SSL is releasing two new interfaces: the SSL 2 and 2+ The SSL 2 is available priced: £149.99 + VAT, $229.99 + Tax, €179.99 + Tax The SSL 2+ is available priced: £199.99 + VAT, $279.99 + Tax, €239.99 + Tax At that price point I think I will pick one up for mobile recording. Looks like it has everything I need and nothing I don't. www.solidstatelogic.com/interfaces
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Post by svart on Jan 13, 2020 11:01:07 GMT -6
SSL is releasing two new interfaces: the SSL 2 and 2+ The SSL 2 is available priced: £149.99 + VAT, $229.99 + Tax, €179.99 + Tax The SSL 2+ is available priced: £199.99 + VAT, $279.99 + Tax, €239.99 + Tax At that price point I think I will pick one up for mobile recording. Looks like it has everything I need and nothing I don't. www.solidstatelogic.com/interfacesYeah, I think I might too. Perfect for location recording.
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Post by mrholmes on Jan 13, 2020 11:51:44 GMT -6
SSL is releasing two new interfaces: the SSL 2 and 2+ The SSL 2 is available priced: £149.99 + VAT, $229.99 + Tax, €179.99 + Tax The SSL 2+ is available priced: £199.99 + VAT, $279.99 + Tax, €239.99 + Tax At that price point I think I will pick one up for mobile recording. Looks like it has everything I need and nothing I don't. www.solidstatelogic.com/interfaces
MH this is a smart move if the converters sound good.
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Post by jcoutu1 on Jan 13, 2020 11:58:59 GMT -6
Meh. Specs are unimpressive and get outta here with those RCA outputs.
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Post by drbill on Jan 13, 2020 12:34:03 GMT -6
Firmly competing with Behringer now. How long with that SSL legacy last?? (Think about Focusrite - from arguably the worlds greatest console to $300 POC interfaces.....)
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Post by EmRR on Jan 13, 2020 12:37:08 GMT -6
I need more than two inputs for mobile recording.......8 is my minimum.....lots of options in the marketplace.....
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Post by svart on Jan 13, 2020 12:46:45 GMT -6
Meh. Specs are unimpressive and get outta here with those RCA outputs. The specs are more realistic, less idealistic that others try to push. I keeps seeing in all these threads about "132dB dynamic range" and all that and I keep saying that it's impossible, but yet people keep eating it up. EIN is kind of a marketing thing. It's close to noise figure, but without any kind of reference impedance or level. 132db EIN is theoretically noiseless. -130.5 EIN is pretty damn good if it's really that low. Personally I don't care about RCA connectors. They must have decided to use them for some reason, perhaps because they're ubiquitous in a lot of line level gear.
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Post by christopher on Jan 13, 2020 12:50:28 GMT -6
They say the RCA are for DJ mixers
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Post by brenta on Jan 13, 2020 13:02:14 GMT -6
I need more than two inputs for mobile recording.......8 is my minimum.....lots of options in the marketplace..... I often do too, but in those situations I'm bringing my primary interface(s) in a rack with some other gear. It's a bit of a pain. I don't do enough two track or less mobile recording to justify the price of an Apollo Twin or Apogee Duet, but I do enough to buy one of these. The only other feature I would have liked is an insert point to get a compressor or EQ in between the preamp and converter, but I'll survive without it. Bus powered, throw this and a laptop in a backpack and I can go record a singer/acoustic guitar, rapper, or pianist. I'm sure the sound isn't going to be top shelf but seems pretty slick for a secondary mobile rig or a low end primary rig for someone just doing vocals.
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Post by subspace on Jan 13, 2020 13:33:43 GMT -6
The amount of SSL studios on Craigslist just exploded.
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Post by ragan on Jan 13, 2020 13:43:24 GMT -6
The amount of SSL studios on Craigslist just exploded. I dunno, it's already been pretty high since Waves started fire-saling the bundle...
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Post by drbill on Jan 13, 2020 13:47:51 GMT -6
Haha! Next up : SSL Cables and Guitar strings.
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Post by ragan on Jan 13, 2020 13:58:44 GMT -6
I mean, if these things sound decent, it’s a nice little package. I don’t begrudge SSL for going after the low end market. Why not? How good can business be at the top?
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Post by brenta on Jan 13, 2020 14:26:07 GMT -6
I mean, if these things sound decent, it’s a nice little package. I don’t begrudge SSL for going after the low end market. Why not? How good can business be at the top? Terrible. How many times has SSL been bought and sold over the last couple decades? It's a home studio revolution so they are trying to make products that home studios can use, and, more importantly, afford. That and licensing plugins. If the income from these gives them the financial wherewithal to keep making and supporting consoles then it seems like a win for everyone.
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Post by mrholmes on Jan 13, 2020 14:38:44 GMT -6
I mean, if these things sound decent, it’s a nice little package. I don’t begrudge SSL for going after the low end market. Why not? How good can business be at the top? Terrible. How many times has SSL been bought and sold over the last couple decades? It's a home studio revolution so they are trying to make products that home studios can use, and, more importantly, afford. That and licensing plugins. If the income from these gives them the financial wherewithal to keep making and supporting consoles then it seems like a win for everyone. Yes, and they are very late to that game... digital audio is getting better and better... as much as we all love real gear...dying is just a matter of time it does not matter how famous your brand is.
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Post by RealNoob on Jan 13, 2020 15:01:18 GMT -6
This packaged with ProTools First and a set of headphones - WINNING
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Post by drbill on Jan 13, 2020 15:48:09 GMT -6
I mean, if these things sound decent, it’s a nice little package. I don’t begrudge SSL for going after the low end market. Why not? How good can business be at the top? Terrible. How many times has SSL been bought and sold over the last couple decades? It's a home studio revolution so they are trying to make products that home studios can use, and, more importantly, afford. That and licensing plugins. If the income from these gives them the financial wherewithal to keep making and supporting consoles then it seems like a win for everyone. Who's going to buy a $175k console from the company that specializes in Sub $300 interfaces?
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Post by ericn on Jan 13, 2020 15:51:37 GMT -6
Terrible. How many times has SSL been bought and sold over the last couple decades? It's a home studio revolution so they are trying to make products that home studios can use, and, more importantly, afford. That and licensing plugins. If the income from these gives them the financial wherewithal to keep making and supporting consoles then it seems like a win for everyone. Who's going to buy a $175k console from the company that specializes in Sub $300 interfaces? I agree but turn it around, how many will buy a $300 interface from the company that sells $175k consoles? Plenty, and I’m betting $100K worth of $300 interfaces is more profitable than a single $175k console.
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Post by ericn on Jan 13, 2020 15:52:42 GMT -6
Terrible. How many times has SSL been bought and sold over the last couple decades? It's a home studio revolution so they are trying to make products that home studios can use, and, more importantly, afford. That and licensing plugins. If the income from these gives them the financial wherewithal to keep making and supporting consoles then it seems like a win for everyone. Who's going to buy a $175k console from the company that specializes in Sub $300 interfaces? Everybody who bought a big Avid/ Euphonix system 5 or 6 with DSP😁
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Post by svart on Jan 13, 2020 15:52:53 GMT -6
Terrible. How many times has SSL been bought and sold over the last couple decades? It's a home studio revolution so they are trying to make products that home studios can use, and, more importantly, afford. That and licensing plugins. If the income from these gives them the financial wherewithal to keep making and supporting consoles then it seems like a win for everyone. Who's going to buy a $175k console from the company that specializes in Sub $300 interfaces? Who's buying 175K consoles these days anyway?
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Post by drbill on Jan 13, 2020 15:58:33 GMT -6
Who's going to buy a $175k console from the company that specializes in Sub $300 interfaces? Who's buying 175K consoles these days anyway? Probably only schools. But I was referring to the quote I bolded.
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Post by svart on Jan 13, 2020 16:00:03 GMT -6
Everyone be like "Look at this, SSL has fallen so far from their glory days" as they open up their mixer emulating software that they constantly argue about in threads entitled "which mixer emulator is most like the real thing?" in which 98% of the people in the thread have never been in the same room as a large format mixer before..
Guys, SSL is just trying to stay relevant. They're a hardware company and the mixer emulating softwares have rendered their traditional products all but obsolete. I gotta give them some credit for trying here. If they can bring a device with a much higher base performance to a market saturated by Scarletts, then we all actually WIN here as it'll cause Fuckusrite to elevate their game, etc, and we'll get more performance for our dollars.
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Post by drbill on Jan 13, 2020 16:00:13 GMT -6
Who's going to buy a $175k console from the company that specializes in Sub $300 interfaces? I agree but turn it around, how many will buy a $300 interface from the company that sells $175k consoles? Plenty, and I’m betting $100K worth of $300 interfaces is more profitable than a single $175k console. Exactly. That will work REALLY good for right now. But after awhile, if a name is whored out long enough and hard enough - again, Focusrite comes to mind - the legacy of the name becomes essentially worthless. But, in typical corporate scenarios, get as much as you can as fast as you can and then sell out.
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Post by svart on Jan 13, 2020 16:06:21 GMT -6
I agree but turn it around, how many will buy a $300 interface from the company that sells $175k consoles? Plenty, and I’m betting $100K worth of $300 interfaces is more profitable than a single $175k console. Exactly. That will work REALLY good for right now. But after awhile, if a name is whored out long enough and hard enough - again, Focusrite comes to mind - the legacy of the name becomes essentially worthless. But, in typical corporate scenarios, get as much as you can as fast as you can and then sell out. SSL company meeting 2019: "Folks, we can either keep the name pristine and not foray into the consumer-level market but we'll run out of cash in one fiscal year and we'll have to lay everyone off, or we can develop something that people will call selling-out but keep employing all of you.." Because trying to keep the doors open and paychecks flowing is now "selling out". Cool
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Post by christopher on Jan 13, 2020 16:24:53 GMT -6
There's at least 1 innovation here. The monitor input appears to be a blend knob, so you can use a single knob to blend between input and DAW output. (vid @ 1:50) Seems like a very smart feature for home users. Do any other companies do this?
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