• Trident 80B Decent sonics, broke a lot

  • MCI JH-500

  • Sony/MCI JH-600

  • Tascam M-520 Surprisingly useable EQ section

  • Neve Melbourn Great sonics

  • Neve 66 Series

  • Neve VR This is the one that fried all of its channel capacitors in 5 years

  • Amek M2500

  • Amek Recall

  • Mackie d8b First great-sounding small digital desk

  • Mackie 8 Buss Starts failing soon after installation

  • Auditronics 701 Ed Greene put these in the G-C trucks, amazing sonics

  • Yamaha PM-1000 Boat anchor

  • Yamaha PM-2000 API-style EQ

  • Yamaha PM-3000 Added VCAs, removed sonics

  • Yamaha PM-3500

  • Yamaha PM-4000 Required a forklift

  • Yamaha PM-1D

  • Yamaha DM-2000 Can do everything except add character

  • Yamaha 02R96 Vanilla

  • Yamaha CL5

  • SSL 4000E Grainy

  • SSL 4000G Great mic pres

  • SSL 5000E Odd

  • SSL 6000G Won an Emmy on it

  • SSL C100 Faders begin fighting the operator after a year

  • SSL C10 Same as C100

  • Calrec Q2 One of the greatest desks EVER

  • Calrec S2

  • Calrec Alpha

  • Calrec Artemis

  • Calrec Apollo

  • Studer Vista

  • StageTec Crescendo Oscillator lives in the mic preamp?

  • Digidesign D-Control Big responsive fun-to-work on mouse

  • Euphonix CS3000 Build-a-console concept

  • Euphonix System 5 Terrible

  • Euphonix MaxAir

  • Allen & Heath GS3000 Not bad

  • Allen & Heath iLive Really terrible

  • LAWO mc2

Consoles I Have Known

A silly thing to list, I know, but when a well-wisher on a Studio One forum recently told me I was a dope and should learn the monitor section of a Mackie 8 Bus it started a train of thought about how many desks I've actually had to make consumable product on. There are a few standouts in there, wish there were some 5000-series Neves.