• 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.