Hi all, since this seems to be a topic getting some traction I'll tell
you all I can about owning a Console 1. I've been using it for 2 months
now and I do like it a lot. There will be a large learning curve because
it's an extremely visual unit but you can get
by enough to make it work. The bottom line is you'll have to get lots of
sighted assistance to set it up, especially if you're working through
the UA console.
Once it is set up you can save your settings and they will be restored
when you launch it. The nobs are all continuous so you will never know
where you
are which is the biggest problem. You can't flatten out an EQ once you
have turned a nob but you can bypass it with a button. The only way to
get around
this is to actually go back to a preset and come back in but of course
you will have lost all of your settings. I strictly use this on input
signals so
I can quickly dial in some EQ and compression. If you're going to use it
as a plugin directly on a track I believe it's not worth the trouble
because it's quite
time consuming to figure out where you are unless you have someone with
you looking at the screen. As an input stage for using things like the
SSL channel
strip it will work well for 8 channels but it will take a while and some
frustration to figure things out. It's not consistent mostly because you
will never be 100% sure
where you are when turning a nob. There are many menus to scroll through
and you have to be super precise if you want to change certain menu
choices. You can load a plugin but you won't know what you're loading.
Furthermore, it's tricky to navigate the menu whereby you have to load
it so as of now that's
super difficult to do. Lastly
there is a slight delay in the input stage which will be a problem if
tracking live to a click. Be prepared for nudging the recorded tracks
back a few
milliseconds. The low latency has to do with using the UA as an IO going
to your DAW but I'm not
using it that way. I'm clocking the UA to my HDX so that's where a bit
more latency will come from. I can definitely hear a very slight delay
which may
not bother most but it does bug me. As I said, it's very few
milliseconds but it's enough for me to hear a slight flam against the
click. I'm still happier
using something like this rather than 8 separate pre's and the
convenience is worth it. Also, if you're going to use this as a primary
setup as in having
8 drum mic's with EQ, compression etc it will save all of those settings
without you saving it. It does it automatically so wherever you left
everything last is where it will be recalled unless you change a preset
and go back to the original. In that case you will start out flat. I
have lots of high end preamps and have used SSL, Trident, Neve etc and I
can say UA and Softube are the closest I've heard to the original.
The reason I stuck with it for 2 months is because of the sound and
convenience. It would take equally as long to patch in 8 pre's, dial up
a sound and
bus them accordingly. This is all in one tiny unit, not to mention will
save you 20K of outboard equipment. Of course with experience you can
certainly
get a great sound out of almost anything that's working properly but for
the price point I gave this a shot and like the sound. If you get easily
frustrated by things like getting thrown out of windows, your computer
not giving you verbal feedback and sometimes having to tab in and out of
screens you should wait on this until it possibly becomes more
accessible in the future. I don't see that happening soon as I did write
to them in Sweden expressing concerns over accessibility but they didn't
seem very anxious to make that a priority.
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