SSL SiX
The growth and popularity of home and semi-professional studios, which by definition have limited space, has led to there being a wide range of choice in the desktop-mixer market. These diminutive consoles can be ideal for input conditioning during recording and as a hands-on analogue stage during mixing, especially when feeding stem submixes via the mixer.
Small-format consoles are also ideal for portable systems, location work, video-editing suites and small outside-broadcast units. But while there are a lot of mixers out there that fall into the ‘desktop’ category, there are very few options for those who require a compact analogue mixer with the features and pristine sound quality of a high-end analogue studio console. Enter SiX, a new compact mixer from British console legends Solid State Logic (aka SSL).
SSL has been in the pro-audio business since the 70s and its large-format professional mixing consoles are widely regarded as being the best money can buy… if you have enough of it! These beautiful beasts can be found gracing top-flight studios the world over, such as the legendary Abbey
