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Anybody here have any experience with the Focusrite ISA 430 mkII (Producer Pack/channel strip)? I'd love to hear your thoughts on it, primarily regarding its versatility as a do-it-all channel strip. That's long been on my wishlist if I was ever to upgrade from my JoeMeek OneQ.

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Originally posted by cryophonik Anybody here have any experience with the Focusrite ISA 430 mkII (Producer Pack/channel strip)? I'd love to hear your thoughts on it, primarily regarding its versatility as a do-it-all channel strip. That's long been on my wishlist if I was ever to upgrade from my JoeMeek OneQ.

Yep, I've used one a while back. Lot of versatility becuase of the routing options and it's a great solid state preamp.

The only think I dislike is that it's quite cold sounding - with vocals which are warm in tone and timbre (gospel, lower octaves) it just seemed to suck some of the life out of them.

Only a minor gripe and overall it's a really great swiss army pre (if you get what I mean). It;s also quite good value for all that it does, even though it's not cheap.

@palm - yes, crack theat bugger open and run your drums through it. Do it with phat drums that purposfully need taming to bring them down while crunching them up.

@ry - the M7 is just phenominal. If money were no object I'd only use them. They've now brought out a remote and new impulse patches - they just sound so damn good and real.

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Originally posted by DJ RANN ...it's a really great swiss army pre (if you get what I mean).

Yeah, I get exactly what you mean and that's why I'm so interested in it. I sorta think of my OneQ as a poor-man's 430 because it's also very versatile in terms of front-panel controls, but not so much in terms of I/Os. If I was ever to buy one, it would be second-hand because of the price, but that means I probably wouldn't have a chance to try before I buy, so I really appreciate the info!

A follow-up question - have you had a chance to compare the ISA 430 to the ISA One? The reason I'm asking is that I've heard the One and was impressed by it, so I'm assuming that the 430 sounds similar???

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