I bought an xdesk.. the Dsub connections are massive spent almost as much money on cabling the xdesk as much as the unit itself.. the a six is cool but your a bit limited to the SSL on board effects which are ok..maybe good but not great. The routing options with the xdesk are massive once you get your cross connections on aa patch bay.. and remember the xdesk was created before SSL was bought several years ago…my xdesk is the center of my home rig, small footprint but options are Massive. The sdesk options was hard to wrap my Brain around..many calls to SSL SUPPORT OVER THE YEARS…to bad they didn’t produce an xdesk version 2.. but I will keep my xdesk until it falls apart or I die…or get rich and buy a SSL duality or Neve console
Yep. Cables, patchbay and head scratching all required (spreadsheet optional but it helped me for sure get the most out of the connections!). Have to agree it’s a fine desk, and unique for its size to features/quality ratio.
B6 is a fancy toy and x desk is a small professional studio console. It’s like buying a golf cart with all the bells and whistles vs buying the frame of a Ferrari. No matter how many accessories you have on your golf cart it will never be a car.
lol. harsh but fair. It’s definitely a case of pro vs ‘pro-sumer’ - but honestly if B6 came equipped with more auxes and adat instead of usb I’d be very happy with it in the context of a home-based synth setup.
@ I’ve heard a lot of people love B6 for synth rack stuff and that seems like a good choice for thst. However for me doing hybrid mixing I could never get down with the B6. No way. The converters are ok the eq is ok the comp is ok the bus is ok. With the x desk (or xl desk) I can use my apogee converters and all my outboard stuff and it works for me. Having 2 aux is limited absolutely but with hybrid mixing I can still use a lot of reverbs on the computer and just have 2 channel reverb stem to the x desk. But if I were mixing 100% analog then 2 would not be enough. I will say this tho. - if I close my eyes and pull up some faders on the x desk, it sounds like I am in front of a big console. That’s the only small board I’ve ever used thst feels like that. The B6 in no way feels anywhere close to thst.
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Glad you enjoyed it!
I bought an xdesk.. the Dsub connections are massive spent almost as much money on cabling the xdesk as much as the unit itself.. the a six is cool but your a bit limited to the SSL on board effects which are ok..maybe good but not great. The routing options with the xdesk are massive once you get your cross connections on aa patch bay.. and remember the xdesk was created before SSL was bought several years ago…my xdesk is the center of my home rig, small footprint but options are
Massive. The sdesk options was hard to wrap my Brain around..many calls to SSL SUPPORT OVER THE YEARS…to bad they didn’t produce an xdesk version 2.. but I will keep my xdesk until it falls apart or I die…or get rich and buy a SSL duality or Neve console
Yep. Cables, patchbay and head scratching all required (spreadsheet optional but it helped me for sure get the most out of the connections!). Have to agree it’s a fine desk, and unique for its size to features/quality ratio.
B6 is a fancy toy and x desk is a small professional studio console. It’s like buying a golf cart with all the bells and whistles vs buying the frame of a Ferrari. No matter how many accessories you have on your golf cart it will never be a car.
lol. harsh but fair. It’s definitely a case of pro vs ‘pro-sumer’ - but honestly if B6 came equipped with more auxes and adat instead of usb I’d be very happy with it in the context of a home-based synth setup.
@ I’ve heard a lot of people love B6 for synth rack stuff and that seems like a good choice for thst. However for me doing hybrid mixing I could never get down with the B6. No way. The converters are ok the eq is ok the comp is ok the bus is ok. With the x desk (or xl desk) I can use my apogee converters and all my outboard stuff and it works for me. Having 2 aux is limited absolutely but with hybrid mixing I can still use a lot of reverbs on the computer and just have 2 channel reverb stem to the x desk. But if I were mixing 100% analog then 2 would not be enough. I will say this tho. - if I close my eyes and pull up some faders on the x desk, it sounds like I am in front of a big console. That’s the only small board I’ve ever used thst feels like that. The B6 in no way feels anywhere close to thst.
Agreed. Well said.