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Penguino
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Owned like 20+ types of preamps (tube, solid state, from aea chandler coil, ..), some eq(Avalon, kush, chandler), compressors (api, summit tla, ssl) , saturators (overstayer, neve 502) and reverbs (bricasti m7, tc 4000, space echo, …) and converters (solaris). Still own some for tracking, sold nearly everything.
Hardware sounds mostly good, and can be useful for tracking. But miles better than today’s plug-in is a lie, especially with new tools like a Massenburg drc2, not even speaking of limiters.
For todays needs and standards, hardware is fun but costly , slow and a pain to recall. If your clients got the budget and time, that’s okay. To each his own.
Pretty sure with one hardware machine and his budget, it will not change a lot for OP.
the op has never once mentioned working with clients or having to recall any mixes so I am presuming he is buying this for his own home studio, when you're in a commercial studio it's obviously different but I'd STILL use hardware over plug-ins even with the more difficult recall, because it sounds superior, I don't find re-call as difficult as other people with analog hardware, you can write down settings or take photos with notes on an iphone thesedays.