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mesavox
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Absolutely... gear is overhyped from the get go anyway. Yes, it is better to have good gear, but there is a discussion here about the Sunset Sound Reverb plugin, and how IK is dropping the ball in not having a Sunset sound console plugin. Man, no one ever decided to go to Sunset sound because of custom made unbranded consoles. Sure, they are pretty great, but CAPI is the only company I can think of even making Wally Heider preamps. That Frank Demedio/Jensen stuff is amazing, but it just isn't famous in the way Neve and API are. Probably because they are modified Neve gear in most cases, but people went to Wally Heider Studios, and go to SS because The Doobie Brothers and Van Halen recorded in them and all the records we know from there sound amazing, not because they listed the gear in 20 studios and knew they had to have Demedio gear on their album. lol
Yeah, and not enough emphasis is placed on the room acoustics today, among up-and-coming engineers (professional or otherwise) when they're looking to cop a sound/feel from the past. No doubt the console played a role there, but the rooms played a much greater part, as well as the workflow that the studio configuration enforced or provided.