Alesis Studio 32 (1998) 16 channel 4 buss

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Alesis never approach things in the way you might expect. In some areas they push technology to new limits to bring us, say, cheap digital reverb or digital tape recording, while in others they use old technology in a slightly different way to provide specific solutions to specific problems.

The Studio 32 is an example of the latter approach. While everybody else seems to be striving to give us fully automated, moving fader, digital consoles stuffed to the brim with effects and signal processors, Alesis have instead come up with a compact analogue console to complement their digital tape machines (or any other stand-alone multitrack recorder for that matter). It has to be said at the outset that the one area where Alesis have up to now been less than successful is mixers. Even so, this new model gives every sign of being properly thought out, so it would be a mistake to prejudge it on that score. Similarly, don't let its 'Seattle meets Hamamatsu' styling fool you either: with this mixer, lots of things are done differently from how other manufacturers might approach them.