
Renowned Soundcraft Sapphyre British EQ with sweepable mid-bands per channel. Iconic Soundcraft Ghost mic preamps with ultra-low noise performance. High-Performance 22-input small format analogue mixers with onboard effects. Loaded with premium-quality faders and flexible routing, the Soundcraft Signature 22 is an extremely popular compact analog mixer! Features: On top of that, this feature-packed analog mixer provides you with 2 channels of USB connectivity, letting you create recordings of your shows right from the board. You also get onboard British EQ, as well as built-in studio-grade effects from Lexicon and stellar-sounding limiters from dbx. Utilizing the same circuit design as some of the best consoles in their history, Soundcraft has packed this mixer with their iconic Ghost mic pres, giving you extraordinary headroom, wide dynamic range, and remarkable clarity. The Soundcraft Signature 22 mixer combines world-class sound quality with state-of-the-art features. Basically, the Ghost was designed to pair up with a multitrack machine and offers in line monitoring like a tradtional studio desk.Compact analogue mixing - your Signature sound If you were runing pretty tightly with a DAW, then the yamaha may have been a better way to go for the integration there. The SOundcraft will give you all the i/o need right away without upgrades, and will be a little easier to learn. In the end, from what you have described, I would probably go with the Soundcraft since you plan on using with an outboard 24 track. The yamah offers a lot more features, but may require some add on cards to get the right i.o count for what you need. The Soundcraft is a budget inline console where the 02R96 is a miid range digital console. The SOundcraft with have a little more "character" in its sound, but the yamaha will be a little more neutral sounding. The biggest thing here is that it is hard to compare these two things because they are so different.
The pots and switches are unfortunate, but in the scheme of things is a relatively cheap and easy thing to buy, maintain and replace. The power supply issue is hard to track down because not everyone maintains them like they should. The biggest problem with them seems to be power supplies going out, and the use of cheaper pots and switches. Soundcraft still cut a lot of corners when you compare it to the nicer stuff, but it is still a fairly solid build. As for the build on the Soundcraft ghost, it is pretty decent. Keep in mind though that there will be a pretty steep learning curve. If you are looking at the 02R 96, that is a pretty good sounding digital desk. Yamaha builds a pretty solid digital console.
It really depends on how you look at it I guess. With digital, when things go wrong, everything kind of goes wrong. With digital things typicall y don't work that way. A pot here and there, maybe a channel here and there etc. The thing is with analog desks, things start to need work in little peices. Either way though, it will still do everything it did when it was new.Īs for longevity and things going wrong, I would almost say that the yamaha might be a little better that way. If you compare to the newest latest and greatest I could see how you might see it that way though. In the end however, I would not consider it to really be "dated" either. Digital consoles seem to get that way just because things change so fast in the digital realm. Analog consoles don't really get "dated" too quickly.