Solid State Logic has unveiled Oracle - A Future Analogue Console, promising a ‘sublime analogue sound with instant, effortless and complete recall and reset across the entire console’, and introducing ActiveAnalogue technology.
‘Since SSL launched the SL 4000E console with total recall in 1979, producers, engineers, and studio owners have dreamt of a console that could deliver the unmistakeable analogue sound quality of SSL, but without the disruption and uncertainty of manual recall between sessions; a mixing console that could instantly recall settings and adapt to on-the-fly creative shifts, while effortlessly switching between multiple sessions in a single day,’ the company says. ‘Now, that dream is a reality as Solid State Logic revolutionises analogue mixing console technology once again.’
With the ability to instantly switch between mixing or tracking set-ups, change the session’s workflow in less time than it takes the artist to switch tracks, the new ActiveAnalogue technology within Oracle significantly increases the potential throughput of any studio facility.
ActiveAnalogue combines SSL’s analogue processing and summing with ultra-precise adjustment and an active recallable control system. Oracle merges the harmonic drive technology of the latest SSL PureDrive mic preamps, the current-driven buses introduced in Origin, and various flavours of harmonic saturation accessible throughout the console.
‘Oracle is capable of producing the beautifully precise sounds of SuperAnalogue audio, to a palette of driven analogue tones, and everything in between,’ SSL says. ‘From an SSL legacy perspective, Oracle embodies the DNA of the classic E, G and J/K consoles, while taking SSL’s sonic signature into the future.’
Key features:
- Large-format, small-footprint, in-line console with up to 112 inputs at mixdown.
- Four stereo mix buses, 16 track buses, 10 aux buses, 16 stereo Flex groups.
- Available with 24 or 48 mono line-in channels.
- Iconic SSL analogue circuitry, controlled with new ActiveAnalogue technology.
- Next-gen PureDrive mic pre’s with ‘Drive’ control.
- Four-band parametric EQ with switchable E/G Series curves.
- Integrated The Bus+ and dynamic EQ processors.
- Flexible channel architecture.
- Small and large fader paths with assignable EQ and insert points.
- Flexible monitoring provides multiple stereo options and is immersive mix ready.
- VU or plasma ‘style’ metering with dynamic Detail View.
- Advanced DAW control with SSL 360 integration.
- SSL Dynamic Automation System ready.
- O-Control app: offline tool for session preparation and console configuration.
- 13U 19-inch rack(s) houses all analogue circuity and can be located remotely, in the control room or under the desk.