I’m an SSL guy from way, way back. At MediaSound, I grew up on a Neve 8068 mixing console. I was a staff engineer there for nine years and then moved out when I became an independent engineer. I settled into Right Track where they had an SSL 4000 and eventually a 6000. I was there for around four years and then moved across the street to QuadStudio. They had a 4K and eventually purchased a 9000J for the Penthouse. I loved that room. I probably spent a good five years there and then I moved to Sony Studios where they had a 5K, 6K, 8K and eventually a 9K. I mixed on all of them and finally settled on the 9K.
I began developing a multibus compression method on the 6K back at Quad studio and had ‘Brauerize’ fully developed by the time the 9K was released. The 6000 had three stereo sub buses and the 8000 had four. Then the 9000 had the four plus the stereo bus. After several years of going back and forth from Sony studios to Quad, I moved to Electric Lady Studios and had Studio B where they had the famous purple SSL 9000 which was the punchiest desk I’d ever heard.
After nine years I left Electric Lady Studios and went to my own studio and went hybrid. But I always wanted the SSL sound, so I used plugins across all the channels. At the time, only the 4K plugins were available, and a few companies were making them. I tried them all and decided on Plugin Alliance because it had a vibe to them. Eventually they made the 9K. As a beta tester I helped tweak it to be exactly how I was used to hearing those channels at Electric Lady Studios.
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