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Originally Posted by reichman
I've used S3 and S6, and I believe S4 has the same faders as the S3. One of my biggest problems with cheap surfaces is 'fader-jump' where you touch a fader in any write mode and find out that its physical location doesn't match where the computer thinks it is. You hear it. Fortunately, I've never had that problem on the S3, and after a long day of mixing, I'm totally fine with the S3/S4 faders. The other day I was on an S6, and I needed to trim a VCA exactly -0.5db. And I thought, "this is S6, so this will easier than my cheap S3!" It wasn't. It was equally hard to push perfectly to a tenth of a db. A little over, a little under, and then finally...
Nico's right, you have to try it.
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None of this has to do with the faders themselves...its all the driver hardware and software. The only things the faders change is the feel and noise (and even a lot of that is to do with the driver software). Technically you could put the cheapest nastiest fader in a system and control it with an Intel i9 and it sounds sweet ;-)