About to sell my desk and get channel strips

[Red Alert]

I am finally purchasing a TDM system and I will be selling my (2) beautiful M3 Tube Trackers in exchange for my Procontrol desk, however I need at least a few excellent quality channel strips for eq and possible dynamics sculpting. Can any of you make a suggestion as to which channel strips are the biggest sounding? I recently purchased a Focusrite ISA 115 and it is incredible. I have been eyeballing the Amek channel in a box but have not been able to demo it yet. Any suggestions and reasons would be greatly appreciated. I mainly work hip-hop and electronic and I desire to keep the big analog feel that I get with my Tube Trackers.

[Guy Randle]

Preamp/ and or eq units that I think sound great are the Universal Audio 2610, Vintech audio....any of their boxes have a nice color...I have the 473 but they make units with less channels. The original Demeter all tube pre is very nice also. The nice thing about a bunch of preamps vs a mixer is that you can have a bunch of colors. That said, how much are you asking for your tube trackers??? I have been interested in maybe acquiring a pair of those for orchestral work.email me your info
thanks

[Drew Mazurek]

http://www.auroraaudio.net/main.shtml Not quite a channelstrip but awesome.

[masmit]

Also, check out the Brent Averill Neve and Calrec refurbs. The Calrecs are less well known, but excellent, and Averill gets them to be like new.

Mark

[Kenny Gioia]

The brent Averill stuff is great (I have 2) but if you want EQ too, take a look at the Chandler .

At $2100 per channel, I don't see how you are gonna do any better.

Get Distressors for your compression.