Oxygen 3000 is based on digital technology with DSP audio processing to deliver high-end quality, latest features and flexibility with ease of use. Characterized by an elegant design and compact size, Oxygen 3000 is suitable to be used as On Air Console and Production Console.
I do that too.Oxygen 3000 Digital Mixing Console for Radio defined a new standard in the broadcast market. It's a NO if you always work on deadlines etc. It's worth it if you like to work a bit outside the box and it gives a different sound / feel to it. The eqs on the Chilton is also more musical than the clinical eq on my other console. My Norwegian console is clean, near and punchy the Chilton is more typical British sounding.
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It got the same Belclere and Sowter transformers as the Neve series 54xx. I know other people here do too! :D But, that addiction just got me an old BBC console called Chilton CM2/4.
I admit, I use to much time on vintage quality gear. So for me it's worth it when I have the time to actually dive in and use it with all my other outboard gear (compressors, eq, delays etc). It really gives a character to the sound, and just gives me a kind of satisfaction producing music with it too. When doing my own stuff now (without deadlines) I do all my mixing trough it. It's super clean, punchy, got nice clinical eqs and sounds awesome. It's an Norwegian made broadcast console filled with transformers (Lundahl) on every inn and output. In 2014 I got my first vintage analog desk / console. I come from mixing, composing and producing inside the box. If I'm working on my own stuff without deadlines I always mix trough my consoles. I think it all depends on how you use it. All of my consoles were sold off almost 20 years ago now, and I thought that was the turning point. I believe in another 10 years clients won’t know what it is or why it’s there, so now is the time to decide if it gets one more life. Eventually the studio will need another centerpiece anyway (maybe a Steinway piano or giant monitor?). Or if you should pull the plug and not look back. These tests should tell you if it’s worth using regularly, or just for special occasions. Or like a vintage Neve, it could hold up fine. Every console is different, and over the years the noise or distortion can get worse, or there can be bad channels (try changing up channels during the tests). If there is a difference try more tests with different music (some classical, some pop, some rock, whatever styles you work in) to see if it “helps” the sound or just makes in muddy or noisey. If you can’t tell then you can put the snakes away. Then try a blind playback (I like to put the two mixes back to back, loop them both together many times then randomly click and play on the track to see if I can tell which mix I’m listening to without looking where I am.) So take out the snake an hook it up! Shouldn’t take too long to hook up and you can try summing a mix then do a pass only in the computer. If the mixer can add some warmth and meat without noise and hiss then it may be worth it as a summing board, but I tend to think doing more than that will add up to noticable noise. Since you will be using it with your computer the lack of a meter bridge may be a non-issue. They did not offer one, at least not that I remember. The thing they did not offer, which was a deal breaker for me, was metering. They announced an update/upgrade that added VCA automation, which for a board in this price range was really cool. The GS3 is an interesting product - it has a handful of MIDI features, and I believe their automated mute system can slave to MIDI Clock? Beyond that my memory fails me, and I am too lazy to look it up, but I remember thinking it was a pretty cool console - the aux routing was quite flexible, and there was EQ for both signal paths on each channel strip. I would add that if it were me I would not limit its use to a summing box - I'd connect all my analog hardware up and use it as it was meant to be used, treating the computer - at least at times - as a tape recorder.
You may not appreciate the answer, but really, only you can decide if it improves your system.
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