500-series Mixer Looptrotter Modular Console

We take a look at what has to be one of the most configurable analogue consoles out there.

MATT HOUGHTON

That analogue consoles are still ‘a thing’ in 2025 doesn’t surprise me, because they make great recording front ends: not only can they provide lots of high-quality recording channels, but they also make it really quick and easy to manage multi-miked band recordings, since the engineer has one button/knob per function when it comes to things like soloing, muting, polarity inversion, and building truly zero-latency headphone mixes. But when it comes to mixing, our DAW software outguns them in so many ways, so many of us feel that it only really makes good sense to bring sounds ‘outside the box’ when we’re looking for the character that specific analogue hardware might contribute. While there are exceptions, most professional analogue consoles released in recent years have fallen into two camps. The…

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Sound On Sound USA (Digital) - 1 Issue, April 2025

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