Having had consistent success with the APB team’s earlier efforts, it was a no-brainer to order a Spectra-T 40 & 4. Now that it’s here, I am also as impressed with both its features and sonic quality as the rest of you. While we are waiting for a proper case for it from R&R, we were able to take our GT-40 out of its case and drop the Spectra-T in to use it right away.
The feel is that of a more modern and efficient analogue console, packed with useful features like sweepable HPFs and VCAs while not giving up valuable real estate to stuff not essential – like sub-groups. While I’m in the group that passionately hates the single master fader knob since I often use left and right to feed entirely different things different levels, the alternate outs do make it possible to work around this one hurdle when necessary.
Ditto on all the cool jack field features mentioned already, and flipping the jacks so one can get to the locks in such tight quarters definitely blew me away. A very smart console from a very smart company! Will probably order another one soon.