New SSL All-analogue Console Debuts at AES NY 2019!

Solid State Logic has announced their next-generation analogue ORIGIN analogue console at an event held on their stand just before AES NY 2019 official opening!

“This really is the culmination of everything we have put into analogue console design over the past four decades” comments Niall Feldman, SSL Director of New Products.

ORIGIN, which will retail for $49,995 in the US, is all-analogue in-line, dual channel design console with 16+2 buses, E Series EQ and the classic Bus Compressor, for hybrid production environments. The new PureDrive mic pre inherits the clarity and purity of previous SSL Mic Pre designs, that can also switch character to a warm, harmonically rich and driven tone that varies with mic pre gain. The new mix bus and mix amp architecture delivers a low noise floor along with a large headroom for a summing bus, that retains the classic SSL sound while bringing the breadth and space of analogue summing to mixes. Balanced insert points per channel path, dedicated channel direct outputs, stem-ready 0dB fader bypass switches, and a new configurable centre section, make it an ideal way to add console workflow to a modern production studio.

More details from SSL:

As the latest in a long heritage of SSL studio mixing consoles, ORIGIN has traditional analogue studio workflow at its heart whilst providing the perfect partner for a modern DAW-driven hybrid production studio. ORIGIN takes a fresh look at what a large format console needs to do to work in harmony with a modern DAW driven production studio.

The functional design looks back at the origin of in-line consoles for signal flow inspiration, but its circuits are at the cutting edge of SSL’s latest analogue developments. These new analogue designs deliver huge dynamic range and bandwidth yet still have the characterful, pleasing qualities of space and depth that analogue breathes on digital audio.

ORIGIN is more than just the culmination of four decades of technical innovation. With all their deep knowledge of workflow and studio integration, SSL team understands that a console has to provide the immediacy and well-executed ergonomics that will inspire and engage a modern studio environment.

ORIGIN takes these principles and combines them with a modern feature-set that bridges the gap between digital production and analogue console workflow.