Soundcraft Ghost LE 32 Channel Mixer
Designing good audio mixers has never been easy - but with the widespread use of ultra-quiet digital recorders, and improvements all through the live and studio audio chain, today’s mixers have to stand up to closer sonic scrutiny than ever before. At the same time, mixing has become less a process that takes place at the console alone, and more one that involves outboard effects, samplers, and synchronisation of audio and video recorders. It’s a big task for a mixer to keep in touch with all of that - which is why Soundcraft created Ghost, the ultimate affordable analogue recording console.
Ghost LE is a stripped-down version of Ghost, designed for users who do not need transport control or MIDI facilities. Channel strips are identical to Ghost, offering the same superb audio quality and facilities, and all audio facilities of the master section are also carried over. The CPU and its associated facilities, however, are omitted. Mutes can be switched manually, but there is no mute automation or mute grouping, and no machine control or MIDI support. Ghost LE is ideally suited to live recording and mixing, installed sound, or recording applications where
little or no MIDI equipment is involved.
Ghost’s ProMic is the best mic pre-amp Soundcraft has ever produced with much lower noise in the low and mid gain settings, high gain noise
performance equal to consoles many times the price and superior mid gain performance. The sensitivity control is supersmooth for fine adjustment of level, even at high gain. Ghost’s customized pot ensures that the gain range is equally distributed which means that getting the right gain setting is always easy.
Soundcraft have been making mixers for over 20 years, and throughout this time the Soundcraft EQ has remained at the top of the list of reasons why people love their desks, and why top artists rely on Soundcraft technology on stage and in the studio. Smoothness, musicality, and ease of use are qualities that appeal to engineers who use classic Soundcraft designs such as the 3200 and Europa – the same qualities are to be found on Ghost.
With two inputs on each channel, split EQ means you can apply control where it’s needed. Normally all EQ bands affect the main path, but the high and low bands can be switched into Mix B – perhaps to lift high frequencies on a tape track.
