Online Analog Summing services

bitflipper
Sounds like a scam to me.
 
"...analog summing adds separation, warmth, 3d, glue, depth, space  to your mixes."
 
This statement is at best a gross exaggeration of the benefits of analog summing, and at worst blatant propagation of audio myths to take advantage of the technically naive. "Adds separation"? Think that claim through...

sharke
I can imagine analog summing increasing width slightly if it's introducing small differences between the left and right channels, and I get the part about analog warmth and saturation (which could also have a small gluing effect) but I've never understood the claims about "3D depth" and separation. How exactly would analog summing increase depth?

tlw
On looking at the website again, I noticed that they give no address details, no phone number, no indication of who they are or where they are other than saying they're French. No way to contact them at all other than a web form.

Rule one of internet commerce is never trust a website that doesn't tell you who they are and provide their address and other details that indicate the company exists outside someone's imagination. Advertising standards in the EU require companies to provide those details and consumer protection agencies advise people not to do business with a website that doesn't provide them.

If they are EU based, they should also give either their VAT registration number or state they are VAT exempt (usually because their turnover is too low to require registration). They also charge in US Dollars, with no pricing in Euros, Sterling or other currencies a European based on-line business is likely to encounter. Which means both the company and Europeans purchasing their services will face currency conversion charges, which is insane when paying them in Euros would avoid that cost to themselves and their customers.

I'd also be much happier if they had photos of their entire setup, not just cut and paste images of rack unit front panels.

A scam? Don't know. But giving them the benefit of the doubt, based on their website I'd say that irrespective of what gear they have and their abilitybto use it, they are an extremely amateurish business at best.

Jeff Evans
you would think that staying in an all digital world would give the same results ITB or on a digital mixer but for some reason they dont.

"There's one other way to gel your mix, and that's by slamming your 2-bus with the mix. This method allows the electronics on your 2-bus to act like a limiter. If you're mixing in the box, this isn't an option. You have to have an analog 2-bus to do this. Furthermore, not all 2-buses are created equal. The 2-bus on an SSL will crumble in short order, yet you can absolutely hammer the 2-bus on most of the 80 series Neve desks to the point that the meters are pinning at all times as you work."

Jeff Evans
That is rubbish about the SSL being driven hard on its two buss and crumbling in short order. The SSL can produce something like +24 dBu at its output before clipping. So that is 20 dB of headroom over +4 dBu. That is NOT crumbling in short order.
 
You might push the two buss compressor in an SSL in order to get dostortion but if you let that one off though the mixer itself has massive headroom.