+Scott Howard what do you mean? do you think he doesn't pan anything? they are stems!

Actually a great question. He says he has his stereo mix out of the neve into a stereo compressor, so hes compressing into a/d saving some peaking. Best guess

@@tyoung neve gave me a cool email to this question....:For the 5060, to get the most tone out of it you need to drive it to the point of clipping the output transformers with silk on (or at least turning on the clip light regularly). The corresponding signal level will be around +26dBU, which is far above what an apollo can handle. You can turn down the master fader and still get some of the harmonic content from the internal mix buss and the insert send / return transformers, but the best way is to use an XLR pad of 5 or 10dB so you can fully clip the output transformers without clipping the apollo (some of the apollo's clip at +24dBU and some clip closer to +21dBU, so 5 may not be enough, although less attenuation is definitely preferable if you can get away with it.

@@philipplenz95 Wow very interesting, not what I would've guessed at all. The analog clipping out of this thing is so musical relative to digital clipping. Cool reply, thanks

@@tyoung i first thought i need a better a/d converter like crane, but sometimes it can be much easier :) i have the rupert neve masterbuss comp. As insert on the stereo master. After the xlr pad i ve got the portico tape saturation 5042. In love with my chain now

@@philipplenz95 Wow. That is absolutely an end-game chain. If I udnerstand you correctly, you were worried about a/d out of the 5060 but the masterbuss processor was plenty good? Do you know if xlr pad's degrade signal quality?

I feel your pain. Right in the WALLET!!!