You should watch the video with Jaquire King, where he's doing a live Recording session using Luna and this API strip in the build in console section.

@@bo3751 Thanks. Yup, its cued up. Tried to watch live but had stuff to do. Let me just say that, Jacquire is UA's Guy though, he's deeply invested (biased). Mike is A UA Guy (and possibly a bit biased), but I trust Mike's ears and advice almost completely. Everything he's taught me over the years, pans out when I try it myself. Not to sound too much like a groupie, but I follow a Lot of different people and sources, Jacquire King included he's great. But Michael White is by far the most invaluable source of anything out there I know of. And I'm subscribed to a lot. FWIW, I've been doing this on some level for over thirty years. Mike is generating a body of knowledge, methods and practices, structure, "how-to" as well as "why-to", a methodical approach devoid of "magic" and "tricks" and "secrets" that you find everywhere else. Kids will be watching his stuff after we're all long gone and laptops can process Algorithms and Convolutions of every piece of equipment ever soldered into circuits. The tools will be virtually free, but the skills will always require training, practice, and experience. Sorry for rambling on, but there's a difference to me at least, between Universal Audio getting Jacquire King an absolutely legit mix engineer, to "present" thier latest tool (/product) to the world, and Michael White, another absolutely legit mix engineer, but not being employed UA (AFAIK) giving us his take on this new system, how it sounds, how it works, what he likes dislikes about it, etc. Anyhow, thank you. I absolutely will be watching JK as soon as I can.

Get pink from AA and be done with it 😀

As tempting as it is to add to my already unreasonable plugin collection, I'm happy with the Lindell 50 when I'm in Pro Tools. It's really more about recording and, given I'm already on an x8p, it's a unison plugin or hardware for me at this point.

Ssl sound is little bit more subtle by it’s colouring, api gives you modern focused mid range little more) have you bought some of that finally? Your thoughts?)

Good question. I love the Lindell 50. But I can't compare it.

I'm in the same boat. I don't have a Console 1, so the American Class A isn't an option for me. I am really happy mixing with the Lindell 50 though. Mike's got videos on the Lindell stuff too if you want a similar overview for that before making up your mind.

@@acmeyakko the American class A can be used native without the console 1. It's a great sounding channel strip. I own it and it works great and sounds very good. But I didn't compare it side by side to the Lindell 50. I just use the Lindell as there isn't anything to desire from it in my case and it has a few more cool features and it got the TMT and that's a huge feature I never want to miss in a channel strip (I use them on each channel) again. That's a winner. Beside that the Lindell comes along with a superb group (stem) channel summoning tool, which makes a great difference also :)

@@nichttuntun3364 I prefer the UA over the Lindell. Plus if you have ua preamps you can use this on the unison for recording. Have only briefly demoed the Softube so can't comment to much on that. The console 1 workflow though is awesome so on that front its more handy. But as someone mentioned the American class A is also standalone. Little I heard of the Softube I would say initial thoughts I would pick Lindell over that but as said number 1 for me is UA.