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Paul wrote:
I'm old enough to remember all valve desks, and even a fairly small
one had an equipment room full of bays.

Only a true nutcase would go back to that - given it offers no
possible advantages. Apart from on the advertising blurb to the
gullible.;-)

All valve in the signal chain, not necessarily in power supplies etc.

The power supplies took up a tiny proportion of the racks. And most of the
power supply space was transformers and capacitors anyway - how are you
going to reduce those in size?

:-) Saying it has "no possible advantages" implies that all producers
who hear a difference with valves, and like the difference, are
imagining it, which clearly is a rather large claim to make.

If they're looking for a particular 'old' sound, then perhaps. But you
could do this with an FX rack anyway - not the entire fooking desk. And
just how many studios could find full time work for a valve desk - given
the horrendous cost of building a half decent one?

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