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Outboard Gear: Investment or Indulgence?
Season 8
Episode 33
Published 9 months, 2 weeks ago
Description
This week on The Pro Audio Suite, the team dives into a question every engineer, producer, and voice actor has wrestled with: is outboard gear still worth the space and the spend? From vintage LA-2As and Neve compressors to Avalons, VariMus, and the rise of clones and plug-ins, we break down:
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- Whether classic hardware really goes up in value
- Why collectors, commercial studios, and voice actors see things differently
- The surprising role of AI in modeling old gear
- When plug-ins are “close enough”… and when they’re not
- Tales of gear that doubled in value (and some that didn’t keep up with inflation)
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