Of course, there's also the iconic SSL bus compressor built-in! Also, there are four mono aux sends and two stereo aux sends for sourcing headphone mixes and effects sends, along with four stereo return inputs and a full control room monitoring with talkback section. The board has 8 stereo subgroups (or 16 mono), all of which can be routed to the stereo mix bus for multiple mixing configurations. Each channel also offers a discrete FET-based mic pre with SSL's new PureDrive circuit that can work in the super clean 'Pure' mode or the harmonic saturation 'Drive' mode, providing for 32 mic inputs at tracking. Each channel has SSL's four-band parametric E series '242' EQ, one of the most musical EQs I've had a chance to use.
Origin is a 32-channel inline console with both long and short faders, providing a total of 88 line inputs in mix mode with 64 of them on faders. That said, the Origin may be the perfect console for an all-digital workflow thanks to some key features. It was striking in several ways, but most interesting because it was a very analog product in a very digital age. At the 2019 AES show in NYC, SSL's Origin console was one of the most buzzed-about product debuts.
