"The only mixer in the 16-track market designed with the musician in mind — either you people at Soundtracs are musicians or you’ve talked to a lot of people. I’d recommend this mixer to anyone — and tell them that I paid full retail for the 16-8-16 I bought!"

"Well, it's a Soundcraft one-inch 16-track and the little Soundtracs 16-in, 16-out desk which is great value money-wise and for what it can do. It's pretty much the ultimate for home studios and I suppose it's just about workable as a commercial studio. That's my basic set-up, with Dolby Noise Reduction on the 16-track, Little Red monitors and a Quad amp. I don't have many mics, just the UH7, C451 with C85 capsule and a PZM. I've got a few other things in operation, but as it's basically a one-man operation, I'm unlikely to need more than those three mics. If I'm doing drums I have to beg, borrow or whatever. I've also got a Drawmer compressor/limiter and Drawmer Gates - which are the best - and an Ursa Major Space Station, a Rebus rack and a couple of gates and a delay package. Then there's a Dimension D, a TC stereo parametric, Klark Technik Graphic and a Sony PCM F1 for mastering."

"But for the drummer it started a fascination. Next came a Portastudio which Suggsy had "forgot" about and left hanging around the office. Woody liberated that for a while and found it just right for learning more about process and terms. Then the big one: he lashed out on his current Fostex A8 8-track recorder, and a Fostex 350 mixer (only very recently updated by a bigger Soundtracs 16/8/16 desk), plus an ever-increasing pile of outboard gadgetry."

In the Muzines article "The Lizard King" (ES Nov 84), it is noted that David Cunningham's studio setup includes a Soundtracs 16-8-16 mixer. However, it is mentioned that all equipment, including the Linn Drum, is routed directly into a patch-bay rather than through the mixer.

"My first ever home studio had the Revox B77, which I now use as my mixdown machine. Then I had a Teac 80-8 eight track, with an Allen & Heath desk. Then I had a Soundcraft 8 track with a Soundcraft desk, and then I got a Fostex B16 with a Soundtracs 16-8-16."