Ulrich Schnauss

At 2:34 in this video with Future Music Magazine, Ulrich talks about the GL4000 saying "I’ve been mixing stuff in the box for the last eight or nine years probably, and I always had a subjective feeling that the results weren't quite as good as the results that I used to have when I was still using a desk before that. I think the biggest problem is not even so much individual sounds, but when it comes to summing in the end, I always had the impression that the overall sound picture I was getting was lacking sort of detail and clarity and those details as well as separation and presence of individual elements. This summer I was working at a studio where I had the opportunity to use a desk again after a longer period of not doing it, and I just noticed that it wasn't just a subjective impression, I think actually objectively the summing is better in a desk, and that's why I decided to put one into the studio again."

Ulrich's 1604VLZ4 Mixer can be seen at 0:45 in the video