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PM5D·Lokoz·CC BY 2.0Why it mattered
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It became one of the most widely rented digital consoles of the mid-2000s, normalising digital mixing where the analogue PM3000 had dominated.
Pictured in this passage - 02
Recallable scenes and onboard effects replaced racks of outboard gear.
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Professional reactions
Later recollection · 15 February 2006
McFadden was so excited by the sound on her first PM5D show that she stopped thinking about the reduced fader count. She described smooth, colorful sound and an unusually stable frequency balance as gain changed.
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