Trident Series 88 Console - 88-40 is the flagship 40-channel configuration of the Trident 88 — a professional-grade fully analog mixing console designed for large recording studios running extensive multitrack sessions. The Trident 88 carries forward the design philosophy of classic Trident consoles, maintaining the sonic character of the analog signal path while delivering the routing depth and ergonomics required by contemporary music and film production.
40-channel architecture and routing in large-format sessions
Forty input channels with complete channel strips — preamp, multi-band EQ, aux sends, and faders — provide the infrastructure to record a large ensemble, chamber orchestra, or complex production with multiple simultaneous sources without patchbay compromise and without sharing channels between sources. The console's buss architecture handles multitrack routing, group submixes, and performer monitoring management directly from the console surface. For an engineer working live sessions or orchestral recordings where level and routing decisions are made in real time with no opportunity to revisit them, the 40-channel Trident 88 eliminates the compromises forced by smaller configurations where channel count becomes a limiting factor mid-session.
Sonic character and the Trident 88 signal path
The Trident 88 is designed with sound in mind, not just specifications. The analog signal path — with Trident's characteristic transformers and amplifier circuits — gives the mix a quality that is difficult to achieve in a fully digital environment: subtle saturation on transients, coherence in group submix sums, and a stereo width that results from the physical properties of analog summing rather than from processing. In 40-channel configuration these qualities are particularly audible: the difference between the analog sum and a digital mixdown of the same session is more pronounced than in smaller configurations, where fewer simultaneous sources are working through the analog summing path at once.
KEY FEATURES
- 40 input channels with complete channel strip sections
- Multi-band EQ on every input channel
- Aux sends per channel — monitoring, effects, and cue mixes
- Buss architecture for multitrack routing and group submixes
- Analog signal path with characteristic Trident sonic signature
- Master section with monitor control and speaker switching
- Construction dedicated to professional fixed studio installations
TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS
- Model: Trident Series 88, configuration 88-40
- Input channels: 40
- Type: professional-grade analog mixing console
- EQ: multi-band on every input channel
- Aux sends: multiple per channel
- Master section: monitor control with source switching
- Format: fixed-installation studio console
