Good Channel Strip, but Consider the Presonus Eureka 
by Everett Griffiths from Los Angeles, CA, October 2007
Music Background:  Composer, Engineer

I looked carefully for a channel strip in the $500 price-range, and the dbx 376 and the Presonus Eureka were the two I came up with. They offer similar features: Preamp, EQ, Comp/Limiting. The dbx comes standard with a digital output; the Eureka offers this extra at a price. I recorded lots of good stuff with the 376, but head to head, I just liked the PreSonus more -- it had more of what I wanted to hear. Both units are little bit hard to steer with touchy knobs, but the Eureka was a bit easier to set, although on the Eureka I found it harder to catch clips (the dbx does offer easy to read LEDs instead of the old school VU meter) and the Eureka's knobs are pretty tiny and catch a bit of glare which makes them very difficult to read.

The dbx 376 is nothing to be ashamed of, but if you don't need the digital output, the Eureka is the better sounding unit in my opinion.

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