vegas4ever wrote on Tue, 30 January 2007 08:06 |
Hey mshilarious, I hate people that ask this... but ... since you seem to be the only one that has use this pre, what does it sound like: Dark Neve, clean Martinsound, or Cant do wrong API?
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You are presuming that I have used much more expensive pres than I have
Isn't this the budget forum?
It seems middle of the road as far as character. If you keep the plate voltage on high (which I would normally recommend), it is actually fairly transparent based on what you might be expecting, but I wouldn't call it sparkly, either.
I like to keep the VU meter set on "tube" (metering the level going in to the tube, after the first opamp stage), and if you keep that out of the red, THD is low. If you peg it, it can be a useful sound for DI instruments; like the Tube MPs, but nicer.
The converter chip is AKM 5394A, which I think is their top of the range. Opamps are BB OPA2134, and socketed. I swapped the stock tubes for NOS GE.