jdier wrote on Mon, 07 June 2010 09:41 |
I have some SCA N72's and if you like the Great River, I think you will also like the N72 quite a bit.
SCA also has the T15 which to me sounds quite a bit like an RNP.
Seems the SCA stuff has fallen a bit out of favor (not talked about as much as it was 2-3 years ago) but the quality is really top notch.
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I just built an octet of SCA pres; four N72 and four J99.
I just recorded a jazz quintet the other night with 'em, using the J99s on drums. The J99s are incredible for overheads; for jazz you won't need close mics at all!
The N72, as someone else mentioned, has an interesting slight compression effect when the gain is dimed and then trimmed back (the gain is post-input-jack, and the trim control is between the input and output gain stages).
At $329 per module (build it yourself), plus $300 for the chassis/PSU (when purchased with modules), you're looking at $1500 or so for a quartet of N72s. The J99s are a bit more, as they're $329 per module plus $70 for the two SC99 op-amps.
If you're curious:
http://www.tewsnet.com/dropbox/M5-sample.mp3Horns, guitar, bass: N72
Drum O/H and kick: J99
There are NO close-mics on the kit (save for the kick).