DennisC wrote on Wed, 16 March 2005 15:34 |
Tell me more about the Lucas Pre, i have not heard of this.
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I have two of the mic pre's. One is the very first prototype, and sounds great, but there was a hum because of the placement of a power transformer (which we worked around by turning it), so on the second one, which I also have, the power supply is in a second 2U unit, which I mount at least a space away from the mic pre electronics.
The units are "based" loosely upon the Neve 2 stage architecture, but with improvements, and using valves (tubes) instead of the discreet transistors. I could not work without this unit.
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He tells me the Graphic EQ was based on the API graphic, just that its loaded with tubes instead....DID YOU not get one? I find that hard to imagine!
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These things are true. We tried to take vintage designs which I liked and used, and improve them, again with tubes instead. I do indeed have one.
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My 3 Band parametric is the bees knees on Kick Drum, and gives a rather thin vocalist some BALLZ.
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Yes.
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Just too bad no one else gets to experience this sonic bliss!
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Working on that.
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What's the signifigance of the Lucas name?
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When I was first getting this stuff going, my son Lucas was being born. I thought it would be a nice tribute, and was also a good sounding brand, as well as a son. He is now 14, and he's grown up seeing his name everywhere around the studio. I also made a lot of customised guitars of various sorts which also bear the Lucas name on the headstocks. Many of these have dual outputs (
"Dual Exhaust" models, utilising two complete different sets of pickups and electronics on one guitar) so that they can be routed to two different amps at once ("midi" for guitar), but with various different pickup sounds. Works great for
"dual tonality, without buildup."