seawell wrote on Tue, 04 May 2004 02:01 |
Could you compare and contrast the Great River and Pendulum? |
sadworld wrote on Tue, 04 May 2004 05:33 |
well the first thing i would do if i picked one up is throw it on the snare... |
Jim Dugger wrote on Tue, 04 May 2004 04:07 |
The Pendulum has a proper power supply built in. All you need is a standard power cord. The Pendulum is quite colored, but not like you probably think of a pre being colored. It's not 1073 sounding at all. It does not have that "mid range" thing going -- it does not make tracks more forword or more dense. Think lush, opulent, open, musical, creamy, big, huge -- this probably isn't the pre you would want to use on every or even most of the tracks in a song, it's just so amazing sounding you want it to help spotlight. It's such a different sound from the 'neve' sound. This is not to say anything bad about the 1073 sound -- just the Pendulum is a totally different character. I just bought the thing having listened to it with an R84 ribbon attached, so my experience is pretty virgin. That said, I think it would be a natural first choice for crooner vocals, clean tone guitar, bass, acoustic guitar, a softer drum overhead sound (if crispy/punchy wasn't what you wanted), and so forth. As for recording rock and roll, or hell, running the 2-bus through something to glue it together, the Pendulum has a very nice attuenator on the output. Gain goes up, auttenate rolls the output back, color gets richer. I deliberately overdrove the inputs with an SM57 and was quite impressed with the slow onset and creamy nature of the distortion on the Pendulum. I bought both the Pendulum and the Great River NV2 that day. I was just knocked down by both. Just killer pieces. --Jim |
David R. wrote on Tue, 04 May 2004 19:34 |
From what I have found, the MDP-1 does not color too much when using normal gain, but, when pushed, the character really comes out. I'm not so good at describing the character, I'll leave that to the brochures, but I like the way it sounds. |
dirkb wrote on Wed, 05 May 2004 08:31 |
Chandler TG2 ... Meaty, saturated, coloured, great highs, perfect for dirt |
sadworld wrote on Wed, 05 May 2004 22:06 |
after reading more reviews and listening to you guys, i wonder how much different the great river sounds than my x73i since they are both modeled off the neve 1073? and since i'm new with the outboard pre thing, i think i just figured out something just by reading the text... all this talk about overdriving the units into color or personality you're just talking about cranking the input up while the output comes down, is that correct? if so i still haven't found the personality in my x73 cause i did what the manufacturer said... and that's to crank the output and attenuate with the input. |
sadworld wrote on Wed, 05 May 2004 17:06 |
after reading more reviews and listening to you guys, i wonder how much different the great river sounds than my x73i since they are both modeled off the neve 1073? |
sadworld wrote on Sat, 08 May 2004 01:38 |
the manufacturer basically said i will never have to use the 300 setting. what is that for and what will it do for me if anything... thanks, matt. |
sadworld wrote on Fri, 07 May 2004 20:38 |
some things i've read recently prompt me to ask this question... what is the input impedance switch on pres for? for example , my x73i is switchable between 1.2 and 300. the manufacturer basically said i will never have to use the 300 setting. what is that for and what will it do for me if anything... thanks, matt. |