Barry Hufker wrote on Sun, 07 September 2008 10:23 |
Gordon Instruments products are one of the few (many?) things I highly recommend to people. Why? Because I think they're the best mic. preamps made. Grant Carpenter is the owner/designer. He is very knowledgeable and a very nice guy. |
Larrchild wrote on Sun, 07 September 2008 14:47 |
Plus, the mic's source impedance is setting the impedance of the line to some degree, just curious if it could do a long run on it's input. |
Hallams wrote on Sun, 07 September 2008 22:43 |
So how much might i expect to pay for the dual preamp? |
Larrchild wrote on Sun, 07 September 2008 17:47 |
Plus, the mic's source impedance is setting the impedance of the line to some degree, just curious if it could do a long run on it's input. |
Barry Hufker wrote on Tue, 16 September 2008 18:53 |
If it doesn't impress you, don't blame the preamp. The disappointment is likely what you have in the signal chain before it -- the talent, the instrument, the room, the mic. |
tom eaton wrote on Wed, 17 September 2008 20:43 |
...it seems to me that pronouncing any preamp as providing the "true" or "most neutral" version of a mics signal is entirely conjecture and personal preference. |
Bob Olhsson wrote on Tue, 30 September 2008 09:34 |
The story of this preamp is pretty amazing. From what I understand, Grant Carpenter showed up on the doorstep of several cost-no-object studios and managed to coax people into BOTH trying his preamp AND giving him feedback. He then took everything he had been told and just kept on improving the preamp for several years until a number of Nashville's top engineers were telling him that it was definitely the best sounding preamp available from literally all of the other potential contenders sitting right next to it in their racks. It's very rare for a piece of gear to be the result of this much collaboration between a gifted design engineer and top recording engineers. |
Schallfeldnebel wrote on Fri, 28 November 2008 08:08 |
Was there not an old German broadcast preamp, which only had one gain setting of 40 dB? People seemed to have worked around that too. |