Chris Del Faro wrote:

Application wil be 99%+ vocals (no autotune!g),
My present vocal mic "locker";

If you are really looking for a different (better?) vocal sound, you
might want to put the money into a different vocal microphone. What kind
of music are you doing?

-Rob

Chris Del Faro wrote:

Wondered if the wise folks here, like Scott/Ted/Monte/et al, might
voice their thoughts on the respective sonic merits of each pre chip.
Planning to have Jim Williams at www.audioupgrades.com do the mod.
Waffling over "character" vs. "accuracy".
Using 16 bit digital multi-track recorders BTW.

In my opinion, investing a dime in the DBX 760X would be a complete
waste of time. It's a ****ty preamp, and you'd spend less by selling
it and buyin something good (RNC, perhaps?) than paying somebody to
shotgun the whole circuit. After making that thing sound good, the
only original part will be the case, and it's not such a nice case to
justify that kind of upgrade. If you want to putz around with it
yourself, replace some components and see what you get, that's one
thing. You could probably improve it somewhat (could hardly make it
worse) and might learn something. But sending it to Audio Upgrades
would be like dropping a high-performance engine into your AMC Pacer.
With your specified application and your microphone selection, I'd
suggest selling the 760X and buying something that has an input
transformer. Great River MP-1NV would be a fantasti choice.


ulysses

Chris Del Faro wrote:
Wondered if the wise folks here, like Scott/Ted/Monte/et al, might
voice their thoughts on the respective sonic merits of each pre chip.
Planning to have Jim Williams at www.audioupgrades.com do the mod.

Have him put a socket in. Then buy both chips and swap them out yourself
and see which one sounds better to you. Once the socket is in, swapping
chips is easy.
--scott

--
"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."

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Justin Ulysses Morse wrote:
In my opinion, investing a dime in the DBX 760X would be a complete
waste of time. It's a ****ty preamp, and you'd spend less by selling
it and buyin something good (RNC, perhaps?) than paying somebody to
shotgun the whole circuit.

Jim Williams drops a new preamp circuit into the existing chassis, so
it's well beyond a simple shotgunning. For this preamp, it makes
sense. It's probably cheaper in the end than an RNP (especially if
the 760 was obtained free or cheaply) and I understand that many
people like his preamps (I've never played with one personally
though).

It still might make better sense to just get a better preamp though.


Best,

Monte McGuire

(Scott Dorsey) wrote in message ...
Chris Del Faro wrote:
Wondered if the wise folks here, like Scott/Ted/Monte/et al, might
voice their thoughts on the respective sonic merits of each pre chip.
Planning to have Jim Williams at www.audioupgrades.com do the mod.

Have him put a socket in. Then buy both chips and swap them out yourself
and see which one sounds better to you. Once the socket is in, swapping
chips is easy.
--scott

Thanks everyone for your response.
Scott, that's a great idea.
This is a well respected mod at RAP and it's been regarded as a fine
dual pre once it's done (try a search here if you don't believe it!).
Mainly just using the body of the 760X (not its "mind"g).

Will be typically recording melodic pop/rock (singer-songwriter) and acapella BTW.

Chris