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clean mic pre
All,
I am looking at high quality mic pre's, and aside from the focusrite discrete stuff, it is looking like I am going to be paying well over 1k for a decent mic pre. (upper 10% in sound quality) I have used the focusrite platinum line stuff and it seems somewhat smooth, really clean with a great frequency response, but somewhat grainy. I get good results, but not quite as smooth as I am looking for. Is it possible to build your own very high quality tube preamp, I am thinking like an M610 type of pre, for less than it costs to buy an M610, and still get the same sound quality? Is the M610 considered a top quality, no frills preamp? This is the one I am considering buying. I don't really want compression or an eq. Just a couple of gain pots and a meter, phase switch, maybe a ground lift, but I want to do it right with a really clean, relatively simple, and good sounding circuit. I have some software plugins that get pretty good results for compression if I need it, a UAD card. I just want something I can record a cool enough output with (into the DAW) with, to preserve all of the transients without digital clipping, uncompressed, but is clean enough that I can work the recording in software and do things like apply the UAD's LA2A and slam it if the artist wants to, without excessive preamp noise becoming an issue. I want the original tracks to be uncompressed. I know that a lot of people like to put a limiter between the preamp and DAW, but I want the cleanest, shortest signal path possible. Is there a really good tube preamp plan out there that I can purchase or download that some of the more experienced people here can recommend as a great sounding, no frills preamp? Is there a plan out there for a Neve 1073 (or similar) clone that really does sound as good as a Neve? I am not concerned with having a tube amp as much as I am concerned with a great sounding, smooth preamp design (or 3). If I can build it myself and the design stands up to A-List equipment, and it is substantially less expensive... I will be very happy. I would prefer having at least one tube preamp in my gear list, and if it is there, I want it to be a good one, even if it is a home-built. My dad is a really good equipment tech (including tube) (40 years, starting in the navy and still does it) and has offered to lend me his expertise to help build it. I am not exactly second guessing him, but want to show him some of the plans and schematics that are floating around out here for this job before I commit the circuit to solder. If there are some designs people are passionate about, I want to look at them and run them by Dad : ) I am pretty new to the studio type high end input chain stuff so please go easy on me. I do like to do things the hard way and learn by doing so, so please don't bust my ass and tell me to just save my money: ) Any recommendations would be appreciated. thx, 2mb |
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I think rec.audio.pro may be a better newsgroup for this...
Is it possible to build your own very high quality tube preamp, I am thinking like an M610 type of pre, for less than it costs to buy an M610, and still get the same sound quality? Yes, of course it is. I have absolutely no idea what an M610 is, but that shouldn't matter much :-) I started building a tube mic pre a year ago, but I never got rith of all the hum. But others have built it, and tells me it sounds good - have a look he http://stiftsbogtrykkeriet.dk/~mcs/micpre/ Also have a look at the Gyraf website (http://gyraf.dk/) Best regards, Mikkel C. Simonsen |
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