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meteor · 20th December 2006

Had a 002r modded by the guys at BLA. Have to say that I am plenty happy. The new pres aren't brilliant, but they are usable under normal circumstances in a way that the stock pres never were. The same goes for all inputs and outputs - especially the monitoring section where the difference is most obvious. Finally, the clock is just night and day. The old clock was fairly bad to my ears. The new clock is well above average and totally usable. I don't like that the new clock is platform specific (Mac or PC), but I have always been a Mac guy so that didn't affect me.

I wasn't expecting a miracle. I was expecting a noticable and substantial improvement on all fronts. That is exactly what I got. I get to work in very High-End environments fairly regularly, and I think the BLA mod edged my little writing studio/remote rig into a more professional and less amature work environment. The whole process costs less (much less) than 1 channel of a great pre or 1 set of great converters. All in all... I had reasonable expectations for what I was spending and feel that they were exceeded... plain and simple.

cheers,

20th December 2006	#11
meteor Lives for gear Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: The Lone Star Posts: 554	Had a 002r modded by the guys at BLA. Have to say that I am plenty happy. The new pres aren't brilliant, but they are usable under normal circumstances in a way that the stock pres never were. The same goes for all inputs and outputs - especially the monitoring section where the difference is most obvious. Finally, the clock is just night and day. The old clock was fairly bad to my ears. The new clock is well above average and totally usable. I don't like that the new clock is platform specific (Mac or PC), but I have always been a Mac guy so that didn't affect me. I wasn't expecting a miracle. I was expecting a noticable and substantial improvement on all fronts. That is exactly what I got. I get to work in very High-End environments fairly regularly, and I think the BLA mod edged my little writing studio/remote rig into a more professional and less amature work environment. The whole process costs less (much less) than 1 channel of a great pre or 1 set of great converters. All in all... I had reasonable expectations for what I was spending and feel that they were exceeded... plain and simple. cheers, __________________ "Hope doesn't float. It sinks to the bottom... You need more than hope. You have to believe."