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Old 31st January 2007, 08:11 PM   #15
ABGen
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Originally Posted by HEADROOM View Post
For vocals tubes are great.

For some applications (like a snare drum) you actually CAN have too many tubes in a chain. IMO..

It is warm and thick but sometimes you get more punch using less tubes.

I basically record with V76 an V72s but for parts of the drums I prefer Sitral (solid state pres)

tubetubetube is not always the answer to all questions....


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so...in general fast attack = less tube and more clinical / solid state pre's
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