[superkev07]

I wanted to chime in with a general warning: whenever you have a piece of gear modified, especially something so central to your studio, make sure you have some sort of backup in place.

I know a lot of people have been really happy with their mods from BLA. And I certainly agree with everyone's comments about how great it sounds now. That's all very true. But somehow, after that thing was modified, I can only open sessions on it for about 30 minutes to an hour before everything goes to hell. I'm guessing it's the clock because the problems are an exponentially increasing number of pops and clicks (once they start around 30-60 minutes in). Once that occurs I'm done for the day. It shut down my workflow for months while I tried to suss out the problem. I'd think I had it fixed, but then the next day, it's back. Ultimately, I had to send it back to BLA (twice) for them to try to fix it and drop some mad cash on a replacement system (Note: They do have a lifetime warranty on their work, which is awesome). It sucked, but while I was at it, I went ahead and upgraded. See my sig for what I'm running.

I'm not saying this to bash BLA. Not at all, I've heard they've done great work and the vast majority of people haven't had an issue. Just make sure you have a backup system in place (or at least know someone with a 002 that you can borrow) before you take the plunge. Good luck fellas.