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Old 13th April 2007   #176
retractablezing
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I listened to those clips.

To my ears, the V's sound fast and big. The HCL compressor sounds great, i don't hear anything i don't like there, honestly.

I must admit that the preamp did impress me less. Not as noticable on vocals (where it sounded really good, a tad more present and bigger than the V's in a good way), but i think it had a hard time recovering from the transient response on the acoustic guitar, where the V's really excelled. Almost like a weird phasey sustain thing going on..

Anyone else hearing this?

I suppose it's cause it's a valve based pre, so it's kind of bound to be less quick on recovery.

The compressor sounds absolutely great though.
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