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Originally Posted by retractablezing  I see. I like to get my pres into breakup though, makes them sound a bit more "vintage".
You get your gain from the tranformers and your opamps. Hence my question.. |
Perhaps we mean different things by break up. I am a guitar player and break up to me means audible distortion of the power tubes and in some cases of the preamp tubes. Which is usually refered to as crunch. If a mic pre was breaking up that way I doubt people would want to hear their vocals recorded through it.
The Affinity sounds very warm and full at the same time retaining top-end shimmer. Definitely not sterile. I am not sure what exactly vintage pre's are supposed to sound like. I'd say the Affinity sounds "vintage with more definition". Does it make sense? Using guitar analogies, it's kinda like comparing a vintage Fender to a clean channel of a Soldano. While the Fender sounds very warm and full, it lacks that "ping" at the beginning of a note, especially in a chord. With the Soldano you get just as much of fullness and warmth but also each note rings clear and independent. Even at break-up levels. Sorry, I had to resort to a guitar analogy. I lack pro-audio vocabulary.
