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guitar7171 · 5th December 2007

I like

4-Fat warm definitely introduces its own color but a very cool one. I could feel the depth of the voice.
2-Warm but crisp a little too silibant
1-Crisper a little bright
3-I heard some narrow frequency response boosts in some mid areas, less even.

All of these are great pres. But having heard so many good things about Pacifica for a while now I was considering picking one up, and this helps my decision. This is great since really hard to go into Guitar center and have them let you shoot out several $2k pres. But its really the only way to tell is by using your ears. And everyone has different tastes. What some call warm others may percieve as muddy. I though tthe Pacifica was a little bottomy on the dry track but in the mix that was easy enough to roll off a touch. Much harder to make a thin pre sound fat and warm than to pull back some lows or step a couple of inches farther from the mic. But to my ears the most human and most musical was Pacifica. Maybe I'm biased cuz I was thinking of picking one up anyway. If I do get it maybe I'll do a shootout with my Daking which is no slouch either. I'm very curious to hear the difference.

5th December 2007	#117
guitar7171 Gear interested Joined: Dec 2006 Posts: 8	I like 4-Fat warm definitely introduces its own color but a very cool one. I could feel the depth of the voice. 2-Warm but crisp a little too silibant 1-Crisper a little bright 3-I heard some narrow frequency response boosts in some mid areas, less even. All of these are great pres. But having heard so many good things about Pacifica for a while now I was considering picking one up, and this helps my decision. This is great since really hard to go into Guitar center and have them let you shoot out several $2k pres. But its really the only way to tell is by using your ears. And everyone has different tastes. What some call warm others may percieve as muddy. I though tthe Pacifica was a little bottomy on the dry track but in the mix that was easy enough to roll off a touch. Much harder to make a thin pre sound fat and warm than to pull back some lows or step a couple of inches farther from the mic. But to my ears the most human and most musical was Pacifica. Maybe I'm biased cuz I was thinking of picking one up anyway. If I do get it maybe I'll do a shootout with my Daking which is no slouch either. I'm very curious to hear the difference.