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pneil100 · 17th May 2008, 01:19 AM

Mine landed last week. Tracked some guitars through it and it is a lot of fun. We had some problems with post within Australia and Ben was really helpful. I wouldn't have any problems recommending Ben's customer service. If your interested in the pre, call him up. Really nice fella.
Have it in the UK at the moment. First thing I did was pop it open. Big tor PS, lots of nice caps, JAN NOS tubes. Circuit topography isn't my chosen specialist subject but there was plenty of sheilding, twisted cables, seperation, all the stuff that you'd expect from a well constructed piece. Top work Ben. Wouldn't look out of place in a 70's Hiwatt.
Running it alongside P1, Elixir, GR it gets very crunchy. Like I said earlier, it is loads of fun on guitars. I don't know exactly whats making that texture dial work so well but it reminded me of shifting bias in guitar amps. The thing about this level of variability is that it makes it hard to describe the relative sound. It's definitely warm as you'd expect, it does fatten the signal constructively and it sits on the darker side of neutral but I've only given it a work out with guitar tracks which isn't really an appropriate signal source for extended HF appraisal.
I've never used the Sebatron's although I'm in at Universal in the next couple of weeks and the engineer in there has his own. Might be a useful comparison. Only question is do you go to it? I have for rock guitars. Your milage might be different (as the old fella says).
Thanks Ben. Cue the vocalist.

17th May 2008, 01:19 AM	#25
pneil100 Gear interested Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: London Posts: 2	Got one... Mine landed last week. Tracked some guitars through it and it is a lot of fun. We had some problems with post within Australia and Ben was really helpful. I wouldn't have any problems recommending Ben's customer service. If your interested in the pre, call him up. Really nice fella. Have it in the UK at the moment. First thing I did was pop it open. Big tor PS, lots of nice caps, JAN NOS tubes. Circuit topography isn't my chosen specialist subject but there was plenty of sheilding, twisted cables, seperation, all the stuff that you'd expect from a well constructed piece. Top work Ben. Wouldn't look out of place in a 70's Hiwatt. Running it alongside P1, Elixir, GR it gets very crunchy. Like I said earlier, it is loads of fun on guitars. I don't know exactly whats making that texture dial work so well but it reminded me of shifting bias in guitar amps. The thing about this level of variability is that it makes it hard to describe the relative sound. It's definitely warm as you'd expect, it does fatten the signal constructively and it sits on the darker side of neutral but I've only given it a work out with guitar tracks which isn't really an appropriate signal source for extended HF appraisal. I've never used the Sebatron's although I'm in at Universal in the next couple of weeks and the engineer in there has his own. Might be a useful comparison. Only question is do you go to it? I have for rock guitars. Your milage might be different (as the old fella says). Thanks Ben. Cue the vocalist.