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Originally Posted by Led  They all sound different depending on the age of the opto cell, the input tranny type and also the components inside. When I got my old La2a there was one capacitor someone had replaced with a crappy make. My tech replaced it and it sounded totally different, so with older models you never know what has been changed on them from stock.
Why don't you put up a vocal file and we can all run them through ours at the same gain reduction (like 5dB or something ) and upload them. It would be an interesting exercise, because my 2 vintage LA3A's sound different and they are only a few years apart. Obviously gain staging would play a part in the sound also... |
edit: Here is a raw wave vocal file to run through the la2a or la3a or compressor of choice. The chain has been Sm7b>JLM ba2> ROland mmp-2 (used for its convertors, everything else is bypassed) >pc.