Like many other I was very interested in the products of this small new company.
the specs, look and description made me curios especially at their very low retail price.
as their products are not available on shops I asked their man in Berlin to bring me the compressor and micamp for a pro test in my studio (
www.lowswing.de).
Just to clear thing: I'm not connected by any means to hand crafted labs!, I'm just a costumer and i thought I'd do here a favor for other by posting here my test files.
these were the test:
acoustic guitar: a vintage km54 was recording guild acoustic guitar through 4 pres :Telefunken v676a (I got 4 of them,they were NOS), tele V72 (in real great condition!),Cadac g268 (very neve-ish class A pre) and the Hand Crafted labs tube micpre. no ee, compressor or any processing direct to swissonic ad24(better than my RME) at 24bit 44.1khz into SX3.1 ditherd to 16bit by apogge UV22HR
Vocals: Gefell um92.1s through the pres above.
ac gtr compressed: one of the files above compressed by 1176, adr compex, ADL cl1000, Hand Crafted tube compressor.
voc compressed: one of the files above compressed by the above compressors.
bass compressed: a 70' vintage Fender fretless precision was recorded through DI in the v676 (this basic file called bass a) and than compressed by the compressors above (files bass b-bass e)
Listen to the files and say your opinion. soon I'll post what is what as well the result we got in the studio (main, my assistant-Andy, and guitarist/vocalist Johannes opinions)
to this post are attached the acoustic guitar test ac a,b,c and d
Enjoy
FILES WORKING NOW!