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Originally Posted by David Rick  Folks 'round here know I do mostly acoustic gigs, so I lean towards the clean side of preamp land. For a "color" preamp to earn a place in my remote rack, it has to be something pretty special. Well, the Juggernaut Twin has earned its rack space.
Last week I used it on close mics for a Steinway D. Normally I mic this instrument from twenty feet away and so I did my usual thing with a DPA 4003 pair, APE balls, and a Millennia HV-3 preamp. Beautiful -- but unusable for one piece that was performed with pre-recorded backing tracks played over a loud PA. So close mics were called for, but I did NOT want them to sound too close -- I decided I wanted a softer attack like you'd hear out in the hall. I put up a pair of 4006-TL's with trapazoidal grids inside the Steinway and plugged them into the Juggernaut Twin to get a little help from its transformers. With all the options on this thing, you'd think it might take a long time to dial in a sound, but it didn't. I started with Nickel/Nickel, and spun loading knob, quickly realizing that the 10k setting sounded most natural. Tried the Iron output tranformer... nope, not my cup of tea in this case. Tried the Iron input transformer... nice softening of the bottom octave, just as I was hoping. Mission accomplished!
As it turned out, the artist wanted more bottom impact than I thought he would, but with one button push I was back to the Nickel input transformer and on with the session.
Anyhow, I just wanted to give a thumbs up to Nathan and Tim for making such a versatile box.
David L. Rick
Seventh String Recording |
Hi David, thanks very much for that.
We've got our heart and soul in these preamps, so it means a lot to hear you say that you are getting nice sounds and that it has made your life easier.
