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infiniteposse · 20th February 2006

SK1 - I just got the Biz pre's and haven't even got them into the loop yet. I need to go through and rewire a bunch of stuff and get some patchbays going.

Snatchman - "Which pres perform better, sounds better. The ones with or without the output level control?" - At this level, I don't particularly think any of the pre's sound better or worse than any others, just different. I never seem to be able to get a "horrible" sound out of any of them and with the right mic choice I seem to always get what I think are great sounds. Re: adjustable output, I love the control on my Great River MP2NV and I assume the Purple will work much the same. You get different colors by just pushing the gain and easing off the output level or vice versa. The API and BA pres are way hot, so I've got 4 Shure attenuators I keep in line most of the time to knock down the input level hitting the pre's. This allows me to push the pre's a little harder. Again though, I feel like we're all really lucky to have so many amazing options available to us. What a wonderful time to have a 500-series rack

AdamJay - Yum.

Lastly, Nathan did indeed take the pres back and was pleasant to work with - Atlas and OSA did me right. I had no idea about the employee-that-is-no-more.
Regarding Nathan's point about clients walking away with a great sounding recording and not caring less about build or the "look" of what got the job done, that's been my experience. People that come through my little studio couldn't care less how I did it, just that it sounds good. Having said that though, I do like to feel good about build and ultimately reliability so that I can feel confident that I'll always be able to give people a good recording experience.

That's actually one of the things I love the most about so many of the small companies that we all buy from is the "built like a brick shit house" quality of the gear. My inner-gearslut loves it. We always see tons of pics of the outside of gear around here and I often think the innards are way more sexy.

I'd love to get some more shots of newer-build OSA's up into this thread. Anybody got any out of their rack they could shoot some pics of?

I'm glad some folks find this helpful.

20th February 2006	#17
infiniteposse Lives for gear Joined: Oct 2002 Location: Portland, OR Posts: 592 Thread Starter	SK1 - I just got the Biz pre's and haven't even got them into the loop yet. I need to go through and rewire a bunch of stuff and get some patchbays going. Snatchman - "Which pres perform better, sounds better. The ones with or without the output level control?" - At this level, I don't particularly think any of the pre's sound better or worse than any others, just different. I never seem to be able to get a "horrible" sound out of any of them and with the right mic choice I seem to always get what I think are great sounds. Re: adjustable output, I love the control on my Great River MP2NV and I assume the Purple will work much the same. You get different colors by just pushing the gain and easing off the output level or vice versa. The API and BA pres are way hot, so I've got 4 Shure attenuators I keep in line most of the time to knock down the input level hitting the pre's. This allows me to push the pre's a little harder. Again though, I feel like we're all really lucky to have so many amazing options available to us. What a wonderful time to have a 500-series rack AdamJay - Yum. Lastly, Nathan did indeed take the pres back and was pleasant to work with - Atlas and OSA did me right. I had no idea about the employee-that-is-no-more. Regarding Nathan's point about clients walking away with a great sounding recording and not caring less about build or the "look" of what got the job done, that's been my experience. People that come through my little studio couldn't care less how I did it, just that it sounds good. Having said that though, I do like to feel good about build and ultimately reliability so that I can feel confident that I'll always be able to give people a good recording experience. That's actually one of the things I love the most about so many of the small companies that we all buy from is the "built like a brick shit house" quality of the gear. My inner-gearslut loves it. We always see tons of pics of the outside of gear around here and I often think the innards are way more sexy. I'd love to get some more shots of newer-build OSA's up into this thread. Anybody got any out of their rack they could shoot some pics of? I'm glad some folks find this helpful.