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Well... This seems a little silly to me. Absent a full mix—or at least a total aesthetic vision of what the full mix ought to sound like—it seems to me it's hard to perceive the qualitative differences between these pres as inherently "good" or "bad."
I, too, "liked" the Pacifica best—independent of any other instruments around it—and I, too, found the BAE rather "scooped," but it seems to me the sonic qualities which differentiate these pres can only be viewed (er, heard) as benefits or defects depending on the total sonics of a full arrangement. The Germ (I think...I'm forgetting now) sounded the edgiest, the most "forward," perhaps, but while such qualities might seem perhaps "grating" or "thin" when the sound is isolated, they might be just the qualities to make the guitar "distinctive" in the full context of the mix.
Make any sense?
That aside, I also don't buy the idea that we can't "differentiate" the sound sof these pres by listening to them (as here) in less-than-optimal monitoring environments (like laptop speakers)—which are, after all, where most end-users will listen to them anyway.
FWIW.
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