UA 2-610 Mods?

[Matt Syson]

Hi
Valves don't 'honk' you will be looking in the wrong direction.
If it has an output transformer, make sure it is 'terminated' correctly (600 Ohms ?).
Matt S

[Sean Sullivan]

Thanks Jim. I'll keep that in mind...hopefully in the near future I can try a transformer swap on one and see how it sounds and maybe do an A/B

[drtechno]

Originally Posted by Sean Sullivan

We've got a few UA preamps at the studio and they've always had this low mid "honk" I never liked.

Has anyone poked around inside? I'm sure a tube swap would make some difference but I was wondering if anyone has played around with the circuit to clean it up a little

remove wima caps and replace with solen ploy
wimas never sound good in tube based processing gear