2x daking mic pre / eq or Great River eq

[DirkB]

Hi all,

I'm looking at purchasing a dual mono / stereo eq. Main use will be in tracking. During mixing the eq's probably will be used together with 2 linked Distressors on the (parallel) drumbus.

Since both are about the same in price (although of course you get two pres extra on the Daking unit), what would you prefer?

Greetings,
Dirk

[brownmouse]

Originally Posted by DirkB

Hi all,

I'm looking at purchasing a dual mono / stereo eq. Main use will be in tracking. During mixing the eq's probably will be used together with 2 linked Distressors on the (parallel) drumbus.

Since both are about the same in price (although of course you get two pres extra on the Daking unit), what would you prefer?

Greetings,
Dirk

the great river eq-2nv is amazng, i would go that route.... ymmv.
joshua

[DrDeltaM]

The Daking EQ kicks ass as well..., but you'll get 2 great pre-amps thrown in 'for free'

[DirkB]

Anybody used both and care to share the differences?

And what about the Buzz MPE-1.1, how does that one compare?

Greetings,
Dirk

[DirkB]

c'mon guys, who's been digging in to the Buzz or Greatriver and perhaps has one of the dakings?

Greetings,
Dirk

[Jerich]

This is my first POST here and i am glad to say..I love DAKING stuff. I have 2) Mic-Pre/Eq,2) Compressor Limiters, 2) Imput Modules. And Love them they are the tone masters of my studio.

[mwagener]

Originally Posted by brownmouse

the great river eq-2nv is amazng, i would go that route.... ymmv.
joshua

One more vote for the GR EQ2NV here very musical EQ for recording.

[NathanEldred]

Originally Posted by DirkB

Anybody used both and care to share the differences?

And what about the Buzz MPE-1.1, how does that one compare?

Greetings,
Dirk

I live with all three units daily in a commercial setting. The main differences between all the units are functional flexibility, their perceived frequency curve (i.e. brighter, flatter, etc) and the general character of the piece which seems to come mostly from the sound of the different transformers. When just passing audio (no EQ engaged) the Daking makes things a little brighter and livelier. The Buzz is generally neutral when transformerless only (but has a more similar tone to the Great River when transformer options on it's input and output are added, as both the GR and Buzz use Sowter iron), and the Great River makes things automatically a little fatter, you're hearing the sound of the transformers. Even though the Daking has transformers, it comes off as being a cleaner sound to my ears although you can crunch up the mids and high mids with the input control, while attenuating the output, but it's either clean or crunchy IME, not much tonally in between like the Buzz and GR. As far as frequency selection, the Daking is least flexible as there are limited EQ selection choices and no Q control. The Buzz is quite a bit more flexible than that, with two bands that range from 30Hz up to 34khz (with fully variable frequency select and Q!!), high and low shelving with Q/slope control on the top shelf, and a seperate low freq rolloff. The Great River is 4 fully parametric bands with seperate low rolloff. The Q isn't fully variable, but there are 3 choices for Q width per band. Frequency choices are fixed, but there are a lot more choices than the Daking (20 points on the Daking compared to the 40 points on the Great River). You can't lose with any of these, they are all the same level of quality.

[pktele]

i have been using the buzz ssa1.1 and soc 1.1 for a year now day in and day out
and prize them for their ability to not to get in the way of whats happening in my tracking rooms. there is no accumulation of mic pre colour when mix down time comes around ... something i've encountered with some famous "holy grail" mic pres. ive been traking everything from weissenborns and upright bass to drums and electric guitars. That said i have been looking at the daking mic pre IV pretty seriously of late.