Warming up your signals

fishman · 10th January 2005

Hi there,

Another slightly dumb question (this is getting to be a habit). If this has been covered before can someone please direct me to the link...

Would running a signal through, say, the line level input of a Neve channel do anything beneficial to it - would it impart anything of the pre-amp tone? (assuming EQ is NOT used, obviously that would make a difference) Or would the signal stay the same/get degraded?

thx again

fish

jbuntz · 10th January 2005

You'll be better off making sure that you are using preamps meant to accept line level ohm and gain wise. Part of what makes neve stuff cool is the inductor based eq and you'd probably be better off using stuff that imparts a cool tone and is functional like an 1176, 1073 or something for the application you are talking. Any sort of line level you add to a signal is going to degrade the signal. Neve stuff happens to do so in a cool sounding way but it's still relativley subtle compared to what you can do with an EQ or Compressor.

10th January 2005

i use the phoenix nicerizer for this it works good and has 2 mix buses

fishman · 11th January 2005

Thx guys!

fish

LittleDogAudio · 11th January 2005

I second the 1176.

Chris

Jason Poulin · 12th January 2005

Try running to analog, and really warm up that signal.

Jason

squeegybug · 12th January 2005

I do this occasionally on Vintech X73i. The "sound" on these types of preamps has a ton to do with the transformers, and the X73i line input does go through the transformers.

Excellent additional use for this kind of gear, even without using the EQ (which is great as well...)

Steve

10th January 2005	#1
fishman Gear nut Join Date: Jun 2003 Posts: 118 Thread Starter	Warming up your signals Hi there, Another slightly dumb question (this is getting to be a habit). If this has been covered before can someone please direct me to the link... Would running a signal through, say, the line level input of a Neve channel do anything beneficial to it - would it impart anything of the pre-amp tone? (assuming EQ is NOT used, obviously that would make a difference) Or would the signal stay the same/get degraded? thx again fish

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10th January 2005	#2
jbuntz Lives for gear Join Date: Jul 2003 Posts: 1,716	You'll be better off making sure that you are using preamps meant to accept line level ohm and gain wise. Part of what makes neve stuff cool is the inductor based eq and you'd probably be better off using stuff that imparts a cool tone and is functional like an 1176, 1073 or something for the application you are talking. Any sort of line level you add to a signal is going to degrade the signal. Neve stuff happens to do so in a cool sounding way but it's still relativley subtle compared to what you can do with an EQ or Compressor.

10th January 2005	#3
Harmon Kneenot Guest Posts: n/a	i use the phoenix nicerizer for this it works good and has 2 mix buses

11th January 2005	#4
fishman Gear nut Join Date: Jun 2003 Posts: 118 Thread Starter	Thx guys! fish

11th January 2005	#5
LittleDogAudio Gear nut Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Cleveland, Ohio Posts: 109	I second the 1176. Chris

12th January 2005	#6
Jason Poulin Lives for gear Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Sudbury, On. Canada Posts: 1,769	Try running to analog, and really warm up that signal. Jason

12th January 2005	#7
squeegybug Lives for gear Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: MO USA Posts: 2,152	I do this occasionally on Vintech X73i. The "sound" on these types of preamps has a ton to do with the transformers, and the X73i line input does go through the transformers. Excellent additional use for this kind of gear, even without using the EQ (which is great as well...) Steve