drumsound wrote:So does the mic pre have a gooey vintage vibe or more of a modern super hi-fi type thing happening?
Somewhere in between. Lets say near a more modern V72. But with enough smoothness and tube magic to make everyone happy.
Here is a quick user review and remember our 30 day return policy to anyone who wants to try one.
"Rob also builds equipment and he was nice enough to let me demo a D19 tube mic pre/d.i. to check out.
It's a half rack unit that has an attractive orange flake paintjob that's a real tube circuit not some cheap ass starved plate voltage made in china shit. As a di it brought out a smoothness in my crappy P bass knockoff that none of my other di's have done. There are 4 filter switches that you can adjust to alter the tone of things. The eq points are:
SWITCH 3: filter #1. Up is a notch at 11kHz; down is a notch at 6.5kHz. CENTER OFF.
SWITCH 4: filter #2. Up is a notch at 4.2kHz; down is a notch at 2.4kHz. CENTER OFF.
On acoustic guitar I tracked it against a chandler germanium and a universal audio 2108 and while they all have different tonal attributes the D19 sounded the most earthy and natural out of the three. The highs were just crisp enough for me yet nowhere near as aggressive sounding as the UA and more hi fi sounding than the Germanium.
On vocals it kills. period. Through a semi nice tube mic (Mojave MA-200) it was by far the smoothest of the 3 preamps, definitely the most natural sounding of them all and when stacked against 10 tracks or so of stuff sat in a mix like it owned it. You could also drive the output knob into some really nice tube distortion also if you were so inclined too.. sounded great driving a bass..
I think it's streeting somewhere around $700 and is totally worth it if for just vocal tracks alone, that it makes a great bass di and shines on acoustic instruments is total gravy.
Anyways I think it's awesome that there is a local dude building fantastic sounding equipment and fixing stuff on the cheap. Check them out..."
Justin Guerin, Boathouse Studio
