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yeah I got mine at the TapeOp SXSW party too - there is a pretty small range where you can get some typical compression and then it goes into distortion, however i'm not complaining! it's a nice distortion that I imagine will be good for adding a little grit to something (drums, vocals, ?). only pla...

might want to check this link. there are people there that do their own windings as well as tear apart old transformers...

http://www.prodigy-pro.com/diy/

Mike

500 series pre for cheap!

now on evilBay http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... 121wt_1102

but I'd do $225 shipped for Tape Op readers...

changing caps helps too, but they are what they are.... and they are not a $1000+ mic.

bump - I'll bring it to the TapeOp party in Austin if you are going and want to pick it up in person! Or if you have something I need? (but only in interested in trades if we can do it in person - thanks).

Mike

SOLD Thought I might see if any interest here before I try eBay.... Zildjian K Custom 20" Dry Light Ride - really nice jazz cymbal or for lighter volume gigs, studio. if you want to hear it, go check out the sampels on the Zildjian site - it's pretty close to that. This one is in like new condition...

finished! it passed audio the very first time and only needed calibration. The quality of the components from the Hairball kit and the MNATs PCB board seem to be very good. I thought it was fairly easy to assemble (although a few things noted in post above). I wouldn't recommend trying it unless you...

bump - these are awesome pres!

I'm actually building the hairball HB76 "Rev F" bluestripe (with Mnats board). Actually, it's built but I need to test it and calibrate it still. I powered it up and no smoke yet so got my fingers crossed. :lol: If you take your time and can solder carefully, then it should be OK. the biggest challe...

bump!

wire them for the 600 ohm - which means you will tie the pair together and cover with some shrink tube. Then hook pins 2 & 3 (tip and ring) of your jacks (XLR or TRS) to the transformer input and output pairs and you will have a balanced input and output. pay attention to the polarity so you don't i...

if you plan to come to Austin for SXSW, you can come check it out, or I can meet you in Austin (at the Tapeop party).

ahh, but I am using the 002/003 drivers and that's what I suspect the problem is as well. Before I had win7, I had XP and PTLE 7 and 8. PTLE 8 had horrible problems with crackly audio and weird bursts of white noise. well thankfully they fixed it - or at least most of it. I think this problem I'm se...

Old School Audio 500 pre with the Lundahl 1538XL input transformer. Everything works as it should. I was using it mostly on kick drums. 1/4 on front is a line input. There is a small deformity in the plastic potting on the opamp, but its been like this for years and has never proven to be a problem ...