Seventh Circle Audio

[TV Lenny]

Can anyone tell me the sound quality of Seventh Circle's mic pre's? Are they worth looking into or is there a better place to find a DIY high quality pre?

[earth tones]

I know a lot of people here will highly recommend Scott Hamptone's DIY preamps.

http://www.hamptone.com

[kayagum]

Use the search function- there are 118 topics that mention Seventh Circle.

People seem to like them and Hamptone- it will just depend on what you're after, I would think.

[Randy]

I have heard a lot of positive comments on both of them. The Hamptone is self-contained with power supply and chassis, so there is less planning to do. The Seventh Circle stuff is more open-ended and can be configured differently, but they don't offer a tube pre.

I wouldn't imagine you could go wrong with either of them.

[TV Lenny]

Thanks Everyone. I am going to go with Seventh Circle this time. I like the idea of being able to add multiple different sounding pre's in one lunchbox. But I am planning on building the JFET Hamptone later on. Which then I'm sure will lead to the tube version.

Give me $10,000 and send me back to 1959.-Mike Wheeler



Tom

[ulriggribbons]

plug for jlmaudio as well:

http://www.jlmaudio.com

the 99V is a thing of beauty. Great kit!

Regards

ju

[mikelevitt]

Thanks Everyone. I am going to go with Seventh Circle this time. I like the idea of being able to add multiple different sounding pre's in one lunchbox. But I am planning on building the JFET Hamptone later on. Which then I'm sure will lead to the tube version.

Give me $10,000 and send me back to 1959.-Mike Wheeler



Tom

Tom,

You will not be disappointed. I own all 4 flavors of SCA, and they are outstanding. I very rarely track with anything else these days - unless I run out of SCA.

Well worth twice what you pay for them!

Mike

[allbaldo]

I built an N72, and absolutely love it. Next up is a C84. Someday, I'll try the Hamptone.

[agauchede]

I have a pair of N72's and a pair of A12's - both stellar - highly recommended and a lot of fun to build.

-Chris

[thearnicasync]

I've got an N72 and a couple A12's, and have had both hamptones.

For some reason, I like the other Neve clones a lot more than the n72. Specifically, the Chandler LTD-1, but it's also a 1073 (and not 1272) reproduction. Let the flaming/ridicule begin, but there's a lot to be said for that 3rd gain stage.

Highly, highly, highly recommend the a12's. They sound huge but don't go crazy in the low mids...they kinda mix themselves.

The JFET is sweet. The tube (I had the LCMP, and regret selling it to friend/studio) is as good as it gets...sounds HUGE but balanced and hi-fi. Super "honest" sounding pre, unlike the Neve stuff which is beautiful in a sort of supernatural way.

kb