Anyone tried this new proper tube budget mic pre?

Posted: Sat Jan 19, 2008 5:41 pm

Hi. I just received my new Studiospares catalogue today and saw this

:-http://www.studiospares.com/pd_348000_STU%20MONO%20VALVE%20MIC%20PREAMP.htm

It looks like a new valve preamp that uses a proper valve circuit and not the gimmick valve thing! It also costs around £75! Looks very interesting and might try this one out!?

Posted: Sat Jan 19, 2008 7:18 pm

Tech art, man!

That's one hell of a conversation piece.

IIRC, these (or something similar) have been around for quite a while.

Never heard it.

Looks neat, though.

Posted: Sat Jan 19, 2008 8:48 pm

Sexy

Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2008 3:15 am

Yeah I've been considering getting a tube preamp to compliment my M-Audio Tampa and DMP3. I was thinking about getting the Electro Harmonix 12AY7 but this looks more appealing!

Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2008 3:56 am

This unit is apparently manufactured by the Soundking Group, a company based in China. It's intriguing to me why the StudioSpares people seem to have [crudely] edited out the company's logo in their picture.

A quote from the Soundking website: "Soundking has taken A-OK honor in the world."

Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2008 7:19 am

Save your money and buy a simple but higher quality tube pre like the UA SOLO610 or similar.

You won't believe the difference in the tonal quality of your recordings, it makes everything fat and warm, plus it's much lower noise.

All those tube pres are hype. You're better off with a solid state quality preamp then a cheap tube one.

It's all about noise.

Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2008 11:07 am

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It's intriguing to me why the StudioSpares people seem to have [crudely] edited out the company's logo in their picture.

Nice catch, PLS!
That is interesting.

Looking at the pic I grabbed from Dickiefunk's link you can totally see how they edited the logo - Walmart style re-branding, perhaps?

Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2008 2:02 pm

That'd be my guess. I'd hope it's no shadier than that.

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