Thread: 2 mic pres to get it all covered???

We have the 6167 strip and its wonderful to use, although it is very colored. Either way, you can reduce or boost gain to suit your needs so its flexible. the 1176 can be bypassed if you want extra color without compression. Other pres Ive had a good experience with? well, the langevin dual vocal combo is awesome and well worth the money, and the True Systems precision 8 is very crisp and clean if that's what youre going for. so, no EQ but plenty of tones to work with... good luck

Juan

I don't know about "covering it all" but I do have the 6176 and the DVC and it covers a pretty good range. If you have the cash though, I would probably go with the UA 6176 and an API 7600.

One unit that shines at "doing it all" is the Millennia ORIGIN. Just touching this unit is very satisfying. It has a wonderful tactile feel to all of the controls and very few pieces I know of compare. I do a lot of "showing" of mic pres to the local studio owners in my area ... and the one unit everyone is interested in, once they have seen heard and touched them is the ORIGIN.

It has the ability to switch between a tube pre or the acclaimed Millennia HV-3 solid state mic pre .. with or without a transformer in the input path ... You can switch the EQ and compressor section between tube or solid state topology separately from the mic pre ... so it will take you from super clean to very colored sounding with a lot of options in between.

The compressor section is electro optical and IMO is one of the best EL OPs I have ever used ... and I have used a lot of them. IMO, the ORIGIN is worth its price, just for the compressor.

Wow, I just fell in love with this forum!

Great advices in no time! Thank you very much Theholotrope, Tripnek and Kurt!

Especially ORIGIN sounds very interesting, I'm gonna spend next few hours learning about it...

More recommendations are wellcome!

protone,
Here is a link to a vocal/ acoustic guitar/ bass demo song I recorded using a U87ai and the ORIGIN. The bass was recorded direct through the ORIGINS DI input. I really like the sustain the compressor section adds to the bass solo part ... CLICK HERE

Kurt, you might want to post that clip elsewhere for the listeners sake, as the stream sounds like garbage. No offense to your track or it's work, just that it seems like a bad representation of an Origin.

Here is a band I tracked a year ago using simply a crappy Joemeek VC3, Behringer mixer and Pro Tools Le 5.3. That crackly sound on the NoWhere Radio stream must be the site.... :roll:

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M.
I have not had that problem .... but still I advise everyone to download the clip rather than stream it ... The quality will be much better that way. As always if anyone wants a CDr 16 bit 44.1 version of the clip I will be happy to provide it for $3.00, shipping and handling. Just drop a PM.

Wow, the difference is night and day. NR must not allocate a lot of bandwidth to their streams. The song is not my favorite genre of music, but the Millennia Origin sounds very nice....

Have a good day,

M.