I`ve been reading up one a lot of the topics conserning preamps / Microphones. One thing strikes me: It seems there is a general agrement on the fact that the microphone itself has the biggest influnce on the sound in a signalchain..
So.. cashing out 3K for a Neve.. Is it really worth the money?
Ok.. before everybody jumps me and start hitting (I know Neve has a God-like position in the world of recording) let me just explain what I meant by that sentence.
I was just thinking that maybe (MAYBE..) it would be just as good to get a decent preamp for, lets say 1/3 of price of a Neve, and instead spend more money on a GREAT Mic.. (like a C-800G or something)
Actually.. To be honest, I dont know what I`m rambling on about here. The fact is I REALLY REALLY REALLY want a Neve. Even though its a lot of money..
I guess all I want from you is to, as the topic states, convince me to buy a Neve. I`m this close to buying one. I`m standing on the edge, someone please push me..
By the way.. I seem to be leaning towards the 1073DPA. Is that a good choice?
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Well Eriksmusicproduction.... I have used flux loops in the pas
Well Eriksmusicproduction.... I have used flux loops in the past for maintenance purposes.
You may be familiar with those little cassette tape adapters that you can slide into your car stereo that has a cord with a 1/8" stereo mini phono plug, that allows you to plug in your CD portable player?? THAT IS A FLUX LOOP. If you have ever seen one of those, look at the cassette and you will see a tape recorder head. It shoves up to the matching playback head in the car stereo. You feed signal into the cassette head and it transfers the sound to your cassette stereo in the car. Now, I have not tried that with the bias oscillators running. But again, with the theory of operation, there is no real nonlinearities in this process that occur with the tape and would only be with what you get with all of the phase shift and preemphasis and deemphasis in the electronics which would probably includes some alteration to the frequency response based on the expected loss from the tape? Rupert Neve is doing something like this, which would include (I would hope) some sort of nonlinearities? Of course the head in and by itself is a transformer and can be overloaded which would cause certain nonlinear distortion of some type. That would of course creates some change in the texture of sound.
Let me know how it works out for you? ONE NOTE OF CAUTION! IF THE BIAS OSCILLATORS ARE ON, THAT HIGH-FREQUENCY SIGNAL COULD TRANSFER, FROM THE BIAS OSCILLATOR, AND COULD PASS THROUGH TO YOUR MONITORS. THIS COULD BE DEADLY FOR YOUR TWEETERS! So don't turn them up very loud, keep them very low or use headphones with your test.
Remy Ann David