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fairchild 660

I Wish...

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Submitted by DonnyThompson on Tue, 09/05/2017 - 14:13

I was telling Dave Hawk ( @dvdhawk ) this weekend about one of my wishes. And that is that I wish I had the talent, knowledge and ability to design and build gear, ya know, boutique type stuff like opto and tube compressors, EQ'S, mics, guitar amps, ... Like Marco (@pcrecord) built his mic - and I know his came in the form of a kit, but even that is amazing to me.

Fairchild 670 - history and how it works

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Submitted by DonnyThompson on Sun, 03/15/2015 - 05:41

With the advent of classic gain reduction units in software/ plugin form, I thought I would start a series of threads explaining how these original classic units worked - kind of a "what makes them tick" series of threads, for those who are using emulations from companies like UAD, T-Racks/IK Multimedia, Waves, Bomb Factory, Steinberg, etc.

Greg Hanks BA-660 Mic Pre. It's Back!

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Submitted by Ty Ford on Mon, 12/24/2012 - 21:01

I reached out and found Greg Hanks recently and found that he has relaunched his BA-660 mic preamp with some differences from the old version. I was pretty impressed by the last one while reviewing it. It'll take me a bit to wade through the new one. I'm just giving you a heads up.

Regards,

Ty Ford

compressor plugins vs. real compressor

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Submitted by anonymous on Thu, 10/01/2009 - 10:49

I was recording last night with a new preamp that I built (Telefunken V-72) and I am getting pretty good sounding recordings now using Pro Tools. When I add a compressor using the various plugins that come with Pro Tools LE it seems to me that they are actually degrading the sound and reducing the gain.