I have had this ART Pro Channel in my studio for years now and I would like to breath some new life into it. I ordered and installed Ei 12AX7 Elites and TungSol 12AX7 [ NEW PRODUCTION] tubes only to find that both had issues. The Ei's had +17 dB noisefloor over baseline factory tube. The TungSol tube has a bad harmonic distortion at about 300hz.

Does anyone have any experience with these? I've heard good things about them but am starting to get very skeptical about all this pro-sumer recording gear.

In short I recently bought a Firebox and have now realized that is has pretty wimpy pres... I'm thinking the TubePre might be a quick/cheap fix for me until I can afford a soundcard in a higher price range.

Thx

I'm curious - is it common to replace tubes in mic preamps (before they burn out)? And does it actually make a lick of a difference?

is there any way to download extra presets for at2 online somewhere?

Has anyone tried the PreSonus TubePRE Mic preamplifier?, is the quality good for the price?, how are it's results?

6SN7 & 12SN7. any of you guys who build or tinker have any opinions?

I know the au,at & 6sn7 are lower gain than their counterparts.

Any thoughts on the way they sound?

Thanks

I don' t mean any cheap starved plate jobs.

What do you expect from a GOOD tube mic preamp?

What do you want to hear from it when you audition it?

What features are must haves?

Thanks
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i'm looking to add warmth to my vocals. any ideas under $300 new/used?

I have a TL Audio C1 preamp/compressor.
I just love what it does to my bass patches. My NL2 is permanently patched in channel A, my SE-1x channel B. The *only* thing I dont like about it is that there's no output trim control so I have to be careful not to clip the converters when I'm overdriving the signal. Not a deal breaker.

Hey guys, I was wondering about Antares Tube Preamp modeling. But I have no idea what a tube preamp is... I was very happy with Antares Microphone Modeling (which actually turns my 100 dollar Behringer B-1 into a Neumann U47).

So can someone please explain to me please in the simplest of ways what this Tube Pre-amp modeling will do to my vocals?