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jadedjeff
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I just purchased an Altec 1567a Tube mixer on ebay. I use an apple powerbook w/ mbox. I'm one of "those guys" who don't know $*^t about the schematics of vintage gear (yet), but am in love with their sound. I've been recording on everything TUBE and 2" machines at a few studios ... just never ran the stuff. I've used these as preamps before, and they definietly kick some ass... gives you some nice tape emulation / saturation.
Anyway, all the 4 xlr inputs work fine, except a few are a bit dirty and noisy when i turn the knobs.
My 3 question are this:
1) This thing sounds kick ass with sm 57s on guitars etc... but when i go to do vocals on a phantom powered Audio Technica 4040 Cardioid condenser microphone, i get nothing but faint am radio sounding signal in pro tools. Is there like some kind of impedence problem? Same thing happens when I try to run the Altec through the TRS inserts loop.
2) There is a recorder output and a line output. Which one should I use? I hooked it up to the recorder output, but the master volume and 2 Eq's don't do anything. And i guess i can't even use the line output anyway, until i get the transformer for it
3) is there a way to install an XLR output so I don't have to keep ripping up old chords
Know any good vintage pro's that refurbish this stuff?
Any advise or help on this piece of gear would be much appreciated.
Thanks!!!
Jeff
Anyway, all the 4 xlr inputs work fine, except a few are a bit dirty and noisy when i turn the knobs.
My 3 question are this:
1) This thing sounds kick ass with sm 57s on guitars etc... but when i go to do vocals on a phantom powered Audio Technica 4040 Cardioid condenser microphone, i get nothing but faint am radio sounding signal in pro tools. Is there like some kind of impedence problem? Same thing happens when I try to run the Altec through the TRS inserts loop.
2) There is a recorder output and a line output. Which one should I use? I hooked it up to the recorder output, but the master volume and 2 Eq's don't do anything. And i guess i can't even use the line output anyway, until i get the transformer for it
3) is there a way to install an XLR output so I don't have to keep ripping up old chords
Any advise or help on this piece of gear would be much appreciated.
Thanks!!!
Jeff