novice planning recording channel with green pre and EQ

Hi all

I am a novice in DIY, did some electronics at school about 20 years ago
but not much have stuck, sorry to say.
I have been following this forum for som weeks and spent quite a while reading different topics

I have a pc running audiophile 24/96 (unbalanced inputs) and I am happy with this setup.

Came across Scott Helmcke´s microphone "Alice" http://www.scotthelmke.com/microphones.html and have built a couple of my own versions of this.

The mics are sideaddress and sounds great taking cost of parts in consideration.
I already own a CAD E-200 and thinking about what this costs 12 years ago the homebuilt mics are even more amazing!

This project opened my eyes for the possibilities with DIY.
Now I would like to build myself a mono front end for my music station.

I have purchased 4 pcb green pre channels from Peter C and are planning on ordering parts kit from Ptownkid.
I have also ordered a Pultec EQ pcb from Gyraf.
My plan is to make a green pre channel with the filter section from the Pultec.

Since I am new to DIY I want to wait before building tube gear, so I was thinking of using a second green pre as gain stage for the filter.

It is tempting to put a "What" compressor into this box also, but I already own a Focusrite "green series" comp/lim so I have not decided on this yet.

Can anybody in this great forum help out on how I should build this project?

I would like to set gain, then utilize the filter, then through a fixed make up gain on the second pre and to the out pot.

Where on the green channels should I lift and then reconnect the signal, and what fixed make-up gain do I need.

Are there any other considerations a novice should consider in building a project like this?

Frezen

Hi Frezen,

Welcome to the board, I?m sure you are going to love your Greens, I have a
pair I built (with much thanks to Peter C who had stuffed a lot of the
boards as they were his Proto?s) and racked up and will be making 2 more.
While I can?t help with your issue of the fixed gain on a second board I can
offer a suggestion to add a bit more colour into your recording channel.

The Green itself is a very colourless pre, very clean and my go to for
Acoustic guitar and some Vox, these are very sweet indeed.

A suggestion I have for you Pultec is to build it solid state with
a Neve output. Fabio has designed a Neve Out board which is what I?ll be
using with my Pultec filter board. It will add colour colour to the filter
section and I think maybe be useful.

Sorry I couldn?t answer how to use a second Green as an output. I know Peter
has done this with a G9 as he shared this with me over lunch last week, but
not sure it has been done with a Green.

Cheers

Matt

I dont know how the Green would handle an input from a non-mic stage. The only time I tried anything other than a mic I put an unbalanced CD player into it & it sounded quite hard.

YMMV :thumb:

Peter