1176 Rev A FINISHED!!!!

[phishman13]

Hey there everybody!  This is my first finished project that I have posted here, so enjoy!

Here we have a MNATS 1176 Rev A, racked up in that one guy's case.

Of course used the pushbuttons, swapped those 3 resistors that were mentioned in the Rev A thread (making all the ratios work correctly and the All Buttons In mode works great too! Sounds wild!), and put the bypass on the attack pot.  I used pretty much everything Hairball Audio has to offer for this project, transformers, pushbuttons, knobs, matched fets, attenuator, meter, the WHOLE package!  Let me say, TOP quality stuff that guy has!  As well as MNATS PCB's, TOP quality.  So thanks to you guys!

It looks totally bad ass, and it sounds even better!  Its a bit noisy, but only really when the output is cranked.  Got rid of the hum troubles I was having though!  Haven't played with it enough to really know its capabilities yet, but it works wonders on snare drums.  Feeding it an already compressed mix, it really fattens it up, smooths it out, and makes it sound about 30 years older (in a good way!).

Here's some pics!!!

 

[regularjohn]

Great job man!  Clean build, looks great!

 

[Silvas]

Gorgeous. Love that orange caps on the PCB !

 

[mulletchuck]

Just curious if people who build these things ever run software through them.    Like EZDrummer/Superior or AddictiveDrums or BFD.    the OP said it soudns awesome on snares, so I wonder how it sounds on the snares/drums in programs like that..

 

[deuce42]

Generally speaking (generally but not all the time), those software sounds are based on samples that have had massive amounts of compression applied to them. It's one of the reasons why software doesn't always sound exactly like the real instrument - there is often little contrast in dynamic range for a particular sound.

So if you already have a sample which has been compressed to the max, compressing even more with another hardware comp over the top may ruin the signal. Guess the only way is to try it, and good music makers never say never to trying anything. My guess though is you will not be happy with the result.

Oh and Phishman, lovely clean build. Enjoy using it.

 

[mulletchuck]

Well, the selling point about those particular drum samplers is that A) they've already been run through those circuits when they recorded the samples, or B) they haven't received any treatment, other than being sliced up so their transient is at the start of the sample for use in their interface. 

Occasionally I'll buss them to my k26 and use the processors in that (Live Mode) to get some of kurzweil's circuits applied to the sound, but that's only if I'm really tired of the other plugins I've got and want to try using outboard gear...

 

[diyfanatic]

well I use Addictive drums and ezdrummer (mostly vintage rock), they don't have too much compression.
for Addictive drums the compressor is inside as a plug in so you can shut it down.

these stuff are amazing, since you have a bunch of mics, like overhead, room mic, etc...

they are pretty clean so it's a real pleasure to use hardware gear to warm up the sound!

 

[mac]

hats off to the big orange blimps!!!!

well done....enjoy...

Mac