D.A.C..S. Claarityy Mic thingie - As DIY

[BackHand]

I'm far from a pro..but people are raving about this preamp and according to the maker of these they are based on Burr Brown Op's!?
You can buy these cheap and they are chips, all finnished and easy?

Shouldn't we be able to make a DIY of these as a simple kit?

Check it out:
Bur Brown:

http://www.dacs-audio.com/Documentation/micamp_techspecs.htm

Review:

http://www.studioreviews.com/dacs.htm

 

[solder_city]

please take the lame ass 'lets clone product x' crap over to the lab. it doesnt belong on this forum. this forum is for designing and learning, not cloning

 

[Mendelt]

Of course we could....

But that wouldn't be nice to Dacs-audio...

 

[BackHand]

[quote author="BackHand"]I'm far from a pro..but people are raving about this preamp and according to the maker of these they are based on Burr Brown Op's!?
You can buy these cheap and they are chips, all finnished and easy?

Shouldn't we be able to make a DIY of these as a simple kit?

Check it out:
Bur Brown:

http://www.dacs-audio.com/Documentation/micamp_techspecs.htm

Review:

http://www.studioreviews.com/dacs.htm[/quote]


I'm sorry. These were not my intentions.
I don't care if it's a clone. I just thought that the design idéa seemed very easy. To make a "as short a possible" signal path with these Burr Brown.
I can't design jack ****..but you guys just mite do miracles :razz: ?

 

[Mendelt]

If it was as easy as that then Uli Behringer would make great mic-preamps too...
Looking at the site this is a design where they spent a lot of time finetuning all kinds of details to make a great preamp. The use of BB opamps is just one of those details.
Building a preamp with the same opamps won't make it sound anything like this preamp.

 

[SALSA]

same ingredients + different cooks = different meals

:wink:

 

[Guest]

[quote author="BackHand"]To make a "as short a possible" signal path with these Burr Brown.
[/quote]

Hmmm.... It indeed has very short path between in and out legs. My amps have much longer path between first tube and last transistor legs.

 

[mhelin]

Clarity mic pre is based to common Cohen/whatever style of circuit. They use parallel SSM2220 IC's (transistor arrays) with the OPA604 op amp. Read more here:
http://www.dacs-audio.com/Documentation/micamp_sos_rev.htm
->Hardware
They seem to use a lots of trimmers.