enthalpystudios
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I was, on recommendation from the very helpful members of this board, going to make a 2 ch. green pre my first project. Problem is that I won't have the cash for a while, sadly. I was hoping to get it done for a an album i'm recording, but it just won't happen.
I'd really like, down the line, to build an la2a and/or an 1176, but for now, I was trying out my electro harmonix black finger as an insert on vocals. It's a opto compressor with lamp/led modes, variable input and output gain, compression (threshold?) and normal/squash modes (ratio?).
It's got promise for helping the vocal sound, but it breaks up very easily. I'm wondering if theres anything I can do so that it doesnt distort the signal like a guitar amp might.
Perhaps someone has a schematic for this unit.... I've been scouring the web and have found only one that I can't even make out, hand drawn and all.
If someone has one, perhaps someone might also have an idea for cleaning up the gain stages, and perhaps controlling the breakup from the tubes?
Sadly it's the only hardware compressor I've got, and it has, if anything, shown me how nice hardware compression can sound on vocals during tracking...... my eyes are finally starting to open up from the dark ages of my only hardware/signal chain being macke mic pre's, and possibly it's god awful (for most things) eq.
Anyway, thought maybe someone has modded one of these, or maybe at least gotten inside theirs before.
I opened mine up and discovered a few things, with a bit of applied knowledge gained from the board, but I'm still trying to learn better how exactly one might 'decode' a pcb or a schematic and figure the use of the components, and what they're doing to the signal.
Anyway,
any help much appreciated,
Billy
I'd really like, down the line, to build an la2a and/or an 1176, but for now, I was trying out my electro harmonix black finger as an insert on vocals. It's a opto compressor with lamp/led modes, variable input and output gain, compression (threshold?) and normal/squash modes (ratio?).
It's got promise for helping the vocal sound, but it breaks up very easily. I'm wondering if theres anything I can do so that it doesnt distort the signal like a guitar amp might.
Perhaps someone has a schematic for this unit.... I've been scouring the web and have found only one that I can't even make out, hand drawn and all.
If someone has one, perhaps someone might also have an idea for cleaning up the gain stages, and perhaps controlling the breakup from the tubes?
Sadly it's the only hardware compressor I've got, and it has, if anything, shown me how nice hardware compression can sound on vocals during tracking...... my eyes are finally starting to open up from the dark ages of my only hardware/signal chain being macke mic pre's, and possibly it's god awful (for most things) eq.
Anyway, thought maybe someone has modded one of these, or maybe at least gotten inside theirs before.
I opened mine up and discovered a few things, with a bit of applied knowledge gained from the board, but I'm still trying to learn better how exactly one might 'decode' a pcb or a schematic and figure the use of the components, and what they're doing to the signal.
Anyway,
any help much appreciated,
Billy