hello,
I just got the knobs and finished the G9. I uploaded some pics here:
http://www.3ealities.com/downloads.html
I really want to thank Jacob and everybody else in here for all this amazing info and for giving me the opportunity to build such great equipment, which otherwise I could never afford. I absolutely love the sound, for vocals as well as for guitar!
So yesterday I took the G9 and the G7 (which I had built in summer) to the studio of a friend of mine. He always likes to buy lots of equipment and seemed to be very curious about my new preamp. But the first thing he did was critizise some stuff like the grounding (which I have done exactly like described, I did not have any hum when recording in my studio). And there "should be a digital converter chip directly in the device if this is supposed to be highend". When we turned it on, we got some very slight hum (for me almost not audible), but we found it was due to holding the microphone almost next to the toroids (which I would never do anyway). So his only comment was "this needs to have an external powersupply". And the output pots need to be rotary too (because of the quality of the sound passing through).
He had to admit "it sounds very good" but then his next commentary really pissed me off : "well, 350 ? spent for this is a lot of money. It may just come close to my 200 ? Behringer Tube Preamp. I have heard lots of expensive preamps, but there´s never much difference between them"
And this guy has lots of work and has been a recording engineer for 30 years.
Next I played for him a recording where I did a remix of very badly recorded material. On that I took the leadvocals (I had only 1 track to work with) and sent it through the G9 and this worked "wonders". I was absolutely amazed what the G9 could get out of this horrible recording! Really put the vocal up front in the mix. But his only commentary was "before it sounded way better, the G9 makes it sound very harsh and plastic-like".
I left the studio really frustrated and pissed, at least I know now what to think of this person. I suspect it might have been some kind of envy and not being able to admit that also women :wink: could build studio equipment.
Now I have another question, if any of you have a look at my G9 pics, below I put 2 pics of a "Teletron LWF 70". I snatched this some days ago from my local garbage (wasn´t allowed to do so), but this case was just too beautiful .....
Maybe someone knows what it really is? I found only little info on the web. It says on the back "Pfützner Apparate-Bau" , 1971. This huge scale thing on the front is made by Siemens, looks expensive.
I´m thinking about using the case for a SSL Clone, but don´t really know if someone might pay good money for this on evilbay. Maybe I could try to sell only this big scale by itself, but what is it or what is it called?
thanks for any info,
Reggie
I just got the knobs and finished the G9. I uploaded some pics here:
http://www.3ealities.com/downloads.html
I really want to thank Jacob and everybody else in here for all this amazing info and for giving me the opportunity to build such great equipment, which otherwise I could never afford. I absolutely love the sound, for vocals as well as for guitar!
So yesterday I took the G9 and the G7 (which I had built in summer) to the studio of a friend of mine. He always likes to buy lots of equipment and seemed to be very curious about my new preamp. But the first thing he did was critizise some stuff like the grounding (which I have done exactly like described, I did not have any hum when recording in my studio). And there "should be a digital converter chip directly in the device if this is supposed to be highend". When we turned it on, we got some very slight hum (for me almost not audible), but we found it was due to holding the microphone almost next to the toroids (which I would never do anyway). So his only comment was "this needs to have an external powersupply". And the output pots need to be rotary too (because of the quality of the sound passing through).
He had to admit "it sounds very good" but then his next commentary really pissed me off : "well, 350 ? spent for this is a lot of money. It may just come close to my 200 ? Behringer Tube Preamp. I have heard lots of expensive preamps, but there´s never much difference between them"
And this guy has lots of work and has been a recording engineer for 30 years.
Next I played for him a recording where I did a remix of very badly recorded material. On that I took the leadvocals (I had only 1 track to work with) and sent it through the G9 and this worked "wonders". I was absolutely amazed what the G9 could get out of this horrible recording! Really put the vocal up front in the mix. But his only commentary was "before it sounded way better, the G9 makes it sound very harsh and plastic-like".
I left the studio really frustrated and pissed, at least I know now what to think of this person. I suspect it might have been some kind of envy and not being able to admit that also women :wink: could build studio equipment.
Now I have another question, if any of you have a look at my G9 pics, below I put 2 pics of a "Teletron LWF 70". I snatched this some days ago from my local garbage (wasn´t allowed to do so), but this case was just too beautiful .....
Maybe someone knows what it really is? I found only little info on the web. It says on the back "Pfützner Apparate-Bau" , 1971. This huge scale thing on the front is made by Siemens, looks expensive.
I´m thinking about using the case for a SSL Clone, but don´t really know if someone might pay good money for this on evilbay. Maybe I could try to sell only this big scale by itself, but what is it or what is it called?
thanks for any info,
Reggie
....That's why you lay it all out for DIY :roll: ?
