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May.28
2008

Woof, woof!!!

Purple were kind enough to send me a couple Biz Mk mic pres to try out, and the UPS man just dropped 'em off. Haven't plugged 'em up yet, so I can't speak to them at all, except to say that they sure are purdy little things.

EDIT: Okay, played about for a bit. These are, in fact, the Biz. I'll have to do some recordings, but I'll say on an initial examination with vocals and bass, these sound fucking great. They do have a bit of color (and can, depending on the knob settings, have a lot of color) which I would describe as generally "American" in sound, and that's music to my ears, being an unrepentant API lover. However, these are able to do a much greater variety of tones than a typical API pre.

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IS the Purple 2520 Opamp based?

posted May 29, 2008 by Tomer

Purple builds their own OpAmps in a 2520 footprint - there are 3 (!) of them on that board. I wouldn't call them clones, but it would be cake to swap in your fave API/Melcor block(s), 990s or what-have-you. This reminds me that my lazy outweighs my curious by a lot these days. Somebody (else) should do that shit and report back.

...but yes, the biz are the tits for versatility.

posted May 29, 2008 by tubber

"get the SSL DAW-savvy desk"

daw savy consoles as a solution are over rated imo. get a dedicated controller and so long as we are dreaming of phantom cash to blow on the front side of a DAW i say forget SSL and get an API 1608 or tonelux custom console (you can fit all you need in an 8/12 space rack)

i hope the purple's work out for you so then we'll get lot's of posts on your future 500 series purchases.. avedis E27 eq's are supposed to be the business.

link [www.avedisaudio.com]

posted May 29, 2008 by boobs

You know when I was young -- before I did sound at 200+ shows, I might have been able to hear the quality of an expensive microphone preamp. I always want nice ones, but a proper rack full of good preamps would cost more than my car is worth. So I have a few Presonus tube Pres and my motto is 'if it doesn't clip, yer golden.'

On the other hand I have an EMS Putney, so you know where my priorities lie.

posted May 30, 2008 by chaircrusher

Good pre's don't just deliver the highs you used to hear, chaircrusher.
Even the most ignorant musicians (and that is VERY ignorant indeed) will notice the difference between a generic console pre and a good one.

My life requires about 14 more channels of great pre's but it doesn't seem this need will be met anytime soon.

posted May 30, 2008 by penZoil

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