![]() I also did the comparison on various percussion instruments and didn't drive the tubes and transformers quite so hard and it got even more subtle. But I don't think you really want to push the Apollo pres into breakup and that makes it a bit apples and oranges. The break-up of a tube pre and to some degree, an input transformer pre like the Phoenix has a signature, even if it's subtle, compared to a unit like the EL or Apollo. It really wasn't that hard to hear differences on the female because she is really powerful and is expert at working a mic. The guy couldn't hear anything significantly different but I don't think he's a real critical listener. I did my best to equalize the volumes, etc., then gave comparisons to the singers. I used the Grace m-201, the Apollo, the UA 610, the Phoenix DRS-8, the Toft ATC-2 and the EL Mike-E. One singer was a 50-something male rock singer, the other a lady in her 30s that is an incredible blues/jazz singer. ![]() ![]() I was doing a bunch of vocal overdubs and had a couple of willing victims, err, I mean singers, and we played around with it over the course of a few weeks. I read it and was a bit skeptical because I believe I can hear a signature for the different classes of pres I own. They had a hard time hearing differences between the contestants. ![]() There was a Sound On Sound article a while back where they did a shoot-out with a bunch of mic preamps.
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