Posted on Jul 10, 2008 01:56 am
Dualflip
Member Since: Apr 06, 2007
Its been a while since my last post but i wanted to share this with all you guys, ok, so someguy gave me some ART V3 pre-amps for free. I really dont like "budget" vacum tube pre's since they only have one cheap tube just to color the sound but in fact is the same thing as an even cheaper solid-state pre, but i said hey for free right?.
So i have another friend that sells vacuum tubes, so i said, to hell with it i got it for free so im going to pimp them out, so i went and bought a pair of 12AX7 Telefunken tubes and threw the Art chinese tubes directly into the garbage and I also replaced the WANG-JIN-FOO whatever electrolytic caps with some Panasonic FM's.
Unbelievable, the sound changed in a huge way, i compared them, when i finished pimiping the first, i grabbed my 57 and sent the same signal into both pre's: one with the crappy tubes/caps and the other with the Telefunken/Panasonic. The sound is a whole different thing, and i dont mean different as in the typical "it sounds warmer and more alive" noooo, a WHOLE DIFFERENT perfectly grandma capable audible thing, starting only for the saturation of the tube, one seems that its going to burst out giving you some crackle and the Telefunken only distorts sweetly, you have to try for yourself.
Both pre's are no near a manley or a tube-tech or any other high-end stuff, but its pretty damn good and not very expensive (around 25-30 dlls to pimp them up).
So my advice is this: if you buy or own one of those cheap Behringer/Art or whatever tube pre-amps, do what i did, you'll be spending nothing compared to the benefits you'll have, it may be kind of troublesome to desolder the old caps and solder the new ones (i dont recommend this if you dont know what you are doing, if not try only changing the tube) but believe me you'll know it when you hear it. Cheers!!!
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