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Post by ninworks on Jul 11, 2024 5:36:32 GMT -6
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Post by Johnkenn on Jul 11, 2024 11:24:08 GMT -6
I've really got to try some great river's sometime.
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Post by ab101 on Jul 11, 2024 11:29:28 GMT -6
I've really got to try some great river's sometime. Had so many rave reviews on Lynn Fuston's old site at 3daudioinc. I think it is another example of a piece of gear that was incredibly popular and loved, but is not the flavor of the month.
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Post by ninworks on Jul 11, 2024 11:32:24 GMT -6
I've really got to try some great river's sometime. I think you will like them. I certainly do. Very big and open sounding. I have never used a Neve but I hear from people who have that these are like that with an extended top end compared to them.
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Post by Johnkenn on Jul 11, 2024 11:34:36 GMT -6
I've really got to try some great river's sometime. Had so many rave reviews on Lynn Fuston's old site at 3daudioinc. I think it is another example of a piece of gear that was incredibly popular and loved, but is not the flavor of the month. Also think Dan Kennedy is semi retired? He just doesn't push them like a lot of the whipper snappers
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Post by Johnkenn on Jul 11, 2024 11:35:14 GMT -6
I also covet your BT50s.
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Post by ragan on Jul 11, 2024 13:02:33 GMT -6
Same
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Post by ragan on Jul 11, 2024 13:04:05 GMT -6
And yeah Great River is sweet. Johnkenn I’ve AB’d with other Neve clones like the Stam MPA and the Heritage two-channel one (before they made more budget gear, the DMA73 or something like that). The Great River is super close in sonics to those, but a tad smoother in the high mids in my (blind) comparisons.
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Post by Johnkenn on Jul 11, 2024 13:29:52 GMT -6
And yeah Great River is sweet. Johnkenn I’ve AB’d with other Neve clones like the Stam MPA and the Heritage two-channel one (before they made more budget gear, the DMA73 or something like that). The Great River is super close in sonics to those, but a tad smoother in the high mids in my (blind) comparisons. Sounds like something I'd love.
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Post by copperx on Jul 11, 2024 13:32:42 GMT -6
Isn't it a bit obscene that the GR preamps use two 500 slots?
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Post by ninworks on Jul 11, 2024 14:40:45 GMT -6
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Post by nobtwiddler on Jul 11, 2024 16:50:22 GMT -6
John, do I need to remind you? Thou shall not "covet your neighbors BT50s."
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Post by russellcreekps on Jul 11, 2024 17:22:37 GMT -6
Nice rack! …never gets old
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Post by drumsound on Jul 11, 2024 17:37:44 GMT -6
Isn't it a bit obscene that the GR preamps use two 500 slots? You can just buy the 19" rack version which probably runs at a higher voltage
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Post by ninworks on Jul 12, 2024 4:52:26 GMT -6
Nice rack! …never gets old Oh...Thank you. So kind of you to notice. I'm blushing. I had a rack augmentation performed a couple years ago. My rack went from a size 6 to a size 11. I got the Stam to help push-up my level. Kind of brings new meaning to the term "low cut top" doesn't it?! Does it make my BT look fat? If you are going to perform in audio porn you gotta have a big rack and a world Class A. AC/DC...nobody cares. (I did that for you chessparov)
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Post by doubledog on Jul 12, 2024 6:57:08 GMT -6
I'd been wanting to build one of those CAPI 511-VPR racks, but they are never in stock.
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Post by ninworks on Jul 12, 2024 7:15:25 GMT -6
I check Capi's Facebook page everyday to see what they have in stock. Even when I'm not in the market for something. If you think you'll have an eventual need you have to get it when it's available. The last time I bought a 511 rack I bought 2 and then decided I wasn't ready for the second one so I sold it. I should have kept it because now I need it.
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Post by ninworks on Oct 15, 2024 19:22:12 GMT -6
Capi has 511 rack kits in stock right now.
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Post by poppaflavor on Oct 15, 2024 19:33:51 GMT -6
Holy smokes those are awesome looking transformers. I gotta check out GR!
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Post by thehightenor on Oct 16, 2024 1:42:22 GMT -6
Well done and …. Don’t buy another 500 series rack …. Or any rack, they trigger a “football card” collecting mentality! I’ve filled all my racks now. That’s it I’m done. It’s a good feeling and good for your wallet too What sources do you favour your GR pre’s on?
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Post by ninworks on Oct 16, 2024 7:31:56 GMT -6
Well done and …. Don’t buy another 500 series rack …. Or any rack, they trigger a “football card” collecting mentality! I’ve filled all my racks now. That’s it I’m done. It’s a good feeling and good for your wallet too What sources do you favour your GR pre’s on? Anything really. It depends on the song and what the dominant element is going to be. Acoustic guitars shine using them. I always use the GR's for those. They have a wonderful extended top end with a well rounded bottom end to boot. Super clean but can get dirty when pushed. I don't have the space to record drums but if I did, kick drum would be a good fit with them. Big, fat, bottom end. I run drum samples through them as well as my Focusrite ISA428. Bass guitar sounds good through them as well. Sometimes I run the Ox Box line output through them for electric guitars but I use the API's for that most of the time. Depending upon the particular voice, it's a trade-off between them and my API 312's. The API's sound better on my voice. I need all the help in the upper mids I can get and the API's do that well. I know all too well about the football card collector thing, but there are still a few more items I would like to have hardware for. I'd like to try a couple CAPI VP28 mic pre's. Maybe try out some CAPI Audio Bacon units for my mix buss. I also want a couple channels of hardware transient designers. I certainly don't NEED another rack. It's mostly a GAS thing. I haven't decided if I'll pull the trigger on another 511 rack yet. I went to Vintage King in Nashville a couple weeks ago and auditioned studio monitors. I didn't buy anything because my studio is disassembled and in storage until the fire damage at the house is repaired. Still living in a hotel at this point but I have my rack with all (well most) of my gear in it with me. I also went to Gruhn's Guitars in Nashville and played several tens of thousands of dollars of acoustic guitars last week. I played a Guild D50 that almost followed me home. It was spectacular. I have played a number of them over the years and THAT one was really special. It was the best sounding guitar I played that day by far and I played many that were far more than twice its price.
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Post by doubledog on Oct 16, 2024 7:50:21 GMT -6
Capi has 511 rack kits in stock right now. nice, I wish I "needed" one right now, but I don't. I actually have 2 slots open right now, and "empty slot syndrome" is real, so if I had more slots, I'd have more problems, ya know?
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Post by ericn on Oct 16, 2024 11:28:47 GMT -6
The Voice always makes me dizzy all those chairs spinning. Why I would need some serious time in Snoops dressing room first😁
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Post by chessparov on Oct 16, 2024 12:22:04 GMT -6
Hey Yoose Guys. I thought at first, this was really a Thread about Sinatra! Now listen up Gear. Make like Mr. Chesterfield and Satisfy! Holy Smokes. Chris
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Post by ericn on Oct 16, 2024 14:24:45 GMT -6
Hey Yoose Guys. I thought at first, this was really a Thread about Sinatra! Now listen up Gear. Make like Mr. Chesterfield and Satisfy! Holy Smokes. Chris I thought he either meant Mel Blanc the man of a 1000 voices “ I say I say” Or Steve Perry, 😁
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