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Not right for my voice
Posted by Hesgotpipeskid from Northern Cali - Bay Area on Jan 1, 2009
Experience w/product: I own it
Reviewer's Background: Active Musician, Recording Artist, Vocalist
Reviewer's Play Style: EVERTHING
I purchased this pre after I got my bluebird and it just didn't work for me. I'll be honest it was very transparent and good with loud vocal non-coloration but its NOT warm at all its very transparent but very harsh almost metallic, not smooth. I've heard that if you're going tube mic get a solid state pre and if you're going Solid State mic go tube pre in this case I would agree. I also tried the BlueTubeDP and for my taste not warm but you can make some killer RATM vocals with the tube distortion.
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The sound of Green for very little green!
Posted by David from Kansas City, MO on Aug 6, 2008
Experience w/product: I own it
Reviewer's Background: Home-Recording Engineer
Reviewer's Play Style: Jazz, R&B, Fusion
This pre instantly reminded me of the Focusrite "Green" preamps that I had used in past studios. Excellent, clean sound with very usable features. I don't find myself using the mid-scoop eq very often, but it's handy when needing to remove an offending tone. HPF and compressor are VERY useful, and the "squash" mode of the compressor is very interesting when using the unit as a direct box for bass. Bottom line... same great sound as higher-end Focusrite preamps for a fraction of the price. Great unit.
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Great Pre
Posted by arath125 from Wilmington, DE on Nov 2, 2006
Experience w/product: I own it
Reviewer's Background: Recording Engineer, Active Musician
Reviewer's Play Style: Rock, Alt Rock, Punk,
This thing is nice. I have only had it for about a week, but I am very pleased. Haven't really used the mid-scoop EQ yet. The High-pass filter is great and the compressor is very easy to use for someone with little experience with compression. My only complaint with the compressor is that I wish that there were a ratio knob, but oh well. The no-latency monitoring is NICE, just what I needed. The selectable display meter thing is a nice little touch. Makes vocals and acoustic guitar sound great with my AKG condenser, but this thing stands out for bass. Really great for adding some punch and overall gain to your bass tracks. One more thing-- my bass uses single coil pick-ups (Epi Thunderbird IV) and it generates quite a hum through this strip when I engage the "Inst." button, but minimal noise when it is simply a line in... Don't know if its the bass or the channel strip. Otherwise, I am in love with this thing, I recommend it. Can't wait to record with it this weekend!
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Great Unit!
Posted by sf_rog from San Francisco on Oct 18, 2006
Experience w/product: I own it
Reviewer's Background: 20 years active musician
Reviewer's Play Style: alternative / psychedelic ROCK
Awesome pre-amp. We were using 2 Joe Meek pre-amps in the studio that didn't have enough gain, that had obnoxious pumping compressors, and overall put out a pretty frumpy sound. With this Focusrite unit, the difference is night and day. I LOVE the way this unit is set up. If you read the simple instructions and follow them, getting a good clean, well-articulated signal is easy . . . with plenty of fudge room. The compressor on this thing is excellent, transparent, and very musical. It's also very simple to operate. It's designed so you can't get yourself in trouble with the settings.
It makes me wonder what an Avalon or some other real fancy mic pre sounds like. Some day . . .
In the mean time, I highly recommend this unit. For the price, you can't go wrong. Buy it already!
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Very nice channel strip
Posted by Homestudioguy from Central Illinois on Jun 26, 2005
Experience w/product: I own it
Reviewer's Background: Former Orchestral and on-call Union Hall musician
Reviewer's Play Style: Played many. Like Jazz/New Age/Classical/Country
I'm just a home studio guy with an ART Tube MP Studio, an ART MPA Gold and an ART Pro VLA running into my Yamaha AW16G. I recently purchased this Focusrite Trakmaster Pro primarily because it is a Focusrite and is within my current budget. I would love to own the Focusrite VoiceMaster Pro but this will certainly do for now. It has a great sound and allows me to run program signal through my Lexicon Processor back in to the Trakmaster via it's latency free monitoring section. The mid-scoop eq provides me with enough parameter to tame the Studio Projects C3 when necessary, assist the RODE NT2 a little , and smooth out even more the incredibly smooth sE 2200A. I really like having the XLR on the front and the pre amp is incredibly clean. The pushbutton multiple metering modes is also very nice. I am glad MF is selling these. (Now if they'd only pick up the sE Electronics microphones.........)
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