Anyone tried these preamps?

[adclark]

Vintage Preamps

[adclark]

I wonder how this would compare to the Brick?

[Warhead]

Bring your own tape recorder...is that what I read? Or does he have a ton of these I wonder.

?

War

[teainthesahara]

I have one of those, built by Ti Vintage audio. I've never used the brick, so i cant compare to that. It's a pretty flexible preamp with TONS of gain. I can't set it past a quarter turn without it being too much gain. It is not a transparent preamp, but a nice character unit. He uses vintage Robert's preamps, some vintage transformers, and basically makes it a plug and play unit for a reasonable price. The tube's actually begin to compress a bit when you really crank it. It gives a unique tone to DI'd keys, basses and guitars. Very thick and heavy tone. I've been recording with it for a few weeks, tried it out on snare and bass so far....

I can put up a few clips if i get the time.
You can see it glowing away in the corner of this pic...my doesnt have the nice wood panel (they werent available when i got mine)...

[teainthesahara]

Found a clip....
quicky mix of a demo tune.

http://www.nowhereradio.com/teainthesahara/singles

#12.

The preamp is used on the snare, with a shure 545. I'll see if i can find the bass/vocal stuff....

[adclark]

What other effects and gear was used? VTB-1?