SonicAlbert said:I got yet another negative feedback from the person. But this time he left a message explaining why:
"You're part of a shill selling thread."
I hate to fan any flames, but I'm hoping that raising a stink might help to resolve the problem. I got the same negative feedback treatment as SonicAlbert:
"These EH threads are clear shill selling, and you are participating."
Actually, I bought my EHX preamp as a result of reading threads on this board and on the TapeOp board. So, if anyone has been duped, it was ME. Furthermore, even if my intention was to participate in a shill operation, I don't really think that offering technical information for solving an electrical hum problem is going to serve to lure people into buying a $200 preamp. To this point, I haven't actually said anything positive about the preamp. So, if I'm a shill, I'm a pretty lousy one.
Now, let's get back on topic with this swindle...er...thread.
I had a chance to use this preamp on a Fender DeVille 4x10 amp this afternoon. It worked nicely with a Beyer Soundstar MKII mic flat up against the grille on crunchy and moderately overdriven sounds, but I didn't like it as much on a heavily distorted source. The heavy distortion patches worked better when I used a Sennheiser E609 Silver mic. The EHX wouldn't be my first preamp choice with this mic and this amp, but it was very usable. Finally, everything sounded surprisingly huge when I used an Audix i5 mic on the amp (again, with the EHX preamp), but it would need some heavy EQ to sit well in a mix. There was also a faint but noticable recurrance of the electrical hum when I used the i5 that I have yet to figure out. It was much more faint than the hum that I got when using unbalanced cabling, but it was still annoying. I'll post a solution here if and when I figure out what's causing it.
Now, if you'll excuse me, I need to get back to my job of selling tonic that makes an ordinary human as strong as an ox, enlarges your penis, and gives you an incredibly low mortgage rate.
- Jerfo