CoolCat
Well-known member
I was playing with a dual pre- rack mount piece.
It has knobs and led scales and DI and Pad, LowCut, Polarity and even a output fine tune...
I used to have a bunch of rack gear in and out of the place, cables, crackling knobs, different tones...
but I wonder today, the Mic Boosters like cloudlifter, SE Dynamite, Triton Fethead, and many more kind of remove the need for a rack preamp for gain.
as for FX units like compressors, delays and reverbs, eq......that can all be done ITB with plugins with total recall and zero cables, and ground hums, etc..(not to mention cash outlay).
I suppose history would show the rack gear obsoleting old echo manmade hallway sized chambers and more....distortion amp rack units offering Clean to 5000 versions of distortion with 1000 FX, removing needs for creating sounds and compressors on every channel versus sharing one unit and writing down the settings on paper, with a pencil for recall...
today my rack dual preamp had a little crackling on the volume knobs, only when moving, and the LowCut button isnt working perfectly, actually a couple buttons arent engaging perfectly..... my cloudlifter and Radial JDI dont have knobs and buttons to go bad....they leave the led meters for the DAW.
Actually if Interface manufacturers made 80db gain preamps, I wouldnt need the Cloudlifter or Preamps. ..definitely wouldnt need rack gear from 1980 or 90 with cables and crackling knobs.
Why dont manufacturers make Interface Preamps with +20db buttons and -20db pads?
I'd probably by one.
It has knobs and led scales and DI and Pad, LowCut, Polarity and even a output fine tune...
I used to have a bunch of rack gear in and out of the place, cables, crackling knobs, different tones...
but I wonder today, the Mic Boosters like cloudlifter, SE Dynamite, Triton Fethead, and many more kind of remove the need for a rack preamp for gain.
as for FX units like compressors, delays and reverbs, eq......that can all be done ITB with plugins with total recall and zero cables, and ground hums, etc..(not to mention cash outlay).
I suppose history would show the rack gear obsoleting old echo manmade hallway sized chambers and more....distortion amp rack units offering Clean to 5000 versions of distortion with 1000 FX, removing needs for creating sounds and compressors on every channel versus sharing one unit and writing down the settings on paper, with a pencil for recall...
today my rack dual preamp had a little crackling on the volume knobs, only when moving, and the LowCut button isnt working perfectly, actually a couple buttons arent engaging perfectly..... my cloudlifter and Radial JDI dont have knobs and buttons to go bad....they leave the led meters for the DAW.
Actually if Interface manufacturers made 80db gain preamps, I wouldnt need the Cloudlifter or Preamps. ..definitely wouldnt need rack gear from 1980 or 90 with cables and crackling knobs.
Why dont manufacturers make Interface Preamps with +20db buttons and -20db pads?
I'd probably by one.