best 4 channel pre amp for the 1500

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looking for good 4 channel pre amp. pictures would be greatly appreciated

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4 channels is an odd animal...maybe 2-2 channel pres are easier to match.

Id reccommend a Line6 UX8 but it is 8 channels.
 
The Seventh Circle stuff gets raves and you can mix and match different preamps.

i was thinking about that Seventh Circle. but i'm not so good with a soldering iorn
 
d-rock said:
The Seventh Circle stuff gets raves and you can mix and match different preamps.
i was thinking about that Seventh Circle. but i'm not so good with a soldering iorn
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If you know what end of the soldering iron to hold your half way there!!!!
Just make sure that what ever your soldering is hot before you touch solder to it to make sure your not making a cold solder joint.You'll be an expert in no time with a few practice runs.
 
d-rock said:
The Seventh Circle stuff gets raves and you can mix and match different preamps.

i was thinking about that Seventh Circle. but i'm not so good with a soldering iorn
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Let's just say I'm not the most meticulous person on the planet, I'm always looking for quick and dirty shortcuts. I'm also not particularly knowledgeable about electronics.

However, I built 2 out of my 3 SCA preamps (an API and Neve clone) without any problems whatsoever. The third, my first, suffered from excess beer consumption prior to work and a mangled job undoing a couple steps I foolishly rushed through. Even this 3rd preamp was very cheaply fixed by Tim, the guru of SCA.

While I'm sure the Sebatron and Sebatron stuff is great, these SCA units are really amazing. I borrowed my neighbor's API lunchbox and the SCA API clone is astonishly close it's punchy, has a shimmery color to it - even better than the real thing on many applications. The Neve clone is slightly darker, big and fat and menacing.

You can push the transformer load on both and then adjust the output to set levels.

The preamps have gain like you wouldn't believe, so they can power anything.

Once you buy the pre-built chassis format for $300ish bucks, preamp kits are around $300 for API, Neve and John Hardy clones, considerably less for Millenium and RNPesque preamps.
 
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