Folcrom Users: Need Your Input.

[dgrady76]

Planning on using the Folcrom as my summing unit. I need some help deciding which preamps to get for the makeup gain.

My 610s are too soft, and everything else I own is just not high-fi enough for a final stereo mix. I've read varied opinions on what to use on the end of the Folcrom, there seems to be no "go-to" preamps. I love formats before there is a conventional wisdom, but I don't have the cash to experiment with a wide variety of boxes.

So what preamps are you guys using with your Folcroms and why?

Thanks again.

 

[chris-from-ky]

I'm going to hijack the thread for a sec and ask something in addition to the questions already posed.

If you have more than 16 tracks to sum, you'd obviously need two folcroms but then you've got 2 sets of left and right to then mix down again. So, I was thinking maybe an api 3124+mb would take care of the problem or something like 4 speck MP5.0's linked together via mix node?

Can Folcroms cascade or is this 4x2 suggestion all there is as an option?

Thanks!

 

[chris-from-ky]

So what preamps are you guys using with your Folcroms and why?

Well, I bet a couple of Pendulum Quartet ME's on the end or a folcrom would be cool. I've never used them but I've read a ton of reviews and the quartets are said to be wicked channel strips. Also Fletcher is selling the mp2-nv>eq2-nv>drawmer1968(9?) chain that I bet would be equally awesome. Good luck!!