Summit Audio 2BA-221

[Fab4ever]

Anyone out there have one or use one? Like a lot of folks, I'm in the market for a $500-$600 single channel pre that would be my "gold channel" for vocals. (Have a DMP2 for stereo/acoustic gtr needs). I'm thinking Brick, Safe Sound, Joemeek SixQ or mebbe OneQ.....

But Summit, which tends to make much more expensive units, has this one around $600. Anyone have any thoughts??

 

[cominginsecond]

I really like mine, but I haven't used those other units.

It can go from very clean to quite colored.

 

[Fab4ever]

Do you use it on vocals specifically?

Also, do you increase the color by using the tube output? Is there a way to adjust the tube "color" based on level or volume?

 

[cominginsecond]

Do you use it on vocals specifically?

Also, do you increase the color by using the tube output? Is there a way to adjust the tube "color" based on level or volume?

Yes. I use it on most of my overdubs.

To make it sound more tubey, you turn down the solid state input stage and turn up the tube output stage.