Warm Audio WA73-EQ thoughts/opinions?

I used to have a client list of 4 label studios years ago. But I have been on the fence releasing a website for it verses doing it the way I used to do it: I would travel to the studio, do repairs and on modifications, customize it for them for their applications and hardware setup. Because I can come with generic mods. However, customizing it to work better with the other equipment seem to yield nicer results.

I haven't found a picture of the inside of their mod to give you a commentary on their mod. But I can give you a commentary of Warm's build. Looking at their build really reflects on how well they tried cloning it.

 

Looking at their stock warm build, the most important things to get the sounds are the tantalum and polystyrene caps (which both have good sounding surface mounts available and I think BAE and others uses that with better polymer electrolytic caps)  The electrolytic they stuffed in as well as the box polyester and polypropylene film caps is probably an ok combination and probably wouldn't need a gross recap. The all metal film design, I would replace with the mixture commonly used in the consoles (low noise carbon film and industrial metal films)  Then evaluate and touch up the EQ caps if it needs it. For me, I don't look into gross replacing things as a way to do a modification, rather I mod to try to achieve the desired results instead of a generic improvement. The tantalum and polystyrene capacitors, I want to say, is 80% of the Neve sound, the transformers, somewhat but there are a lot of nice transformer combinations that work just as well as the Carnhills, but the resistor combination is really the other part of the signature sound. I would have to say, it would be in the neighborhood of $250-$300 for a decent mod.