New Gear Just Released - Mammoth Cave Audio - Presale

Can a Wooly Mammoth be used as a stand alone preamp for recording on software?

This statement is what is wrong with the company. Who can take that seriously? Almost spit my drink out!

Hello guys and thanks for noticing. First time on this forum. I try not to do too much forum surfing these days. I'll try to answer some questions and reply to some comments. To give introduction, I'm an engineer first and foremost. The goal behind the gear I'm making was simple. To make some simplistic, well made and great sounding utility pieces of gear that didn't break the bank, and maybe throw in a few fun creative pieces that I've found useful as well.

In regards to Z-Vex. I'm pretty sure he's not threatened by me nor will there ever be any confusion. If you want the back story, actually I was excited when he came out with the pedal because at the time my studio was called Wooly Mammoth Audio. In my early touring days my band had the luxury of picking up some of Zachery's early pedal incarnations and loved them. I later changed the studio name to the Mammoth Cave to avoid confusion with a studio in Boston. While I had been using the moniker longer (somewhere I still have ancient business cards for proof haha), they had an admitedly nicer studio and bigger presence so I changed names when I relocated to Akron to avoid any further confusion on album credits. I have no moral issues using Wooly Mammoth for one of my products since they really have no overlap. He makes kick-ass pedals, I make studio gear. Plus I am keeping the bastardized American spelling of Wooly with one L, that my wife has been harassing me about for years. Any affiliation with Mammoths has so long been etched into everything I do that it's pretty much inseparable whether I like it or not.

As for the comment on looking like JDK. I don't know that I agree but of course I'm biased. I like to think they were inspired by Bill Putnam's early designs. I was also going for the World War 2 era naval esthetic. Like on a vintage 40's/50's submarine or battleship. Whereas in my eyes, the JDK gear looks like early 70's Vietnam era Army gear. OG green and all. But thats just my opinion.

I build stuff with the intention of pleasing my own visual palette. What can I say, I like classic designs. I hate the look of most flashy new gear. But paint it blue, it looks like a pultec, paint it red it looks like Fearn. Paint it black it looks like Shadow Hills . Good artists borrow, great artists steal or some nonsense like that. I just make t look like something I would never get bored of looking at.

As Jesse already pointed out (thanks Jesse), no the Wooly mammoth is not a preamp. It's right at home anywhere Line Level. Kind of like a hardware compressor or EQ. After pre's, console and interface inserts or outputs and the like. I like to think of it as an extension of the piece of gear in front of it. It was designed to give some of the sonic signatures of a nice transformer output stage, and also has various diode based soft clipping/saturation modes. Although, with a little luck, I will be introducing my first full pre and compressor early this winter. But it's still in early R&D.

Mulmany, by saying "this statement is what is wrong with the company. Who can take that seriously? Almost spit my drink out!"
I'm not sure what you are implying in regards to his comment asking it was a pre. If you want to elaborate, I can comment further.

Where I come from there are no stupid questions, keep in mind not all of us are pros. To me it looks like a two channel preamp, simple enough?

Mobeach, I think it may have been more of a slam against me than you. Most likely due to creative wording on the faceplates and other stuff. Your question was valid.

I took it as a I didn't have a clue what I was talking about sort of thing, I assumed it had two sets of ins/outs on the rear panel like my poor boy Presonus.

2 things, it is a pretty funny scenario "how do get that sound?" "well, i plug in the wooly mammoth...duhh?", i laughed when i read mobeach's post as well, but only cause i thought it was cool.

secondly, hold the presses, i'm an unobservent idiot! i will be picking up one of your passive monitor controllers very shortly! those look awesome and have great guts, and the price is absurdly low man!

cool!

BTW, the 1/8" topside input is friggin genius!

I guess it's funny looking back at it but I was dead serious

ok, now i just went through the site, mca , very creative, cool and totally useful stuff here, the prices are warranted for the cases alone..jeez, if the guts/sounds are happening, in conjunction with the uber cool looks, your gonna do great man!

Check out the Mammoth Cave Facebook. You can get another $5 off if you share one of their posts.

But even The Putmans ripped off Puttman!

How can somebody say you ripped off Shadow Hills?
The have schematics? Bakelite knobs man no you ripped off Edison !

I said your stuff looked like JDK, it was intended as notice, the guys at API can be a tad, umm what's the word snippy? About aesthetics!