New Gear Just Released - Mammoth Cave Audio - Presale

mca shoot! i'm not ready to buy for a couple weeks, do me a favor and set one of those deluxe passive monitor controllers aside for me! i'm gold on it, i just over spent the last couple weeks....mehhhh I guarantee you're gonna get swamped really quick, i'm gonna be bummed if i can't procure that thing....gassssss

Yes yes yes!  If I could ever find time to take a vacation, I'd hand deliver it to you.  I'm trying to find a more accurate shipping calculator to use but i can get a rough guess next time I'm out.  Unfortunately the Wooly Mammoth line is about as heavy as they come. 

Now that you have mentioned it.. How heavy is the deluxe edition??

KJ & winetree Please report when you've had some time playing with the WM Deluxe! Would be great with a few before/after samples too!..
It looks super, but I'm out of rack space and have yet to learn the colour boxes I already have..
Btw mca when you've got used to playing in the NBA and things settle a little, perhaps you could look at designing a Mammoth colour for the Colour palette from DIYRE? store.diyrecordingequipment.com/colour/

Mammoth is the new Mojo

Would like to hear reports also!

mca - how important is the stereo linking function on the WM for 2 bus work? Could you get away with using the standard Wooly Mammoth 2 channel unit since the knobs are stepped? Any issues with phase doing it this way?

Thanks!

Haha! The topic of spending money on gear and how it affects our marriages should be a thread of its own. I think it's a problem for most of us.

A couple nights on the couch ain't so bad when you're dreaming about new sounds....

1.  yes, 4 outs could happen but only on the deluxe size casing if we are strictly talking table-top version, due to amount of space on the rear panel.  The Deluxe has a little more wiggle room back there, but the standard is already packed tight.

2.  Phase reverse could be an easy option.  To be honest, that will be included on an "mastering console" version that is in the works.   I'll leave a lot of the details out of that one for now though.  Polled a bunch of mastering engineer friends and each one of them had a lot of different requests on what they would want to see. 

3.  No worries on no handles.  4 less holes to drill! 

Without handles the units both table-top versions are roughly 2.5 inches (63.5mm)at the rear if you only slid the back half under, but if we are talking clearance at the top of the Knobs, it's roughly 2.9 inches (73.7mm).   If spacing is an issue, you could also remove the rubber feet to squeeze maybe an extra 1/4" clearance.

Thanks for the compliment!  I am not opposed to custom work at all.  That's what started this endeavor    While this one wouldn't be too complex of a variation, I am holding off on any bigger custom pieces until after the initial run so that I can put all my focus on getting the units assembled efficiently.  After it dies down a hair, I will be able to devote a little more time designing custom upgrades and one-off pieces.  I love doing that sort of stuff.   Keep in touch via email if you can.  Thanks!

Unit7,  I have toyed with the idea.  Always loved the guys over at DIY.  I don't own the colour modules but some very close engineer friends have built them all.    I think I'd love them for tracking. If I hadn't been working on my own, in parallel to them working on theirs. I would already have all 4 of them I'm sure.  Their end goal was very similar to mine, and I almost soiled myself when a friend pointed out that they divulged working on a Germanium diode based module just as I was fine tuning mine.   Great guys over there. 

Odyssey, the stereo linking is a great question for you to ask.  I will post more about this on the site when I update it soon.  The outputs on the Twin and the Quad are not stepped.  The goal for those was to try and offer a piece mostly based around tracking, and priced at a point where project and home studios could access it easy, since they are some of the people that need some sort of versatile anti-digital the most. unfortunately, stepped pots added a chunk of change.  In my early prototyping stages, I would just leave both output pots up all the way, witch eliminates the internal resistor close enough to zero that it's negligible.   Also, while the Twin has a little extra room in the middle, the quad ran out of room on the faceplate and a stepped pot was just too big to cram in.

However....

The deluxe is basically my take on what I wanted to make with no holds barred, and no limits on pricing, although still a goal of being "affordable".  While also being more flexible for something as delicate as bus duties. The design principles behind it are simplistic like everything I do, but just includes all the little variations that I had a hard time stripping down for the other models to keep them budget friendly.

All this being said I did stumble upon a small affordable SMD stepped pot that is the same size as standard potentiometer. How they crammed it in that small of a space I do not know    I am going to order a couple for testing.  If for some reason they beat my expectations, they would probably add about $15 per channel to the units but I think that might be a worthy optional upgrade. If it works out, then I will offer it to all existing preorders as well.  It's late in the game, but I'm always on the hunt for fun parts. 

ha!  I should stay out of this one as I've been there too.  I love my wife and she is super supportive.  But when we first were married, on the plane to our honeymoon she busted me buying a Soundelux ifet7 when we were supposed to be saving money.  It made for a very tense honeymoon and was the start to many tiffs to come.   Today I had somebody ask me not to put the packing slip/receipt in or on the box.  I instantly understood why. 

I appreciate your honesty about the "mastering console" version, I can live with what I have till I can evaluate that vs. the current deluxe version of your monitor controller.  Thank you and take care!