What's the latest gear you've acquired?

Had a quick run with both boxes tonight. The Creme's bus comp is quite transparent but the EQ steals the show. Just 5 db of boost available on the top and bottom, but it sounds killer on a mix. The Magnetismus 2 is a specialized box, the 3 knob compressor works well for adding sustain to percussion, while the transient shaper adds harmonics to that sustain. At first I was leaning toward the Cobalt transformer for smoothness, but on a track with marimba/bell tones in it, the iron transformer lifted them right out of the track. 
The boxes make a nice pair, basically two ends of the VCA compressor spectrum.

I have been wanting a Silver Bullet since before I interviewed Brad for Tape Op, and that was many years ago.

I sold a rack of 4 mic pres and found a used Mk1 for exactly the same amount of cash. So I went for it. Can’t wait.

Yep, my Coil CA-70s was the best single gear purchase I've ever made in 42 years of buying recording gear.

Enjoy!

Welcome to the club! Since I got Coils, I've sold every preamp ( bae 1073s, Tree Audio, Capis, AML) except for the Olympic Micamp 65s. 

Though I have the CA-70, I still really dig my BAE 1073D. 

U47 > 1073 pre/EQ > LA2A 

It's a sound I love and is so iconic to my ears.

I also have kept a AEA RPQ fet Ribbon pre and a Millennia STT-1.

But my desire for pre's is sated.

The only pre I can see myself adding at some point is the Coil 286 :-)

I had a DAV BG1 here on demo many years ago (the stereo brick one)

I thought is sounded great - I was really impressed.

I’d like to buy one at some point.

For stereo recordings I guess.

Those DAV pre's aren't as squeaky clean as you'd imagine IC based pre's would be, Mick Hinton (the designer) has defiantly managed to get a bit of hair 
in there even though there's no Xformer I/O.

When I directly compared the DAV BG1 to the Millennia STT-1 it sounded very close to the tube channel of the STT-1 not the solid state channel
which surprised me - in a nice way.

The BG1 does have a larger than life sound - it really is a great pre - especially when you think of the quality on offer for the price - a genuine bargain in my book. 

Some might say it's "the Emperor's new clothes" - I have no quarrel with those people

I just picked up a few pieces- Auditronics PEQ-82 stereo eq. This is the EQ from the 501 console but this is somehow different. top end is more open, low end is huge. Was going to fix/flip but I think its a keeper.

Ehrlund EHR-E. Weird mic with triangular diaphragm. Super clean and clear, miles deep low end. I might need a second one.

Uher m534. Great sounding cheap vintage dynamic.

The auditronics EQ is awesome. I sit behind a 26 channel 501 most days and the rack EQ just has a little something that the console doesn't. It sounds "the same" but the extreme high and low stuff feels nicer with the PEQ-82. maybe its the unbranded transformers vs the console jensens (or transformerless depending on which in/out). I can't say for sure but the rack EQ works better on more stuff than the console does.

Love those old gretsch BSTs. Killer guitars!

Finally upgraded from my 2014 MBP 15" running Catalina to a 2021 MBP 16" M1 Pro running Ventura. Waited for all the Plugin Alliance AAX DSP plug-ins to get ported over to Silicon and just updated to the iZotope MPS 6 bundle, which has a couple components that won't install to Catalina, it was time. Looking forward to testing it out with the new twin Carbon interface rig.