Warm Audio wa-2a on the way.

hmm my sense is yes with the tubes and input and output transformers. Been super busy at work so haven't played as much with the wa-2a as I was hoping this week so far

Yeah, just talking - but at 1:10 kind of confirming what I thought about how it was pretty amazing on the low end of my vocal. I described it more in terms of how it tamed the bloat on plosives, but whatever it's doing down there, it's easily differentiated and absolutely more musical than any plug in my arsenal.

Okay so I pulled the pin and ordered one too!
Pick it up Tuesday.

I have to retrack some female vox on Wednesday.
We experimented with the Flea 47 > Neve 3115 > WA76 we felt her tone was a bit too hairy.
Great for rock but this has a fifties Billie Holiday vibe.

We switched to a Rode NTR ribbon which she liked better but I felt it lost some intimacy and want to stick with the 47 but change the pre and the limiter.

I'm thinking Flea 47 > Mercury V72s or V76m > WA2A should round it off nicely.

I still want the 47's mids but just a little smoother than the original signal chain.

To be frank I reckon an M49 would have nailed it.
Not tonight dear!

Might be Aussie only.. means commit, made a choice.. went with it...

perhaps stems from "pulling the pin on a grenade"  ?

cheers

Wiz

If you are suffering any WA-2A gear envy, just don't tell your special someone bout my hot new unboxing video

Voice over is through the WA-2a: 1-2 db of comp.

thx Martin,

btw you have heard my voice so much, that was my 47=> d4=> 2a no fx no verb.

I bet you can hear the presence ,focus and something extra the 2a was adding; even with just 1-2 db of comp.

Honestly, I read that 5 times and couldnt follow it..

here is how you do it...

Instantiate your IO plug on the track.

Set up the Ins and Outs, to correspond to ins and outs you have connected (half normalled or normalled)

Ping it.

the resultant latency is the compensation.. also enter that figure in recording offset delay, if the IO plug says +36samples, enter -36 samples in recording offset delay.

plug in the WA2A and tweak away, amazed at A) how great hardware is..  or B) why did I spend my money on THAT!!!   either way, make sure to religiously post to newsgroups and unwavering opinion on either... 8)

Now the issue comes when you want to print the track.

I was just doing this.

Here is MY way to do it, it ensure latency compensation under ALL circumstances... if you want to kill a few days, search and read on the topic.. I DID!! its soooooo much fun... 8)

Lets call the track with the WA2A on it WA2A and the one we are going to print to REAMP

Okay duplicate the WA2A track (highlight it and hit CONTROL D)

this makes our REAMP track.

Set the output of WA2A track to an unused bus, e.g. bus 21

Set the input of REAMP track to bus 21.

The REAMP tracks fader and pan will match the WA2A track (critical if you want to keep the mix you were just hearing)

set WA2A fader to UNITY and pan to Centre. turn off any sends on that track.

Set REAMP to record and play from start to finish.

Mute the IO plug in on WA2A track and mute the track itself


this means any plug ins you had instantiated on the WA2A track , latency inducing plug ins for instance... noise reduction, anything.. will be properly compensated for.

The rule is.. when reamping.. you MUST record from a BUS, not an INPUT.. NOT AN INPUT!


okey dokey.. if you have problems.. we can face time or Skype and i will get you sorted.

cheers

Wiz

Thx Wiz, I'll try that out.

I believe Wiz said the Stam does not have the pre emphasis control.

Wa-2a uses modern tubes but if you want you can replace them with NOS and the WA-2a has am empty socket so you can replicate the original tube configuration if you want to.

I believe they are both using CineMag input output transformers but do not know if they are identical parts.

Sent from Chile sent vs a US/north american retailer. Not a biggee, but personally I didn't like the idea of possibly shipping a unit back to chile, if any repairs were required.

I picked mine up today.
Haven't had a chance to give it a run yet but will do over the weekend and will report back.

Just a quick shout out to Bryce at WA. I was having troubles last night (a Sunday evening). I was trying (for the first time) to get an I/O plug in Logic to go through my WA-2A. Everything was working fine, signal was passing but I was getting no Gain Reduction. In a panic I shot Warm a query through the customer service page on their site. Within an hour I got a reply directly from Bryce. Of course, it was user error and it turns out I simply needed to push the output at/from the plug itself to get it to a threshold level that would get the 2A to do its thing. I made it clear in my first e-mail that mine was just a home studio, but his response was quick, dedicated to the specifics and detailed.