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Post by winetree on Nov 13, 2013 18:50:23 GMT -6
Has anybody tried this gear? Wonder what they sound like at these prices?  Tube Preamp and compressor $367.00 Stereo Tube compressor $461.00 Attachments:
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Post by Ward on Nov 14, 2013 10:21:10 GMT -6
Might "SM Pro" be an abbreviation for "Semi-Pro"?
I'm just thinking, "At those prices, it can't be "high end".
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Post by tonycamphd on Nov 14, 2013 11:30:37 GMT -6
love to see the insides, that says a lot about what you can expect. These look cool, don't know about the writing being vertical?
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Post by Guitar on Nov 14, 2013 22:27:12 GMT -6
interesting
my only input is I am an M Patch 2 devotee, love the thing for the $$, and I constantly get compliments on my HP6E headphone amp
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Post by Deleted on Nov 15, 2013 0:30:05 GMT -6
Presonus had a stereo pre called the BlueTube or somethin' like that. it had a knob that let you blend between tube and solid state preamplification. it was around $200 or 250. it didn't sound great.
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Post by Guitar on Nov 18, 2013 22:26:23 GMT -6
I see two SM Pro PM8 passive summing mixers in my future... 8 channels each with pan! that's a 16 channel analog mix buss for under $700. easy mono comp/eq insert per channel that way--too many summing mixers work in stereo pairs only. makeup gain with whatever I want. I'm vaguely excited to try this out in the next few seasons. I might even try patching in my Neve/API preamps per channel, with appropriate padding, to "fake" a mixer, I mean, Large Format Analog Console. Wow what a cool idea! It's going to take a while to get the EQ and Compressors built though, on my limited budget. All on a normal sized study desk with rackspace. I'm not sure how ITB FX sends will work, this is definitely not the same thing as a full featured console. Summing boxes seem strangely anti-conducive to hardware EQ/Comps/FX/Reverb. Almost like you should mix in the box with a summing chain, or, mix with hardware outboard on AD/DA converter loops, and no summing chain. Or I guess to solve for both, just buy a huge AD/DA conversion rig and probably a big patchbay.
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Post by Guitar on Nov 19, 2013 1:56:58 GMT -6
on second thought, I'll build my own passive summing box, with a bunch of Edcor transformers like the BLA unit. I want the ITB recall of no pan/level pots, just the extra coloration and analog summing. The SM Pro's precision is badly reviewed regarding centering of mono and stereo sources. I'm just curious to see how much difference something like this makes. A little could be a lot, you know, the way these things go.. dozens of these designs on the market must mean something
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