Black Lion Audio AM/CHA1 EQ

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Stereo inductor eq with transformers in and out. Seems like a musical eq with vintage vibe for little cash. Build quality seems shoddy according to the SOS review, but we'll see.

Let us know. I'm curious.

Haven't had a lot of time with this piece yet, but I've ran a couple tunes through it on the 2-buss and I'm still up in the air about it.

The good: EQ feels warm with a good amount of heft. Should work well for fattening up tracks that need a little extra body. Thicker than the console eq's that I normally use (Midas VeniceF in Studio, Soundcraft GB-4 live). Also, the top end is silkier than my Midas (can't get away with boosting any top live with the Soundcraft without feedback issues), but not as silky as the Airband on my Nightpro PreQ3 (Maag precursor).

Two small issues that I'm having with it so far are that there are no detents on the gain pots at 0. Having a way to quickly 0 the gain would be VERY welcome. Also, for 2-buss work anyway, the gain range is too large. Just a small tweak seems to give significant results.

I can imagine this eq working really well for guitars, individual drums, and vocals, but I'll have to do some additional testing to have definitive answers. I'll report back again once I've had a bit more time with it.

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Couple more quick details. I've got this strapped on a couple mono electric guitar tracks on a track that I'm working on and like what it does. Still feels a little heavy handed, but less so than on the 2 buss. I was able to cut some lows, pull some muck, add some bite, and finish with a little sparkle up top. Brought the tracks to life a bit.

Additional issues though. My box seems to have shoddy connectors on the back. My initial 2 buss testing just had the unit on a shelf, not mounted in my rack/patchbay. When I got it racked up and patched in ch2 wasn't working right. Huge loss in volume when I shitched in the insert on my console. Of course I thought it was my patch bay or cables. Tried different cables, tried a different location in the patchbay, different patchbay, nothing was fixing it. Pulled it out of my rack again and patched it in unracked, worked great. I moved my chair, unit shifted, signal dropped.played with the connectors a bit, bam, working again.

Strapped it back into the bay. Channel 1 has a huge drop in volume now. Plug the cables in and out on the back of the unit a couple times and now is working fine. Probably wasted 2 hours getting it going, but at least it's working now.

Still undecided if the unit is for me though. I was hoping to get an eq for my 2 buss and I still don't think this is the solution, but for 1k'ish it's a pretty cool 2 channel eq.