FiveFish Studio's DIY Preamp kits?!

[zildjianmatt]

Anybody have any luck/experiance working with any of these?

http://fivefishstudios.com/index.php/Kits-Products.html

After visiting the site and checking out the audio samples/vid, It got me thinking about taking the plunge on a few of the lunchbox preamp kits.

Ready set go!

 

[zildjianmatt]

Man they look pretty coools! Guess nobody heard/had experiance with em eh?

 

[Kazrog]

I've got the SC1 mk2, it's great. I recently produced an EP for some friends of mine, where all the tones on I miked up with a single SM57 into the SC1 mk2:

http://www.reverbnation.com/carriedbysix

Check out the track "Suicide Doors" to get a good feel for how the tone sounded with full chords as well as chugging. Keeley Modded Ibanez TS808 + 5150 + Mesa OS + SM57 + SC1 mk2 into RME FireFace 800. Very little post EQ. This preamp has a ton of headroom, which I needed, as this EP required a very loud sound compared to most, to compensate for the guitarist's light picking attack by creating some serious "thud."

 

[zildjianmatt]

Dude awesome, that was just what I needed to hear, thanks for the heads up!!!

This forum needs a rep system

 

[mva801]

Can't really comment on the Fivefish, but if you're going the 500 series route nab a couple of these DIY preamp kits: http://classicapi.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=66_68_69&products_id=105

That's a link to the pre-assembled ones, but he sells them in DIY form for $200. Add on a 2520 red dot op amp for $60, and you've got yourself a beefy sounding API 512 clone.