**NEVE 1073LB (500 SERIES) SHOOT OUT**

[pipaguapique]

Hey Dudes!

I am recording an italian band right now and the drummer (which is no singer as you will hear) bought one of the 1073LB and we decided to do a quick a/b test against the real 1073 and it ended up being an a/b/c test, because we also used the console (Neve 8088 with 31102 mic pres)

Please don't be a gearslut and tell me i did the test the wrong way. i try to make the signal the same level for all mic pres very quickly.
The mic (U47) signal was multed on the console to the different pres and then to an input in pro tools. The files are 24bit @ 88.2

A
B
C

:Spin:

 

[~BURNY~]

I have no idea which is which but B has that awesome mild overdrive that I love. C is the cleanest but still full of warmth and A is in between.

I had to rename the files, they have no extension btw.

 

[pipaguapique]

ups....haha thx man. i fixed them

 

[Adrian Warren]

I prefer B as well.

 

[Siguros]

I'll break your ass into the anus.

 

[Siguros]

I like all of them haha, but why 88.2????

 

[Adrian Warren]

shifts the aliasing errors into the part of the frequency spectrum where you don't here them.

 

[pipaguapique]

HAHA...he was just being italian...haha.

i hijaked one of their sessions to record this, and they prefer to work at 88.2 (don't know why either)

 

[aviel]

i prefer C

 

[DanLights]

They probably believe that old myth that it's easier for the computer to downsample when dividing by 2 than with some complicated number like 2.something

 

[pipaguapique]

^ dude, i hate when they give me that answer!! haha

but these dudes just said that it sounds "better"

 

[Diegel]

So which files were which?

 

[pipaguapique]

oh man...this was so long ago...all i remember was that the 1073 sounded the best. second was the console...for me at least. and the muddiest one was the 1073LB

If im correct, it sould be A=1073 B=Console C=1073LB