UA Preamp
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JeffTD
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I liked it a lot when I tracked vocals + bass with it. Very warm and full sounding, maybe not the best for growls or someone with a particularly full/bassy voice, but a great preamp nonetheless!
Jarkko Mattheiszen
The FU guy.
I've liked it a lot on vocals. Wouldn't probably be my first choice for drums or hi-gain guitars if there was something like API312's as an alternative, but a really solid preamp nonetheless. I've also used an 8110 on cymbals and overheads and it sounded really nice.
For guitars and some kind of vocals, drums in general I like my api A2d a lot, I'm in search for a good channel preamp to use with clean voc that have a different caracter than api...i'm intrigued also by the new 4 channel 710 ua preamp but I don't know how is the best choice.
JeffTD
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Clean vox + clean gtr, bass, and stringed instruments would be good.
I can attest to the low headroom - we used it on a kick drum for one project and ended up with 2-3 hits per song that I had to manually replace with samples from the kick because it clipped on the very hardest of hits regardless of what we had the gain set to.
What I really want to check out is the 6176 - if the compressor is really a true 1176, then it'd be great for other processing as well!
I can attest to the low headroom - we used it on a kick drum for one project and ended up with 2-3 hits per song that I had to manually replace with samples from the kick because it clipped on the very hardest of hits regardless of what we had the gain set to.
What I really want to check out is the 6176 - if the compressor is really a true 1176, then it'd be great for other processing as well!
Jarkko Mattheiszen
The FU guy.
If you already have the API, the UA will probably be a really good companion
Yes, but I'm a bit scared about the low headroom.....also i think at the daking mic pre/eq singl channel...but again i hear a lot of complain about electronics issues......
Brett - K A L I S I A
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Love mine, never had any issue. Until June 30th you could also buy a 6176 and get a free UAD-2 quad with it ($1499 value), hard to argue with this!!!
might want to check out the great river me-1nv for vocals and guitars. it's awesome on vocals and guitars.(and everything lol) pair it up with a good comp like a distressor/1176 and it's hard to beat.
Brett - K A L I S I A
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excellent on vocals but like everyone mentioned, lower headroom. Its not like it'll straight up ninja-fuck you, you just need to be aware of your signal going in. Other than that, a VERY nice sounding pre. Also works great on bass and actually pretty damn killer on high gain guitars .. you just need to play around with it
