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Lance Blair
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Very impressed by the UA. Good deal for $1600.
The ISA One is $500.
Both are terrific for the price!
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Rob Ellis
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| Posted: Tue Jun 12, 2012 7:40 am Post subject: |
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I've actually begun to almost favor the ISA ONe a little more after
becoming familiar with it.
I have another 10 days or so to return it, but after futzing with the various settings and impedances, etc., I'm beginning to think this may be a better
overall choice----not really a step up, but perhaps the better overall choice for what we do.
Plus I have a TC Electronics Triple C compressor that I never use that could replace the compressor in the LA 610 strip (if I decide to sell it---can't see keeping two pres in the rack) |
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rokko101
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| Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2012 12:33 pm Post subject: |
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| Lance Blair wrote: | That's tough to tell Rob, because honestly I think your voice is better and fuller on first one in the first place. There's more low end on the first because your pitch is higher on the second read.
I liked the first preamp though for your voice. It's a tube pre, right? The transformer on the second preamp probably doesn't suit your voice as much.
Yes folks, I can hear the transformer... 
This is an interesting test though, where you can really hear the differences in preamps. |
I'm really impressed! You nailed it. How exactly can you detect the presence of a transformer in a signal chain? I mean, how would you describe it's sonic signature? |
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Lance Blair
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| Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2012 1:36 pm Post subject: |
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To me, a transformer gives the sound almost a very slight distortion. Or like an incredibly fast fluctuation. Makes a voice sound slighty a bit harsher and gravelly. It's character and color for it certainly. I've owned two preamps where the transformer could be turned on an off - Joe Meek One Q and Speck 5.0. On the Joe Meek it just sounded like a bland mini mixer until you hit the transformer. Then it was pretty good. The Speck was super clean sounding, so you almost needed to hit the transformer with that one.
As a piece of VO gear, the ISA One is great. The Headphone Preamp is excllent and you can monitor directly or your computer feed from it. The variable impedance is really suited for VO settings. The HPF doesn't take too much off (it's 80Hz, but some 80Hz HPF like on the True P-Solo is so thin sounding). AND you get a VU meter for giggles. Every VO talent needs a VU meter! I can't work without one! 
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