SCA: N72

Why yes, we have purchased a Neve clone from SCA.

Be prepared.

The Long-Awaited Preamp Shootout!!

Yes, we have finally waded through the murky, and uncharted-since-university-3-years-ago waters of the first half of a real academic semester, and we are here to boast the results of a preamp shootout that took place over a month ago, that we just haven't had time to share.

[Yeah, I know, worst excuse ever. The actual scenario was that AR and I got abducted by the Digidesign gods.... and... and... yeah, no, I've got nothing.]
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The C84 was amazingly easy to construct. It took us about 4-5 hours total, and it worked on the first try.

Here is our PCB in the "final" stages:


Just as we had opened what we call our "Final Stage Beer"... we discovered that we had 17 more pages of wiring the damn thing to the power supply in the chassis. No pictures of that part... we were a little too annoyed to take pictures, so we probably supplemented that with another "First Stage of Final Stage Beer":


Andddd... we jump to the ultimate tier of construction: Completion with functionality! You can tell it works from the giant LED... you see it there? Yeah you do.



Here it is ladies and gentlemen, the shootout:

Mbox2 with Focusrite preamps:


Seventh Circle Audio C84:


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Coming soon to We-Verb (no, really):

- We will be doing a couple microphone mods... a minor one and a major! More details to follow.