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View Poll Results: What's your favorite preamp architecture? | |
Opamp-based
|    | 7 | 5.43% | |
Discrete Transistors
|    | 8 | 6.20% | |
Tubes, baby!
|    | 85 | 65.89% | |
Hybrid
|    | 25 | 19.38% | |
What's "discrete" mean?
|    | 4 | 3.10% |
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11-06-2010, 10:19 AM
| | | | What's in your favorite preamp?
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11-06-2010, 11:20 AM
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Proprietor Springvale Studios | | Join Date: May 2008 Location: Ipswich UK | |  Ahh!
Luckily I have loads of Pre amps of all types.
Including a few very discrete Neve ones, germanium 1066's and later silicon types.
But This is my absolute fave clean pre it is a 1938 RCA OP-6 it uses 3 1620/6J7 pentodes and a tube rectumfire: 
Other than that I have an old Mesa Studio Pre if I want to get real filthy dirty or quick switch between the two. Its 5 X 12AX7 dual triode tubes and a silicon rectifier.   |
11-06-2010, 12:59 PM
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Maker of HPF-Pre upright bass preamp | | Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Madison WI | | My fancy new custom boo-teek preamp:   |
11-06-2010, 02:40 PM
|  | Fingers, pick, and a little bit of slap | | Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Terrapin country (Crofton, MD) | | | Uhhm... what's in the SansAmp preamps? Discrete transistors?
Much as I love tube amps, the SansAmp preamps sound great and are now #1 in my rack rig. I play all kinds of music, from Motown, blues and occasionally country to classic and modern rock/metal. |
11-06-2010, 02:58 PM
|  | The "G" is for Gustav | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Maryland | | | +1 for the Sansamps. I'm diggin my own design too. |
11-06-2010, 04:26 PM
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Endorsing: Ampeg | | Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Apopka, FL | | | toobz.
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11-06-2010, 05:38 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Auckland NZ | | | My GK1001rbII's pre going into a Hammond Organ aux input (with leslie off) is nice, I like that tone more than any head/cab setup I've used so far, it's totally useless for gigging though. I think the poweramp had an influence on the tone as well so that complicates my decision -but I guess transistor. |
11-06-2010, 11:17 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Davenport Iowa | | | Mine is the Sansamp RBI .
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11-06-2010, 11:35 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2004 Location: Highland, CA | | | 12AX7 tubes baby!
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11-06-2010, 11:48 PM
| | | | I just scored a used Peavey TB Raxx preamp, two 12AX7s, nice thick sound. I bought it thinking to use it for my Rickenbacker, but I think my fretless Fender sounds even better through it. (Hey, does anyone know who made the Peavey-branded tubes in this thing?)
My main rig is an SVT-3PRO, essentially all tubes up to the MOSFET current drivers, that preamp gives a classic overdriven Ampeg saturated tube sound at any volume! I'm thinking of putting the Raxx in the rack with it, and running each bass through its own preamp.
Honorable mention, though, to the solid state preamps in Eden Nemesis amps. |
11-07-2010, 07:28 PM
| | | Some very cool vintage & custom stuff coming out of the woodwork! Quote:
Originally Posted by Fuzzbass  Uhhm... what's in the SansAmp preamps? Discrete transistors? | Quote:
Originally Posted by JGR +1 for the Sansamps. I'm diggin my own design too. | Quote:
Originally Posted by Blues Bass 2 Mine is the Sansamp RBI . | The SansAmps are actually opamp-based, from what I've been able to figure out. Unless someone tells me different...  |
11-07-2010, 07:34 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Toronto, Canada | | | Definitely tubes. 12AX7's are the schizzle fo' mah rizzle.
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11-07-2010, 08:06 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: Napoleon, Ohio | | Quote:
Originally Posted by R. Laevinus Definitely tubes. 12AX7's are the schizzle fo' mah rizzle. | werd son.
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11-07-2010, 11:15 PM
|  | I Know Nothing | | Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Columbia River Gorge, WA. | | I'm the lone guy so far who said opamps in the poll. I mostly play Death Lounge, and I roll my own preamps.  |
11-07-2010, 11:40 PM
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John K Custom Basses | | Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Thousand Oaks, CA | | my Avalon VT737SP has been getting the most use lately so i voted tubes. IMO, its simple to operate, and is clear, fat, punchy, and extremely quiet (noise free) all at the same time.
here's pic of the full rig:  |
11-07-2010, 11:41 PM
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Endorsing: Ampeg | | Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Apopka, FL | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Passinwind I'm the lone guy so far who said opamps in the poll. I mostly play Death Lounge, and I roll my own preamps. | lol at the cow!
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11-08-2010, 12:28 AM
| | I Know Nothing | | Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Columbia River Gorge, WA. | | Quote:
Originally Posted by JimmyM lol at the cow! | This is serious bidness, bro...  |
11-08-2010, 12:34 AM
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Not your average GC manager. | | Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Chicago, IL | | Quote:
Originally Posted by JimmyM toobz. | I'm shocked & appalled! 
tubes.
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11-08-2010, 12:43 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Saskatoon, Canada | | | Interesting thread.....
My tastes vary, depending on what sort of tone I'm after. Sometimes I enjoy the sound of my tube SVP-PRO, with its added harmonic distortion, while other times I prefer the cleaner sound of my modded WT-500. I've replaced the original TL072s with modern high performance op amps and employed better quality capacitors throughout. Now it sounds considerably more open and less colored than a stock Eden. Still, I like the idea of a minimalist design, using just a few tubes or transistors to achieve a pure sound. Some day I may pursue that....
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11-08-2010, 02:14 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Johannesburg, South Africa | | | IF my understanding is correct, the Avalon U5 is discrete transformers, so I voted for that, but I also love the thick tubiness of my Fender TBP-1 and the eden Nav fits perfectly between the two. I assume the EBS microbass and sansamp products are all opamp bassed aren't they? | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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