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Avalon preamps

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dikger

Sep 25, 2003
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#1
I hear a lot these days about avalon preamps being used on bass, in the studio by all these nashville cats. I have even seen them used live, in somebodies rig. Anyone have exeperience using them live, or studio? Thanks,
Rich
 
#2
The U5 is amazing. Heard one recently at a show on top of Aspen Mountain. Most of the gear had to ride up in a ski gondola, so the bass player just brought the Avalon for his rig. Wow! It sounded great in the house!
 
#3
The U5 is actually a high end direct box as opposed to a preamp. It has a selection of baked in EQ's to choose from, but no bass, mid and treble knobs that you can tweak. That being said, it does a great job for both live and studio work. I blew a transformer on my b15 during a show, and ended up plugging my U5 into a powered JBL Eon for the rest of the gig. It sounded great.
 
#4
It sounds like that application would work great for my current band. There areno amps on stage at all. Both guitar players run through line6 hd 300 pedalboards. I use a basspod pro. We all use inears for monitoring.
 
#9
HolmeBass said:
I personally don't dig the U5, except the "no filters" option. I know plenty of folks who dig the built-in filters on it.

Now the vt737sp, that's a thing of beauty. But way too expensive and fragile to gig with, in my opinion.
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Not as fragile as you'd think, as long as you're not dumping it out of the back of a truck on the highway.

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