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I sold a UA earlier this year and have had the Finally for quite a while; Jake Serek posted his UA for sale on Reverb the other day and I snagged it. So glad I did; it's a killer combo, sounds incredible and I'm stoked to play it more, really can't go wrong with that combo
I still support people buying/selling used units as they see fit to meet needs, but the v2 circuit has been verified and I'm just working on getting enclosures in so I can start offering Finally v2 for sale. I'm targeting end of the month at latest to have the first 10 units ready to go.
I'll have to try it out to see if it would work. V2 needs an extra hole and slot drilled on the side for the ground lift and XLR level controls, and the XLR jack mounts internally instead of externally, so the drilling pattern is different between the two. This would also raise the issue that the labels won't match anymore, as the ground lift is moving to the side and you would have an HPF switch labeled ground lift.
Changes to Finally between v1 and v2:
?? Does it also operate at a higher voltage??
The current v1 Finally was already operating at 350V, and the v2 will continue to operate at 350V.
Thank you most kindly.Wishing you the best on your upcoming surgery! Happy Slamming
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I'm not saying LBA wasn't also a winner, there's nothing wrong with the sound I've been getting from LBA transformers. It's going to be a subtle difference over the LBA that I've been using, like the difference between Jensen and LBA was, but I like the way the frequency response came out, and I wanted a different impedance profile, it affects the feel and response a little bit. How much you actually notice it will depend on a lot of things, and in a mix it may not be noticeable, like the difference between handwired and SMD.
Oh right, forgot that bit. I'll edit the post. That's important.
It does not, I guess to be completely accurate the Finally that has been sold for the past few months has actually been v1.1 which run at 350V, whereas the original v1 like yours are 235V.
The only thing Finally does that UA doesn't is D.I. out, I think the majority of people using both are likely running ampless going direct to FOH.
Yup, pretty much. If you're already using an amp with a UA you can get into the same ballpark with your amp's D.I. output (though depending on the amp it's most likely an op-amp based D.I. as opposed to transformer-based, we won't get into that). The only thing running the two of them together gives at that point is additional tube saturation (if you're looking for that sort of thing). But if you're gigging without an amp, it's convenient to pretend Finally is your amp and treat it as such.
