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It's funny you mention it- after getting more preamp agnostic the last several years, I got a TG2 for my 500 rack. It was really the first time in a long time where I didn't feel like you had to squint to make out a meaningful difference. But that means it really has a flavor to it, so I can see ...

I think its cool to replace your preamps every once in a while, if only to scratch an itch. I did that when I consolidated and sold off a bunch of random stuff to just stick with Spectra and Neve, both of which I also use for line processing. I’ve got 6 channels of the Spectra stuff (4 of those that ...

DrAwkward wrote: Mon Mar 16, 2026 10:01 am If I referred to my jizz as my "harvest," my wife would divorce me

Oh god I subscribed to the Telos Substack while all that stuff was coming out and that wasn’t even the worst part. Fucking gross behavior all around. Nasty ass Roman empire horseshit.

Ok, I got the return label I requested (see below) and am done playing around with mic preamps. I will write more about this insane return experience once it is resolved but the guy (who runs a whole ass company) I’m dealing with is either a nice guy with zero phone manners (he’s a boomer, so ...

Well with the M69 and RE16 you can still get them for around $200, but you just have to wait. I mean, $400 for a mic you use all the time isn’t terrible but at that point I would still get something else. It sucks that boomers just park their old stuff for a bunch of money though.

Maybe if Reverb ...

I know I don’t because I’ve been in the same room as people who REALLY enjoy listening to the music they’ve made and its not the same thing at all.

I do 100% make the music I want to hear, but I can’t just put it on like any other record, and I wouldn’t want to do that anyways.

For most of what I do I have a couple microphones that always work for certain instruments, but for some reason I always want to use other microphones in their place. Maybe just to justify having them, but it always leads to inefficiencies.

But I can’t tell you how many times I’ve fucked around ...

Speaking of cheap Avatar cabs and guitar speakers, I have a load of both because I figured out that I could buy a used Avatar cab already loaded with the speakers I wanted for cheaper than buying the same speakers new.

For a while I was buying them for $150 - $250
on Craigslist (at the time) or ...

Following as I could use a Sony mic repair contact just in case. Please report back if you find one and have a good experience!

I think the guy from Russian Recording has had a ton of Sony stuff come through and I understand he uses Peluso. It may be worth asking him. Good luck!