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by tarandfeathers_Archive
Rodabod wrote:I bought a couple of Neve 1081 channel strip knock-offs from a group buy at PSW/REP. They were ridiculously cheap, and needless to say are faulty from new even though they haven't arrived yet and will need to be modified. Thank goodness for cheap Chinese labour and dodgy design copying skills.
Someone told (tried to get me to go in on them, in fact) me about these. Not to sound combative or anything, but why did you do it? What's faulty about them? I know people were expecting to swap the transformers with Carnhill ones, are they actually non-functioning on top of that? This came about just as I was working on some 1290 clones and I just felt that given the amount of time and money you have to put into even making these things yourself, the pricing was just ludicrous. Plus, I don't like buying anything from China if I can help it.
Don't shun it. Fun it.