It provides power to all modules, including 48V phantom power.The post DIY 500 Series Mic Pre Options (Microphone Pre-amp) appeared first on Bad Racket Recording: Cleveland Recording Studios.500 series modules are housed in a powered enclosure, sometimes called a chassis, rack, or lunchbox.Ĭhassis and racks are designed to be rack mounted, while a lunchbox is designed to be portable (its look and carrying handle are reminiscent of a lunchbox.) If you would like to listen to the sonic qualities of the Hairball Audio LOLA or Classic API VP26 give us a call or set up an appointment to come down to the studio. While I haven’t ever used any of their stuff, I would be interested in trying 1176 style compressor or Neve style preamp for comparison! Offers kits and pre-assembled modules as well. Many 500 series projects can be found here, but not for the feight of heart! You must advance far from the basic finger burning padewon until you a full fledged solder master! Get in there in the nitty gritty of the maths and components involved, or experiment with your own design on one of their common pathways towards amazing DIY projects. Group diy is a maze of forums and endless threads for hundreds of projects. API still makes consoles, and if you’re willing to dish out $10,000 or more, you can own one, but for the rest of us, you can solder your own simple preamp using transformers and op-amp designs comparable to classic API circuits designed by the best engineers in the world, get at it finger-burner style and get some kits for VP-26, VP-28 or VP-312 preamps. The results are faithful to a classic sound embodied on many famous recordings. Luckily every sonic flavor features a different colored faceplate so you can have a rainbow of colors if you collect all the different modules from LA-3A style rain-dog op-amps, to custom input and output transformers the options are limitless.Ĭlassic API offers API style preamps in a DIY kit. They also over 1176 build kits and several Elements Preamps in a variety of sonic flavors.
By far our favorite preamp is the Hairball LOLA, which could be described as a Neve on steroids. (aka the do it yourself finger burner approach!) Hairball Audioīased in Seatle, Hairball audio offers a variety of juicy 500 series preamps. Theres a whole host of pre-packaged preamps from companies like Neve, Empirical Labs, SSL, but for today, we’re just going to focus on DIY options.
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