Looking inside the unit you will find wires and cables are not chatham house of pizza soldered, but sheathed to their connectors inside little plastic covers, most of which have slipped away, leaving them connected via good will and hope alone. Fortunately, the majority of components are easily accessible and a fault can be identified by anyone who dabbles in electronics. As far as sound quality goes in comparison to other preamps, I would give the Pro MPA II a 7. It’s a great amp, but don’t be deceived by the tube technology! It’s a solid state amplifier with a tube used for voicing.

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Apparently the output section routs all of the signal through the vacuum tubes, so there is no side path for the signal. Hence no differential signal, and no “tube sound” knob. The first thing you will notice is that it does not have a knob that lets you dial in the degree of “tube sound”. But you still can get either a smooth transparent sound, a warm sound, or even a more affected tube crunch, depending upon how heavily you drive the tube section. Electric guitarists who have used tube amplifiers will find this approach intuitive, but others may have to struggle to wrap their minds around it. In spite of it being marketed as a tube compressor, it has a surprisingly neutral sound.

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For me, used judiciously they impart a very pleasing warmth and colour without introducing obvious or unpleasant artefacts. It has that nice blend of transparency and a little magic to glue and bring out important mids. The back panel features balanced I/O in both quarter inch TRS and XLR connections. There is also an operating level switch which allows you to toggle between +4dBu and -10dBV for easy integration with the rest of your gear. Like all compressors, you will need to set some time aside to familiarize yourself with the response of the unit accross a multitude of sources before you get optimal performance from it.

ART make a wide range of useful studio gadgets at affordable prices, from simple DI boxes to rackmount compressors and multichannel preamps. This latest product, the Tube Mix, is a tiny five-channel analogue mixer. As it turns out, for about $500 for 2 channels, there isn’t anything not to like. Connecting was easy and I quickly started trying things with it.

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Through my Recording Workshops, I’ve spent a lot of time advising home recordists on how to track and mix for better results. One of the equipment choices I urge is to have an actual,… The lower right-hand master section has pots for Aux Return, USB Return, Main Mix Level and Control Room/Phones level. A six-section, stereo LED ladder meter follows either the left/right levels or the aux send, and there are further buttons to route the USB return to the Control Room feed or, pre-fader, to the Main Mix.

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But let’s not get into comparing hi-end and budget preamps. Let just take a look at a pre that has gained attention lately. Initially, I purchased it on the advice of my local sound tech as I was looking to add quiet gain to a pair of Apex 205 ribbon mics that I had purchased. After a short burn-in time (for the 12AX7 tubes/valves) I begun to track; the difference was significant and very pleasant. The tracks were smooth, clean and sat beautifully in the mix; the drums “came alive” and no longer had that basement-studio sound to them. The Tubelink2 is an interesting two-channel variable- MU tube limiter.

In some ways I hear it like a very polite version of a 312. Punchy, bright, present, forward, a bit of color, but lacking the aggression in the midrange I hear from a 312. It’s a very useful preamp if you want more color than a pre without transformers but don’t want, or need, to have something very heavily voiced.

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However, with any unit of this type, it pays to try all the presets regardless of what sound you’re working with, as you might find, for example, that the electric-guitar setting works well on a hip-hop vocal. You should also keep in mind that the output limiter is there primarily as a safety feature, though you can create more aggressive tonal effects by hitting it harder. My first test was with a capacitor mic and, as expected, the input impedance made very little difference.