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In article <znr1091149382k@trad>, Mike Rivers <mrivers@d-and-d.com> wrote:
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>In article <8474206a.0407291439.4fa8a496@posting.google.com> Lamebirdy@hotmail.com writes:
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>> I am not sure but i believe that they fed the mic through an Avalon
>> 737 and just cranked it up till it distorts and compressed the hell
>> out of it....
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>With treatment like that, how could you tell one preamp from another?
>What difference would it make?
They all clip differently. Clipping a preamp with a transformer front end
that saturates is very different than clipping a single-ended stage which
is very different than clipping s push-pull stage. They're all nasty
distortion, but different nasty distortion.
--scott
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