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Title: AKG 391's..UA-5 warm or presance?
Post by: phishn on October 24, 2003, 08:30:20 PM

Any experiences with this combo?  I know its usually preference, but which pre seems to work the best with the AKG 391's?

Title: Re:AKG 391's..UA-5 warm or presance?
Post by: BCostigan on October 24, 2003, 08:41:31 PM

you know my vote...but more importantly 2 more posts and ya get to give + and/or - T  !!  :D

Title: Re:AKG 391's..UA-5 warm or presance?
Post by: clarson on October 24, 2003, 08:50:30 PM

I've heard some shows with the warm mod and they sound great. Oade (if that matters) suggests w-mod for the 391's.

Title: Re:AKG 391's..UA-5 warm or presance?
Post by: Phil on October 24, 2003, 10:01:32 PM

I've ran the w-mod 391 combo for a while.  Differnt situations they could sound really good, but overall all a little too much bass for me.  I haven't heard them with the p-mod so can't make that comparison.

Title: Re:AKG 391's..UA-5 warm or presance?
Post by: InfiniteOhms on October 25, 2003, 01:10:24 AM

most people run the W-Mod and i'v heard some steller tapes w/ that rig.

If it where me i'd try and dig up a few tapes made with each and listen to them for comparison ... or even better an actual comp tape, but i doubt one exists.

Title: Re:AKG 391's..UA-5 warm or presance?
Post by: caymanreview on October 25, 2003, 07:55:24 AM

i ran the 391s >warm mod and i loved the combo....

Title: Re:AKG 391's..UA-5 warm or presance?
Post by: sexymexi on October 25, 2003, 12:39:38 PM

anyone have 391>digi mod, and warm mod tapes to compare?  i'd love to hear some, thanks

Title: Re:AKG 391's..UA-5 warm or presance?
Post by: BCostigan on October 25, 2003, 03:33:52 PM

I think phishin will have some 391-> warm ua-5 tapes for ya soon...... ;)

Title: Re:AKG 391's..UA-5 warm or presance?
Post by: Kevin on October 25, 2003, 03:45:23 PM

what about 391>DMIC-20?? I ran that for a while and made some great tapes!! ;)

Title: Re:AKG 391's..UA-5 warm or presance?
Post by: caymanreview on October 25, 2003, 04:26:16 PM

best tapes i made with 391s were 391s > ps2 > mod sbm1

but i did some tapes at a local festival with 391s > warm mod ua5, and also did some of the same source with sbd mixed in via the rcas

i would offer them up to anyone that would like a listen

Title: Re:AKG 391's..UA-5 warm or presance?
Post by: phishn on October 25, 2003, 06:46:48 PM

^^ I was going to run DMIC-20 but had some issues with one and the experience didn't leave a warm fuzzy feeling in my stomach to consider another....and I thought it over...I have a laptop too and may want to take advantage of 24/96 so I opted for a warm UA-5

Title: Re:AKG 391's..UA-5 warm or presance?
Post by: phishn on October 25, 2003, 06:59:06 PM

Heres one akg391->warm ua-5 source...

http://www.archive.org/audio/etree-download-options.php?collectionid=SCI2003-04-19.AKG391.shnf&id=5020


4-19-03
String Cheese Incident
Suwanee Music Park
Live Oak, FL

Source: AKG 391's > (warm) UA-5 > M1
Transfer: M1 > Audiophile2496 > CDWAV > Shn

Taped and Transferred by Brian Gore

Title: Re:AKG 391's..UA-5 warm or presance?
Post by: teamakg on October 25, 2003, 07:08:24 PM

i've run both with my old 391's.  the wmod ua5 blows about the stock ua5.  i love my wmod ua5.  so much so that now i run akg480's->ua5(wmod).  hit me up with a pm and i'll see what i can do about hosting some samples.
george

Title: Re:AKG 391's..UA-5 warm or presance?
Post by: phishn on October 25, 2003, 07:38:32 PM

has anyone used AKG 391's with a presance mod?  looks like the majority is warm

Title: Re:AKG 391's..UA-5 warm or presance?
Post by: mirth on October 25, 2003, 08:51:47 PM

Rhys (Hermann2burn) has a P-mod UA5. Pretty sure you can find some of his NYC-area Panic seeds.

Title: Re:AKG 391's..UA-5 warm or presance?
Post by: joeshambro on October 26, 2003, 01:49:33 AM

I'll tell you what would've been nice..  a switchable mod that lets you change the opamp route from warm to presence...  help with certain venues, if using mics that could benifet either way from the coloration...

That and a front-mounted line level control are my only "dream mods" for the UA5.

Title: Re:AKG 391's..UA-5 warm or presance?
Post by: nic on October 27, 2003, 01:00:32 PM

"That and a front-mounted line level control are my only "dream mods" for the UA5."

amen on the front level control for the RCA inputs! maybe even a set of LEDs for help when mixing 2 sources together

Title: Re:AKG 391's..UA-5 warm or presance?
Post by: mirth on October 27, 2003, 01:34:15 PM

Another dream mod I'd like to see would be a switch or toggle that would go from d-mod to stock.... C'mon, I'd like to use my PC to play out thru the USB. Wouldn't you?