Todd -- great to see you sunday nite -- psyched to be getting back into the game.
My recording of sunday's show came out nice. I had some HARD overs during drums (now I know how to run the ua5's levels
) so I'm probably not going to seed the entire show, but am happy to let folks grab it/excerpts from it from me once I track it out. I gave my address to the guy running the m300>v3 he should be sending me disks shortly. Should be a good comparison, though our mic configurations were a bit different. I ran the m300s in a din config (90 degrees, ~20cm), he ran his at around the same spacing, but pointing @ the speakers.
Per Doug -- here's the deal on the T-Mod (Transparent Mod) UA-5 -- It is more extensive then the P MOD or W MOD. In addition to the basics, I upgrade the analog DC power supply, P48, the signal path including the RCA inputs and use very low impedance caps in the signal path in addition to HQ bypass caps. The chips I use were chosen for their lack of coloration, ultra low distortion & noise plus fast transient response.
My observations so far are that the T-Mod UA5 definitely lives up to its name -- it sounds fast/punchy and quite neutral (transparent) -- I'm definitely a happy camper so far.
Thus, if I get the disks, a direct T-MOD ua5 vs V3 comparison could be very interesting.