Topic: V3/Oade-warm-mod-UA5 comparison

[Brian]

mid-80s huh? damn. see ya learn something new everyday.  

and good points MattD. I keep forgetting just how old the V3 is...and i didn't know it was the 1st portable 24/192 capable pre/ad.

see this is why TS.com rules. always learning something.  All i have to do is ask a few skeptical questions and i get answers from people who know more than i do.

my whole main point was that i truly don't believe there is a $1000 difference in terms of sound quality between the V3 and w-mod UA5 and i don't think i'm alone when i say that. And this is probably the heart of Grace's problem when it comes down to seeing a profit from the V3. In my mind these comps tapes are hurting the V3 but then again tapers aren't the only people on the planet that use one.  Something tells me no professional in any career where it is necessary to have a field pre/ad is using a w-mod UA5. but as this thread has proven i can be wrong.

[Nick in Edinboro]

while recording, is it normal for a slight digi-static to be introduced while adjusting mic

Not in my experience, did you have your's done by Oade or do it yourself?

[Brian]

question about the d-mod UA-5:

while recording, is it normal for a slight digi-static to be introduced while adjusting mic gain?

definitely not normal.  

[nic]

its not mine, but twatts' and he had the digi mod done by Oade.
hmmm.....

this is weird as everytime I have patched or listened to a UA-5 sourced recording, there has ALWAYS been some anomoly that makes me think the UA-5 isnt that good, but everyone here keeps "fluffing" them....
do I just happen to know the only people who have flawed UA-5's???

[DaryanLenz]

This thread makes me very happy that I will have my mini-mp in a few days just to be different!

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[Brian]

its not mine, but twatts' and he had the digi mod done by Oade.
hmmm.....

 
 

Send it back to Doug and I'd be willing to bet he'd fix it free of charge or give a new one entirely.  seen it done before back when first started lurking the Oade board.

[twatts (pants are so over-rated...)]

Hey there everybody,

I thought I had typed out an answer, but it got lost...

Anyways, the digi-noise Luvean is referring to occured during the first few seconds of Lake Trout at the Brewery in Raleigh a few weeks ago...

It occured when I CRANKED the gain DOWN fast and hard, from about the 5pm position to the 11am position...  Did this is one swift turn...

I have had NO NOISE since, even this past friday when I was "rollercoasting" the gain (up and down, up and down).  I was doing only my second true AUD tape and the first where I paid attention so I was really playing with the mics and gain and stuff...

Yeah, the biggest problem I got out of it last friday was turning up too hot and then accidentally fat-fingering the phantom power, turning it off and causing drop out for about 10 seconds...

Terry

[junkbondking]

wow you start your ua-5 at 5pm position i start mine for most rooms around 1:30.... where are u taping

[Kindguy]

I usually never get past 12:00....almost always right under it

[nic]

terry, the static noise is in more places than just the very beginning.
every time the gain was adjusted there is a little bit of static on the tape

[twatts (pants are so over-rated...)]

No, I don't start at 5pm NOW.  And I'm not sure why we had started so hot that night...  Chalk it up to inexperience - I'd only had the UA5 for about 3 or 4 days before that night...

Now I actually start at noon and work from there...  Usually up...  I ended up at about 3-4pm for Larry Keel this past friday after starting at 1pm...

But I have noticed that my mics go from non-existant to pretty good to damned loud all in about two "hours" on the UA5 gain...  I'm sure its the LEs I have, but it seems kinda touchy...

Terry

[Brian]

in my experience the gain knobs on the UA5 have always been touchy after about the 1pm mark.  took me a while to get used to it. really makes hittin right at -1db damn near impossible...

[nic]

t, is the -10db pads still on? maybe thats why the gain is turned up so high?

[twatts (pants are so over-rated...)]

Oh, I remember, we had turned on the -10db pads for Trout, maybe that's why we had it turned up so hot to begin with...

The Brewery is very bass heavy for a venue...

Terry

[BCostigan]

Never knew pm and am made a difference on the knobs!