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General Discussion / Re: Golden Age of Recording?
« on: May 27, 2010, 12:17:01 AM »
Late last year we reviewed the Golden Age R1 active ribbon mic and were pretty impressed with the performance of this mic especially at the asking price and when we gave the mic a glowing review Golden Age contacted us to see if we wanted to start selling the mic from the website. A few weeks later Bo Medlin of Golden Age asked us if we would like to try out their new vintage style preamp and we were obviously happy to give it a try though the retail price of around ?200 suggested that it would be a fairly "loose" copy of the Neve 1073 that the design was based on.There is a lot of mystique surrounding the area of mic pres with some designs retailing for thousands rather than hundreds but straight out of the box we were stunned at how QUIET the Golden Age pre-73 mic preamp is. We've tried it on everything from drums and guitars to vocals and bass and it just performs faultlessly on everything. I have to say that regardless of the ridiculously low price this is going to become a standard piece of kit for anyone who wants to get into quality recording.