Preamp listening test

GeneralBigbag · Post by **GeneralBigbag** » Thu Jul 03, 2008 3:39 pm

These aren't mine, but in investigating preamping/di, I came across some comparison files online on a professional studio's website. A friend and I renamed them and did blind listening tests.
There are 7 different units in the game here, and I'm curious to see how people rank them. It's a mix of high and low end stuff.

http://ookpikk.googlepages.com/fwdfiles.zip
http://ookpikk.googlepages.com/fwdmore___.zip

I'll post the names after a few days.

xpander · Post by **xpander** » Thu Jul 03, 2008 5:20 pm

preamps are the snake oil of the recording industry. G has a pretty decent loss of bass, i made some notes on the others but nothing has really stuck yet.

mp3 compression seems like a really poor idea for this kind of thing, i'm already suspect of their skillz.

GeneralBigbag · Post by **GeneralBigbag** » Thu Jul 03, 2008 6:34 pm

320k isn't bad, and, at the end of the day, you can hear the differences between the different samples.