I finished my second VP26 preamp this week. It’s ready for testing and then studio work. The first one was done a month or so ago, but I didn’t have time to write a post since I took it straight into a week-long remote recording session. The VP26 sounds excellent on snare drum – I dialed in just a taste of input stage crunch and controlled the output level with the attenuator. With an SM57 on the top of the snare and a blackface UA 1176 compressor afterwards, it sounds just like a snare should sound.
Finished VP26 preamp #2
Next, I’m building two Classic API VC528s, and then two JLM BA 500s.