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Topic: Sarno Black box; Milkman The Amp; tube mix pre |
Devon Teran
From:
Kansas City
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Posted 7 Jun 2020 11:10 am |
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I got a milkman The Amp about a year ago and love it. It’s become not just my steel amp, but my main amp for gigging and recording.
Lately it would have been really handy to have a tube pre for some recording I’m doing. I’ve wondered about getting a Sarno Black Box. I’m curious how the black box stacks up against the milkman for recording direct.
I’m also curious if anyone has tried to use the Sarno as a mic preamp, and if that’s even really possible. I like the idea of getting one if I could use it for both functions well. |
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Bill Hatcher
From:
Atlanta Ga. USA
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Posted 7 Jun 2020 12:28 pm
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| find you a used sarno revelation tube pre....or..an alembic F2B tube pre....or...if you look at some of the buddy emmons pics you will see a peavey VMP stereo tube pre in the picture.hmmmm. i have all of these and enjoy the sounds that come out of them. |
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Marc Jenkins
From:
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
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Posted 7 Jun 2020 5:00 pm
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| The Milkman is a tube preamp - what am I missing here? |
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Steve Spitz
From:
New Orleans, LA, USA
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Posted 7 Jun 2020 6:42 pm
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| I was wondering the same. “The amp†has a preamp tube, yes ? |
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Gene Tani
From:
Pac NW
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Posted 7 Jun 2020 7:03 pm
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What have you tried? DI and miked cab, different lower gain tubes?
You can look into tube channel strips, there aren't many under $500 and some will not run a guiar input thru the preamp stage (only comp/EQ). This is a reasonable facsimile of a channel strip if you don't want to buy a dbx 676 https://www.presonus.com/products/studio-channel
I always have to say, if you open up the Milman:
DON'T TOUCH POWER CAPS!!!
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- The secret sauce: polyester sweatpants to buff your picks, cheapo Presonus channel strip for preamp/EQ/compress/limiter, Diet Mountain Dew |
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Tim Marcus
From:
San Francisco, CA
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Posted 8 Jun 2020 8:05 am
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| The Amp and The Amp 100 are both high voltage tube preamps. They allow you to take a guitar input and convert it to a balanced line level output with tube gain and EQ. You can run the XLR output of The Amp into a line input on your recording system and thats it. No need for any additional products to get that done |
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