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11/09/2019
Ce qu'il me fallait!
Je chrechai un preamp style API512 mais le prix etait prohibitif donc je me suis dis que je pourrai essayer le diy de chez Soudskulptor,et j'y suis arrivé.Pas forcement evident de commencer le diy audio electronique en commençant par un preampli mais avec le explication et le kit pas de soucis,ça a marché.Et je vais continuer avec un autre preamp et les compresseurs et eq après,ça y est j'ai le virus! Merci a Soundskulptor pour ses kits géniaux!
10/05/2019
Easy build and great useability
A bit scared off by the component count and being the first time soldering on a PCB, it took me surprisingly only 8hrs to finish this build, although I highly recommend a good iron and following the instructions closely.
The calibration worked great too.
The sonic quality is very good to my ears and flexible for all different kinds of soundsources.
It does subtle works for most of its uses, but this unit is also not meant to radically change your track! Just giving it the final polishes and nice overall glue.
16/04/2019
Does things other preamps do and then some more
How do you evaluate a preamp? I would sort them between the two extremes of "having no sound at all" and having "a lot of sound". The MP 5.99 has not that much of an own sound. That in itself it neither good nor bad, it just tells what it CAN do versus what it can not. For example, softening a sound or pushing it to overdrive with a gradual slope into creamy, buttery overtones.. it does NOT. The MP 5.99 keeps the input sounding muscular and quick, if it's not a mic on a cottonball, see? Let's have a look at the other end of the "preamp-color-chart", a completely 'transparent' preamp, transformerless on input and output, superfast slew rate, super high bandwidth, etc. etc.: these, albeit toutet as desirable, or "true" or "hifi" or whatever lipstick you want to put on them.. are (at least in my world) close to useless without a tape machine. Why? Because they work well on signals that are already close to perfect sounding and at a good distance. Like an orchestra. Put these type of preamp on a snare close mic in a digital recording and what you get is transient hell, spiky, useless, unmusical, anemic. To make sense with such a signal in a mix needs an iron fist, a compressor, a sledgehammer and time on your hands to get all the work done that gain staging or the right preamp (or the transient-eating habits of tape) would have done for you. Me, I'm lazy. I want the signals to be recorded like they will work in the mix. Making desicions now, not later. Not fixing it in the mix. More work at mixdown? NO.
Here is where the MP 5.99 fills a gap that not many preamp makers even seem to recognize: It is clean AND it has transformers in and out. So you can use it on close-miked sources. Even on very, very loud close miked sources. This preamp can take a beating. Where most other preamps with transformers on input need a pad, (which - depending on the mic - will surprise you with a change in sound as well…) the transformer on the way in with the MP 5.99 swallows (shuffling through datasheets..) 10dBU @ 50Hz with just 1% distortion. That's practically line level, kids. You can even jumper the input transformer from 1:5 to 1:2,5 for a little less gain and more headroom. That's like "more cowbell", just better (if you don't get that, do the search engine) It doesn't stop here - another jumper on the output transformer makes it go from 1:2 to 1:1. I'm not even halfway through and there's already a few features you won't find in 99% of all the other preamps in the world. It has a pad with a potentiometer after the transformer, so you can cook the signal a little on the way in .. and turn the output down after the transformer. (insert a few four-letter words here) (or how about "Holy mackerel, Batman!!") Excuse me, if I get a little technical here, but the folks behind SoundSkulptor were thoughful enough to do an Opamp that is friendly with low input impedance. Yes, because of that it can have a low-ratio input transformer and because of that it can take levels that tear your face off. Bravo! (applause!) Thank you, SoundSkulptor! Not only can I use the MP 5.99 on super loud kick and snare without worries, but also on condenser mics with notorious high output. (which includes the usual U47.. and a few hundred others) With the benefits of transformers inbetween. To my best knowledge, there aren't even half a dozend preamps in the world who pull that off….more like, three others. But even these don't got the output-pad… or the super-duper-handy gain range switch. (biaaatch!) (just for rhyming, okay?) What does that switch do? A) low (=input pad, if your signal is broadcast-level line) B) mid (pure gold!!!) C) high (oh, that's what all the other preamps do anyway) So, why is that switch soo handy? Use it with 'mid' or 'high' and when you play it back, you can use it as kind of a mute button, switching it one down to keep the chatter from the tracking room out.
I already got a few other preamps that can do the 80-dBs-of-gain-until-you-puke without the slightest hint of noise, so putting a ribbon mic on a mouse pissing on a cotton ball and getting that up to 0dB on the A/D with +24dBU is no problem. I got a few mid-gain preamps as well (around 40-60dB) .. and I got a few tube preamps that can go from hifi-clean to a marshall full stack inbetween. I didn't have a beast like the MP 5.99.
It starts with very low gain, not with - for example - already at +30dB you find on other preamps. To sum it up: it's a tool that helps you with tasks where your usual preamps don't go. You could use it as the only preamp on an island as well, but then you would need a pretty long extension for your power strip. Soundwise, all is fine. Let me add that I am spoilt with gear, having preamps by Manley, Telefunken, JLM Audio and a few more and I have been putting up microphones since more than 30 years. Good value for the money.
11/04/2019
Cant believe I got it right the fist time!
No rework. No headaches. No freakouts. Well detailed build guide and a great sounding unit. While I've never used the OG SSL this bad boy definitely wins over the UAD emulations for me!
31/03/2019
DI extra
Super préampli, qui remplace, en mieux, mon LA 610.
Super son pour les Basses en DI, avec la possibilité de faire une saturation très jolie dans les bas medium, pas du tout criard (ce qui était marchait très mal avec le LA).
11/01/2019
Wonderful Product
Im not a super experienced DIY electronics guy. I am really good though at soldering cables ;) so it says what over the quality of the kits and the manual describing building it. This is really top notch and if you have time to do it proper and are meticulous with the description its very do-able.
Then the quality of the finished controller. Just one word: Gorgeous: its as transparant as possible and I really can't detect any color which is good in a monitor controller :)
All the knobs and switches feel solid and great. I added some screws to make sure the top and bottom plate couldn't move anymore.
The quality is crazy for the price. Even if you would buy the completed version. Superb!
27/12/2018
MP573 is FANTASTIC!!!
Hello. I just wanted to throw you some feedback (of the good kind). Now that I've had my 573 pre in use for over 1.5 year, I gotta say it's GREAT! I have some other Neve clones and legit API 512c pres and the 573 hangs right with them. In fact, the DI is so huge it's become my go to for Bass guitar. The 573 has also been doing the main vocal tracks on my current project, as well as having some duties recording guitars through Marshall amp.
I'm tracking drums for my project in two weeks and plan on using the 573 with a tube mic for "front of kit" duties and I know it will sound HUGE!
All said, it is a great kit at a reasonable price. It arrived quickly! And JPK is great at answering the tech questions.
I still have a slot left in my lunchbox and am curious about the MP566. But another MP573 is very likely. I can't recommend it enough!
23/11/2018
Perfect! The classic Neve EQ and very musical
This EQ needs a lot of patience and concentration while building it, but it is absolutely worth the effort. It’s the perfect supplement for the MP573 preamp. I use it in my studio for tracking on every single track. It’s so musical that you rarely need any other EQs with more bands. If the sound is allowed to get coloured in a nice way you can even use it for mastering – I did this and achieved great results in no time (faster than with a Pultec). It’s great that the EQ573 combines the 1073 and 1084 models: You have a bandwidth switch for the mid frequencies and more frequencies available for the high shelf. It’s worth looking at the frequency response while using it (with Waves Q-Clone for instance) – you begin to understand why you don’t need more EQ bands for a perfect sound ;-)
I disagree with the other reviewer here: I don’t find it harsh at all (if you use it "correctly"). But as always, you should also consider using it for cutting the frequencies you don’t need and not only for boosting. With a reasonable combination you have a high class musical sound and lots of possibilities.
25/10/2018
Good Sound/Easy Build
For now I have built 4 of them. Every time it gets a bit faster. I really love the sound of them. They are a little bit more mid-dy & lofi when compared to 99ers.
01/08/2018
Awesome!
For the record, I had never soldered before I bought my first Sound Skulptor kit (CP5176). My TS500 is a year old now, and still running strong! I use it on nearly everything as anything from light EQ and coloring to full on tape overdrive on vocals. Can be used in post processing too, but I try to get the sound in the ballpark on the front end.