I only had one of the 251's here unfortunately. It does seem like a good sweet spot in the lineup, but the Vienna 12's still did a great job! I never had any harshness issues with them.

This was a really rough/basic mix of the song. I ran it through the box and dumped it to my Otari MTR-12 tape machine at 15ips to add some color. This whole song was recorded with the Heritage Audio i73 Pro Edge interface, which I'll be doing a separate video on soon from this same session. We expanded into the the ADAT inputs with my API Console for the drums, everything else was recorded using the built in 1073 style preamps in the i73.

@@MillSounds Oh wow, the overall tone of the mix was great...pretty surprised it was just a rough. Dare I ask, how did you get the API pres into the ADAT inputs on the i73?

Jude Brawner. He's just starting out and hasn't released anything yet.

The Launcher is just like a Cloudlifter or any other impedance booster/preamp. The Laucher needs phantom power to opperate, but doesn't not pass any phantom power to the microphone. If you want to use it with a condenser microphone, you can check out the Launcher Deluxe. It has a a "Saturate Mode" switch that turns it into a passive color box. You still get the color from the Launcher, but there's no gain boost and it doesn't need phantom power to operate (meaning you can use it with condenser microphones). You could look into buying some sort of external phantom power solution, like the Locomotive Audio Copperline that I've recently done a video on. You could plug your mic into the Copperline in order to power it, plug the Copperline into your Launcher, and the Launcher into a normal preamp to send phantom power to the Launcher. I've done crazy chains like that a few times, but it would be WAY easier to just buy a Launcher Deluxe if you want the color for a condenser mic 🤣.

@@MillSounds i just realised it doesnt have the saturation switch like the delux model. my understanding is the launcher is just a gain boost where as the delux is gain boost and also saturation switch. well that makes it more closer to the price of a daking mic pre one which i read good things on.

@@MillSounds thanks. it would need to be daking mic pre one or the launcher delux. looks like more tonal options with the daking whereas only one saturation option with launcher delux.

@@rapfactor1 If you're using a condenser mic mostly, the Daking would probably be a better option (it's an amazing preamp...). The Launcher really shines more on passive microphones like dynamics and ribbons.

@@MillSounds your a champ man i subbed and i think so too. same price. and has it a vintage thick sound like a neve this daking? i have owned portico 5017 in the past and liked the thickness

Their 67 is really great. They designed it to be voiced closer the the Neumann M269, so it’s a little different than most 67 designs (which I think is a good thing, I’ve never been a huge fan of U-67’s).

@ Curious, if you could have two of the ADK FETs, which two? I’m thinking 47 and 251, but……

@ My favorite was the Munich 7, I think it’s a good “middle ground” of their line if you had to just pick one. If you wanted two different one to cover the most ground, just go with the extremes and do the Frankfurt 49 and Vienna 12.

Heritage Audio just got back to me, for the ones who want to know: VU meter is calibratable on the little hole below the input gain 👌🏽

@@MarkHarmer I’ve only had the Amber next to the 013A briefly. I’m only really interested in it for recording music, and the Soyuz sounded WAY better to me. Ambeo was thin and harsh by comparison. I’ve used the rode a couple of time and thought it sounded better than the ambeo. Pretty much all the other ambisonic choices are pretty clinical and accurate sounding mics, the Soyuz is the only musical sounding option I’ve found.

@ thank you - that’s really useful. I use the Ambeo a lot more than I thought I’d do (though I have other nice conventional mics), because the Ambisonic workflow allows so much post-control and as a musician, I’m often recording my own rehearsals with various groups and I can get a decent sound balance without having to (or being able to) monitor. Really useful reply - thank you!

@@1MilkmanDan1 The Launchers do a lot. There’s a high end differences, the low end changes a bit, there’s an impedance change as well as harmonic distortion. Sometimes it’s subtle, sometimes very obvious.

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