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Topic: 1960s Telefunken Preamp
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Doug Beaumier
Member From: Northampton, MA
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posted 26 August 2006 07:37 PM
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I recently had the pleasure of playing through an old Telefunken tube preamp in a recording studio. '76 Emmons p/p to Goodrich volume pedal to Preamp to board. Wow... this old tube machine made my steel sound as fat as pig! Just add a little reverb through the board and that's it. I don't know much about Telefunken other than it is/was a German electronics company and the Beatles used their gear in the studios in the early days. The guys in this studio use this preamp constantly for all kinds of things.Anybody here ever play steel through one?
[This message was edited by Doug Beaumier on 26 August 2006 at 07:55 PM.] |
Jim Sliff
Member From: Hermosa Beach California, USA
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posted 26 August 2006 08:00 PM
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No, but a comparable thing..an old RCA tube compressor reportedly used on the first Buffalo Springfield album. I played bass direct through it and it maybe everything more "alive".There's something very positive to be said about the old analog equipment. Cantankerous, hard to service...but the sound is unbeatable. |
T. C. Furlong
Member From: Vernon Hills, Illinois, USA
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posted 28 August 2006 09:38 AM
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Electronics manufacturers got their tube stuff really together in the '60's and then they came out with solid state transistor circuits in the late 60's and early 70's. They sounded awful at first and then they got the discrete transistor circuits sounding really good. Then they came out with integrated circuits. They sounded really bad at first and then they got that sounding better. But the later pro tube gear is hard to beat if you like the coloration and "good" distortion. I certainly do! Telefunken distributed the Neumann U47 microphone in the US The Telefunken U-47 long body is probably the most sought after vocal microphone on earth.
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Bill Hatcher
Member From: Atlanta Ga. USA
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posted 28 August 2006 12:04 PM
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Bill Porter who was the engineer at RCA during the early 60s told me that the custom made console in Studio B had the Telefunken pres in it. You hear those on so many classic recordings from the 60s. |
Chris Cummings
Member From: England
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posted 28 August 2006 03:45 PM
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Yes !
Ive got a tele v76 and a v72
v76 more gain I use it with a dynamic/ribbon mic.v72 ok for a condensor mic but does not have phantom power.
German of coures they were also used in the mixing desks in abbey road in England in the 60's so most Beatles stuff would have been recorded with them . very fat and tube /valve sounding. |
Brad Sarno
Member From: St. Louis, MO USA
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posted 28 August 2006 04:55 PM
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I had a pair of V72's for a while, but then sold them and then we got a pair of V76's. Both are great pre's, but I find the V76 more flexible and fun to use. Man those Tele's are magical mic preamps. Very high gain too. Love 'em! They don't build them like they used to.Brad |
John Macy
Member From: Denver, CO USA
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posted 29 August 2006 09:47 AM
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Here is the modern day version...
http://www.mercenaryaudio.com/amitav.html |
Greg Simmons
Member From: Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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posted 29 August 2006 09:53 AM
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...also check out David Marquette's Mercury gear------------------
“I always knew that there was something out there that I needed to get to.
And it wasn't where I was at that particular moment."
-Bob Dylan
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David L. Donald
Member From: Koh Samui Island, Thailand
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posted 29 August 2006 11:29 AM
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I recorded a whole bluegrass album
part by part through 1 Telefunken U-47
and some classic Neve preamps to ADAT.Great stuff if you can find it. |
James Quackenbush
Member From: Pomona, New York, USA
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posted 29 August 2006 01:48 PM
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David,
You can find it , the hard part is can you afford it !!.......  |
Doug Beaumier
Member From: Northampton, MA
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posted 29 August 2006 02:51 PM
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I've heard prices of 2K to 3K... I don't know how accurate that is. |
Keith Cordell
Member From: Atlanta
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posted 29 August 2006 05:35 PM
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At my shop we expect 7 - 10k for a U47.
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Doug Beaumier
Member From: Northampton, MA
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posted 29 August 2006 05:59 PM
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 [This message was edited by Doug Beaumier on 29 August 2006 at 05:59 PM.] |
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