monochrome's music gear

I sometimes have trouble focusing on my work too. ;)

Haha.

you need 2 pultec knockoffs for a stereo parallel bus with a heritage successor or another neve diode bridge clone ;-) Very similar to my A rack, good choices.

@jimmarchi1 Yeah man, I know. I am old school I guess I record mostly in mono to tape and then create stereo in creative ways or workarounds in my DAW or somewhere else if I feel like it but a lot of the stuff I do is pure mono. I like doublers for that among many other things. I am very happy with my current choices and it really melted things better together. Pretty nicely sums the whole audio signal path from outboard hardware that goes through a lot of modular and other processing outboard. The diode would be a good choice totally. I was a little bit hesitant at first about the Pultec knock-off for a few but tried it out and it can really do that low-end trick nicely. When I need to elevate some of the dirt and rawness of analog (my whole signal chain is designed in a way it soaks audio in retro patina and artifacts, non-linearities, etc.) I use that to cut through it. So far so good. I like overloading the tubes on other gear with strong input signals as well and push that... Warm Audio comp is pretty spot on to my ears. Love all in buttons mode haha.

@monochrome they're not EXACT clones but if you retube(revalve) them you're really good to go.... I got 2 sequential serials that seemed pretty well matched out of the box but really lines up on the osciliscope after getting matches old stock dual triodes through them. My bus returns aren't even this well matched and the sonic improvement is definitely audible when you hit into them a little too hot. Definitely proved to be better than I woulda expected.