But I don't think you really want to push the Apollo pres into breakup and that makes it a bit apples and oranges. The break-up of a tube pre and to some degree, an input transformer pre like the Phoenix has a signature, even if it's subtle, compared to a unit like the EL or Apollo. It really wasn't that hard to hear differences on the female because she is really powerful and is expert at working a mic. The guy couldn't hear anything significantly different but I don't think he's a real critical listener. I did my best to equalize the volumes, etc., then gave comparisons to the singers. I used the Grace m-201, the Apollo, the UA 610, the Phoenix DRS-8, the Toft ATC-2 and the EL Mike-E. One singer was a 50-something male rock singer, the other a lady in her 30s that is an incredible blues/jazz singer. I was doing a bunch of vocal overdubs and had a couple of willing victims, err, I mean singers, and we played around with it over the course of a few weeks. I read it and was a bit skeptical because I believe I can hear a signature for the different classes of pres I own. They had a hard time hearing differences between the contestants. These overtones were tweaked to perfection by Andrew Scheps himself, resulting in beautiful and authentic saturations.There was a Sound On Sound article a while back where they did a shoot-out with a bunch of mic preamps. Using innovative procedures to model the acclaimed Marinair transformer, Waves has meticulously captured all the sonic characteristics of the 1073, including its harmonic distortion. And to top it all off, the Waves MS matrix has been added to let you apply different equalization to mid and side stereo content. Additionally, for the first time ever, a little-known 10kHz midrange band discovered in the original 1073 schematics but operable only on the rare 1078 channel strip has been modeled and incorporated into the plugin.
The Waves Scheps 73 is a colorful 3-band EQ modeled on the classic 1073 console's EQ and mic preamp module and developed in association with world-renowned mixing engineer Andrew Scheps ( Adele, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Black Sabbath, Lana Del Ray, Metallica, Jay-Z.)Įmpowered by Waves cutting-edge technologies, the Scheps 73 EQ features interrelated bands that adhere to the 1073’s original specs and precisely emulate its behavior: a fixed 12kHz high-frequency band, switchable low and midrange bands with cut and boost controls, and an 18dB/octave high-pass filter.
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