The Logic Off Topic list

John Pitcairn wrote......

> I found the cheap tube pres I've heard (Blue Tube, Digi Tube, Studio
> Projects, Joe Meek, Behringer) all seemed rather strangled and
> unmusical, certainly no "better" than the pres in a Mackie desk, 
just
> different - more like a tube guitar preamp on low gain. The Symetrix
> wiped the floor with them. 
> 
> If you're expecting a nice warm clear present tube sound that 
retains
> good detail and HF phase etc, expect to pay quite a lot more. A 
cheap
> tube pre might be quite useful on "too clean" synths though, as the
> poster above suggests, but I wouldn't want one as my only mic pre.
> 

that's really depressing reading John
I would have thought the Joe Meek would have been great.