July 23rd, 2010 – A few days ago, I put out a call on my Twitter account for suggestions of mic preamps that would work well with an M-Audio Sputnik tube microphone. I got several great suggestions, and Randy Coppinger came to the rescue with an awesome Sputnik test he had posted on SoundCloud (embedded below).

In the test audio, Randy uses an M-Audio Sputnik tube condenser on 6 mic preamps: Martech MSS-10, True Systems P-Solo, Millennia Media TD-1, Universal Audio Solo 610, Focusrite Red 8, Joe Meek MQ3. Fantastic test, and just what I was looking for. Thanks Randy!


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M-Audio Sputnik On 6 Preamps (Male Speaking Voice) by Audio Superfreak

This entry was posted on Friday, July 23rd, 2010 at 8:30 am.
Categories: Engineering, Gear.

2 Comments, Comment or Ping

  1. Lukas

    True Systems P-Solo would be my favourite in this shoot-out, very clean and… true, I guess. MM TD-1 sounds a bit overwhelming, but at the same time it has this nice richness and bottom to it or maybe its the proximity effect in action… Focusrite Red is nice and clean too.
    Just my 2 cents

    Oct 8th, 2010

  2. Sean

    @Lukas: Yup, I’m thinking of picking up a P-Solo after hearing it in the shoot out as well. Pretty affordable as nice preamps go as well!

    Oct 17th, 2010

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