Exploring the Universal Audio 4-710d preamp: Recording drums (4 mics) with tone blending

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In this video, we take a look at the tone blending features of the UA 4-710d preamp in a small four mic drum recording setup. The 4-710d is connected to a UA Apollo through Adat.

We´ve compared the following tone blending settings:

100% solid state
100% tube
50/50

(Please use good quality headphones or monitoring)

The audio material is not mixed/edited, what you hear is the pure audio coming from the preamps/converter to give you a good reference.

The recording setup in detail:

DW birch drum kit
various cymbals (UFIP, Istanbul, Anatolian, Paiste etc)

GIK Acoustics Alpha Wood & Polyfusor panels

Microtech Gefell M300 (overhead mics, spaced pair)
Shure Beta 52a (kick mic)
Shure SM57 (snare mic)

The next video will show the 1176 style onboard compressors in use.
Feel free to ask any question you might have!

Kind regards, your digitaldrumming team