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Art TPS II
jfherts jfherts
Published on 10/27/08 at 08:19
Best value: Excellent
Double preamps ... with a lamp
2 microphone inputs, 2 jacks
2 outputs (XLR + jack)
(Funny thing: they have the buttons reversed channel 1 and channel 2 as a mirror)

UTILIZATION

Nothing complicated:
plugue it is adjusted levels of input and output. At this level, everything is ...
just the gain knob 10 which acts in mysterious ways.
The LEDs are not very accurate for me

SOUND QUALITY

This is where it starts to cause problems.

At first it may be quite surprised (especially if we move from a behringer preamp to it).
But I think we are none for its price! For a guitar in pluguée jack in, still going ... But if we get the small details of an acoustic guitar or voice, push the preamp too, and transients are for me very badly made.

There is no transparency, no definition ... Of + the presets are pretty weird: Some "boostent" frequency (or lamp), one wonders what is there qdmm behind. Why not? but I find that it does not work. There is sometimes a kind of compression and more.
I find this very vague preamps (it's a catastrophe on a low example). We have (I think) some level / subject of the gain (required to compensate the output), or unless you press the magic button ... 10 while there, the lamp cries "for help" and this colors, many mm!
In addition to blur, it's soft ... It has no "potato".

It's the cliché of cheap tube preamp (but want color blurs the same time ...), so I can not tell you the story when you start to have a dozen tracks!

OVERALL OPINION

For its price, it is unfortunately not great (in my opinion of course).
In all honesty, I will not do sponsorship, but for € 100 and more, at least up to a floor in some brands! I bought it with eyes closed, but I should not have. I regret this purchase ... sad but true ... (Mm I come not to sell it :-) For now, I used my mic for talkback