All user reviews of 4/5 for the PreSonus BlueTube

Small two-channel analog preamp.
Combo XLR / jack (HI-Z) on the front and the same thing separate tails.
Question two control bar graphs to LEDs, 48V and they have not forgotten - fortunately - the phase inverter.

Almost bare minimum but consistent with the target audience: everything that could be added at this stage it would be imposed at the expense of sound quality or softness of the price.

It would be perfect if the final ball had been committed.
She was and I have kept it to the end: there is no low-cut!!!! Deuce! Misery! Damnation! Sabotage!

Grrrrrr .... well ... it's okay anyway but please do not repeat what we shot there.



UTILIZATION

Nothing more simple and thank you for the inputs on the front panel: aaah this damn habit to deport switch on the rear connector and then the target product is the home studio which in principle does not 130m ² and is not equipped cabinets or racks patchbay ....
Ouuuh ..... but I wouin-wouinte for nothing (who said again!!) Because it is not the case
And that's perfect.



SOUND QUALITY

Less than 100 euros Cygnus' the contract is perfectly true: there is a definite plus compared to the direct insertion into the input of my M-Audio.

Certainly it is not the Virgin Mary is back on earth but a lot more for his money than most similar products that I either already served in this price range.
Only my old Tube MP Studio bought 25 euros a friend (despite the many very negative reviews and IMHO partly unjustified about it) had previously given me as much satisfaction (but not quite the same use).

Not pushing the ugly color gain (and then there matter of taste!) All made themselves heard and harmonics are being progressively until exhaustion value (in qualitative terms) of the signal if you do not stop to reasonable values.

On this subject I read comments regretting the poor quality of the saturation level (or distortion) of this little preamp or similar materials; I think this is normal and it is not made for that.

Again we must keep right: this box will serve me most of the time to pre-amplify the two microphones that transplanting my acoustic and attack the stereo input of my sound card situation prototyping or pre-production and without "3:00" to make the sound and adjust a channel strip with EQ and dynamics processing.

If I have to make def ', what happens to me regularly but still not enough to justify (and probably allow me to be quite frank) the purchase of a channel-strip over 2000 euros, I prefer borrow "my potos rezo".

And from elsewhere: thank you very potos

All this is certainly not perfect but for the price, it seems to me, very good.



OVERALL OPINION

I have used it a few days then have made in order to properly express my disapproval of this shameful neglect of petty and low-cut; but it took me admit that the vacuum is great in the competition (in terms of price / quality ratio) so I'll bow to me and get another one.

Now I think I have made with you, dear reader, a target around the animal.
An animal very good company which by its side touches everything, discretion, kindness (..? ..) Should follow you everywhere.

This is also thinking about the fact that he also did a very good DI for the scene that I came to regret that he did his masters have not learned to split the signal (style switches ABY) which would have is an indispensable companion turned in the bag to save lives at the bottom of the minibus!
You know the one where there also has stereo jacks, RCA, cutting pliers, a small Soundcraft mixer, a corkscrew .... CBO .... of .....

Still not perfect - but who is? - Nevertheless, all this is still good.

But as I am talkative written almost as much as the oral, and especially quick to complainer complaint, and I just read something that has profoundly shaken me I would add the following and I can not stop me.

Yet I try.

Yes I can ... then ... in response to product reviews Monsignor "lord_lézion" (... brain?) Who explains that we are all idiots because-that all lamps in the world are perfectly identical and should therefore show an immeasurable ignorance bother to change that which is provided to us with BlueTube

Dear colleague, Master,

Do not you find it strange that almost all of the world's population could have committed such an error of judgment but Your Excellency? And His Excellency Mr. és lamps I named complotiste Alain Lafon (you give the website address also very shabby looks like another ....) and you would have saved this horrible mistake?
But why then does he sell different brands of lamps?

And when I see how the sound of my amps and other materials lamp changes when I change the lamp model I'm very concerned that (at my age, already!) Such hallucinations!
Do I then, Oh Grand Septon, seek urgent psychiatrist?
Unless, in the light of your Clairvoyance, you will most certainly orientiez me to a great marabout ...

See other view, sufficiently complete

UTILIZATION

Using ultra-hyper-super simple!

SOUND QUALITY

The Blue-Tube aporte a certain color that is not bad ... quite the contrary.
In many cases it is even wish ...
The original lamp is average quality (see questionable ...)
I changed a 12AX7 WA Soviteck .... and happiness!
Reduces the same breath is!

OVERALL OPINION

Used for two years, the quality of its m'pate forever.
Three weak points, I think:
1 - connections are super fragile (the Neutrik combo is not screwed the faade, and moves a lot when connecting
Dconnecter-cables, this means that pulls the solder circuit ...)
2 - rcptacle of the lamp can be more fragile, when changing the lamp it seems that everything is in pieces from ...
Once again, we draw on the welds of the circuit ... (tsk tsk tsk ...)
3-No-stopping power switch.
ECONOMY After the candles are really rgretables. Presonus believe that philosophy is "doing well, but as long as a is not too ..."
If not, what matters is the sound, and I got my money.
I referrer this election if the Buget remains the same ... if not, I will turn to Avalon and other Manley ... (But the price ...)

Analog lamp (the lamp flavored, actually)
tt t has said. no switch pnible.

UTILIZATION

Tt is so simple and effective.

SOUND QUALITY

Trs meeting with smicros. sufficient reserve of gain, but the distortion with the drive is not gniale background, while it is enjoyable low. I have not tried to change the original lamp, can be as ^ a amliorerait things.
I tried it with sm58, shure beta green and studioproject C1. trs satisfactory recovery and lead VX amp GT.
dcevant in DI for bass. nice guitar in pramp for warm not too nervous. also be used with a keyboard.

OVERALL OPINION

I have been using qq months.
saturated sound is not great, it's a shame.
I '(have not tried many other pramp. I wanted to sth emeilleur pramps my yamaha console. mission accomplished.
I would do, yes.

See previous opinion

UTILIZATION

The use is bone simple.
For audio, you can either put very little gain for a decision of its most clear and transparent or turn up the gain that may be of interest to distort the signal and compress it a little (some on making voice, bass direct or even snare). Finally, everyone did that kitchen, mine is special ...
I did catch bass distortion directly correct the distortion using the preamp. Otherwise I never use it to catch live guitar or bass.

SOUND QUALITY

The original lamp too saturated for my taste so I quickly changed to an Electro-Harmonix.
The sound is quite nice, it adds heat to catch.
Without him, my shots were cold and felt his wickedly digital.

OVERALL OPINION

I use it since 2005 and I saw my budget could not afford better, but I have had failures:
one of the tracks did more and XLR (gratos repaired by my dealer).

In summary, the sound is more than adequate for the price and its possibilities are wide but the build quality is poor. Because of that I put 8

Added on 22/09/07
The XLR repaired last year dropped again. The build quality of the machine is really bad.
I bought one later ULTRAGAIN Behringer T1953 Tube (two-channel preamp tube). The rendering is worse than the blue tube. In this price wins against Behringer Presonus!

Added on 27/08/08
I changed the lamp Electro Harmonix Sovtek 12AX7 WA by one. The output level is higher and more difficult to resolve. There are a lot less dynamic than the EH, just as if there is compression.
Also, I had the opportunity to use an Art MPA Gold. It's still something else ... but it is more expensive!