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ART Pro ChannelItem ID: ProChannel1-channel Tube Microphone Preamp/EQ/Compression 
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From Our Research Team:Your All-In-One Processing Powerhouse!It doesn't get much more professional - or more powerful - than the Pro Channel, a stunning microphone preamp with unbelieveable features. If you took the popular Pro MPA, Pro VLA, and Tube EQ processors and rolled them into one impressive unit, you'd have something almost as good as the Pro Channel. The Pro Channel's "secret weapon" is the new tube circuit in the compressor. You can choose between the optical/tube compressor or the coveted tube circuit, each offering a distinctive sonic flavor, and giving you added flexibility. The 4-band Parametric Equalizer gives you selectable Q for the two sweepable mid-bands. The Pro Channel's remarkable combination of these three essential studio tools is accomplished without skimping on the quality of the originals. You get all the benefits of the Pro MPA preamp, and the Pro VLA tube compressor, and the Tube EQ, not abridged versions. And with the extra enhancements the Pro Channel brings to the mix, the result is a dependable, powerful processor that you can trust to capture the performance you've been looking for, in the studio or live. Many artists trust Pro Channel to handle their important processing applications. Find out why.ART Pro Channel Features:
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Reviewsbased on 12 reviewslive and in the studio
by d.j. from MI USA
I purchased my ART PRO CHANNEL to use in my live bass rig. I'm using it in front of a crown Xti 2000 power amp into a hartke hydrive 810. I have never been happier with my rig. To start with the tube ... read more [+]pre-amp is brilliant. You can ad as much of the tube sound as you want. It can go from clean to fat and warm to down right dirty with no loss of gain or any unwanted noise. August 30, 2011 Music Background: bass player live sound engineer The compresser is tube or optical. It's vary musical, vary easy to dial in (thanks to the LEDs and nice big VU meters) and vary quiet even at extreme settings. The tube driven EQ is hands down the best I've ever used for boss. The range of control, low,low mid,high mid,and high. Its the first EQ I've ever had that I truly liked the way the highs sounded. Last thing to say about the PRO CHANNEL, it has two effects loops (pre/post compresser, pre/post EQ). I replaced a SANS-AMP RBI an APHEX 204 and a DBX 160A....sounds better, easier to use, less signal path, makes no unwanted noise, and cost under $200! close [-] Super Value
by Rock Justice from Washington, D.C. Metro Area
I own two Pro Channels. They really shine when used as the front end for direct recording of instruments (e.g. electric bass and it also useful for recording acoustic guitar). Everything on the Pro ... read more [+]Channel works well. Yes, there are channel strips out there that will out perform the Pro Channel. Bear in mind, however, that those units also cost considerably more than the Pro Channel. Now that Sweetwater is selling these units for under $200, you'd almost be foolish not to have one or two of these channel strips available around your studio. It'll be the most useful $200 you'll ever spent. close [-]
August 24, 2010 Music Background: Hobbyist don't base your sound quality review on a bad unit.... these are amazing sounding for cheap money
by Harmon Mix from Seattle, WA USA
for $150 used or $200 new (originally more like $450 a couple years ago) the art pro channel has a mic pres that somewhat resembles the sound quality of the famed art mpa gold. yes the mpa has high p... read more [+]late voltage and better components, but still this mic pre gives you some of that character, a somewhat mid-forward tone that slightly tames the highs in a pleasant way. It's not perfect, but it's a very nice change from the stale neutral sound from most affordable mixers/interfaces that people in this product's price range would be looking to upgrade from.January 3, 2012 Music Background: retired recording engineer The compressor(s) are both excellent, the opto comp being identical to that of the famed art pro vla stereo compressor which is used in many studios. worth the price of this unit alone just for the opto comp. routing is exceptional for such an affordable device and is better than many very very expensive units. I personally like the eq but yea it's definitely not subtle. great for fixing big issues or for DI work where instruments can often do with some stronger eq alterations than one would put on a vocal during the tracking stage. One cool thing is you can do clever patching to recording the pre-eq sound to daw while patching back into the eq and sending that output to a headphone mix on your board so your singer can hear a warmer or brighter tone without worrying that you are recording something you might not want in the final mix. metering is top notch. wish it was high plate voltage, it's not so don't push the tubes too hard unless you want the harder transistor style clipping you'll get from a starved plate device. It can be improved with certain tubes however which perform much more politely at these lower plate voltages. An easy mod but it does cost some bucks to get the most appropriate tubes (and takes some research). I use two of these in my home studio along with some much more expensive gear. these still get used frequently when I do honestly blind tests of the different gear I own. I still find I prefer the vocal tone from these channel strips over some much more sought after preamp/compressor combinations (I mean separate components!). How can you go wrong? don't be biased against this product because of it's price or because it's starved plate. starved plate is perfectly valid and won't cause any issues with sound quality until you start really pushing the limits of the unit. and the brand name isn't anything to sneeze at - I would put this gear at an equal to some of the nicer presonus pieces but in a very different type of sound category. close [-] Just What The Doctor Ordered...
by Peter Andrews from Wayland, NY USA
I recently converted from good old analog recording on a fabulous old Tascam 70 Series 8-track reel-to-reel machine to digital recording with a basic Pro Tools/Mbox2 PC based system. Although I truly ... read more [+]love most of what the digital domain has to offer I found all my good condenser mics were creating vocal recordings that were overly harsh and sterile and just too "accurate" for my taste. No matter how much EQ, compression or other processing I used I couldn't seem to get a nice "warm" sound that would compliment my mixes. After much research and asking some close friends in the recording business what I might do in my little home studio to get to where I wanted to be I decided a tube preamp might just get me there. After more questions and more research I decided to give the ART Pro Channel a try as it had all the features I was looking for and the price was about what I could afford. It didn't take long to realize that it was just what the doctor ordered. I recorded some vocals in Pro Tools right along side the ones that had been giving me trouble so I could toggle back and forth to listen and get a true comparison. The Pro Channel allows me to "dial in" a bit of added warmth and color and really kills the harshness that was my main problem. Then with a touch of EQ and my normal battery of effects I have vocals that really come to life and sit better in the mix and sound more "real" to me and are much easier to work with. I don't use the Pro Channel's EQ section much other than to add a bit of "air" during recording. I do take advantage of the tube compressor for just a little mild compression during recording (any heavy compression is done during final mixing) and I use the on-board low cut filter to kill any nasty rumbles down below vocal frequencies. I've found the tube preamp section to be most useful without getting up into the meter range that suggests "warmth" as the "clean" levels provide plenty of the warmth I'm looking for without a distorted sound. I think the "warm" levels might be more useful for bass guitar or other instruments that might benefit from a little subtle distortion but for voice the higher gain settings in the "clean" range seem to be plenty for what I'm trying to do. I'm currently using the Pro Channel strictly in my home studio but I'm seriously considering putting one in my live vocal rig as well. It would probably be just as useful there as in the studio... close [-]
January 11, 2012 Music Background: Semi-pro vocalist, home studio owner/operator for 20 years, amateur producer/engineer... Step up mic pre
by BC Keith from Tulare CA
The art unit is a great entry level mic pre . Perfect for starting out in the sonic world of microphone pre amp influences. It brings to the studio control and color that is not available in pre's tha... read more [+]t come in standard on hardware mixers . It's tube saturation ,compressor and EQ make it a great tool for the new studio owner. And would be a welcome addition to the more advanced user as well. The price is fantastic. A quality unit without compare at this price. close [-]
December 28, 2011 Music Background: Studio Owner /Engineer/Artist Also popular
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