Daking Mic Pre 4T 4-channel Microphone Preamp Reviews
The Daking Mic Pre 4T is a cost-effective way to add four channels of boutique-grade microphone preamplification to your recording rig. Featuring per-channel dual-concentric pots for control over gain and a variable highpass filter, this latest rendition of Daking’s 4-channel mic/DI preamplifier packs a lot of functionality into its sleek stainless steel 1U rackmount chassis. The Mic Pre 4T has a hefty 75dB of gain on tap, so you can feel free to use your favorite passive ribbon mics on quiet sources. The impressively flexible HP filter is continuously sweepable from 0–200Hz. And it’s wonderfully convenient having access to four great-sounding direct inputs for bass, guitars, or a hardware synthesizer with multiple outputs. As are all Daking products, the Mic Pre 4T is built in the USA using all-discrete transistor Class A circuits, and like its T-suffixed stablemates, it employs genuine Jensen input and output transformers to deliver that iconic vintage “big-iron” sound.
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Simply awesome
The Daking Mic-Pre 4T is the replacement for the Mic Pre IV. What's different? Variable gain pot with a HPF from 10-200hz
Why did I buy this?
I believe a mic pre-amp is either good enough to track everything or it's just not good enough for anything.
I have owned or used in the past many different mic pres--Neve style, APIs, tube pres, etc. I learned to track through console pres (pre-digital), because often, that's all a studio had and they worked on everything. Gear-pimps have convinced everyone that they need pres for bass, pres for guitars, and pres for Vulcan Throat singers, and on and on.
Daking can cover everything--the same day I received it, I tracked fiddle, e-gtr, a-gtr, mandolin, accordion, drums, clarinet, singer, and bass guitar. It handled everything I threw at it
The sound is smooth, yet clear and articulate. It is full bodied without being obese. The sound captured is 3D-like. and when driving the input, you can hear it's color - which is not an overpowering sound like API or Neve. It's almost like you get the clarity of a John Hardy pre, with the attitude of an API, but the boldness of a Neve, and done in a way that still stays true to the source.
These days I mostly record singer/songwriters and small Americana/Alt-Country artists. It arrived early and I happened to have an Alt-Country act in to record a few songs. The results where fantastic. Mic used were an assortment of Shure, Neumann, vintage CAD, and Audix; all of them performed well. Mixing will start soon, but from what I can tell with a faders up listen is that very little treatment will be needed to fit everything in the mix.
If you want a fantastic workhorse pre amp that will be with you a long time, that you don't have to think about, Daking is the choice.
