Black Lion Audio Auteur Goes Unplugged, But Not Literally
Trying to suss out the Black Lion Audio Auteur mic pre's limitations -- if it has any -- Owen put his hands on the steel, and let the golden age of acoustic guitar tracking begin. We've already heard this stellar preamp on vocals and electric guitar, so we can only expect it to shine on acoustic guitar as well. Or can we? You'll just have to watch the video and decide for yourself!
MATT NEWPORT: Hi. I'm Matt Newport. I run Black Lion Audio, and we're here to talk a little bit about our new preamp, the Auteur. This is a fully balanced design.
Here we are again, tracking some acoustic guitar. AKG 414 through the Auteur.
[OWEN O'MALLEY PLAYING ACOUSTIC GUITAR THROUGH THE AUTEUR MIC PRE]
MATT NEWPORT: Really a lot of the same things that we hear with the electric guitar. Nice open mid range, real velvety quality to the upper mids, nice clean top, a lot of nice articulation because the front end is really fast on this, but then, you know, transformer, a lot of nice girth to the low end, to the low mids, so. I really should give you the kind of track that either can stand very well on it's own or will fit nicely into a mix without a lot of processing.
[OWEN O'MALLEY PLAYING ACOUSTIC GUITAR THROUGH THE AUTEUR MIC PRE]
MATT NEWPORT: What we did with this was we actually copied off of a fairly famous circuit which is now as the Cohen double balanced circuit. It served as the basis for mic preamps that SSL installed in some of their consoles, that AMEK installed in certain consoles. The principle behind it is that you have dual amplifiers, one to handle each side of the balanced signal. You get more headroom, better noise reduction, better distortion, performance. It's just an all-around better circuit.
The cool thing is that it's not that actually expensive to make.
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