Black Lion Audio Auteur On An Akai MPC500
Even your MPC sampler can benefit from the prowess of the Black Lion Audio Auteur preamp. Black Lion Audio founder and owner Matt Newport enlists the aid of Owen O'Malley one last time for the use of his famed smokin' pointer finger, which can trigger samples like quit your business. That's why they call him Trigger Finger O'Malley out on the mean streets.
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.
We're going to do some sound clips of the MPC500 through a Radial JDI and then into the Auteur, yeah, just to kind of give you an idea of what it's like in terms of processing and samples. The headroom's incredibly high so really we're keeping the volume about the same as where it was when we we're using a mic source.
Take it away I guess.
[OWEN O'MALLEY PLAYS A TRACK FROM THE MPC500 RUNNING THROUGH THE BLACK LION AUDIO AUTEUR]
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.
GRETCHEN HASSE: [INDISCERNIBLE]. [LAUGHING] Okay. Right on. That was really weird.
MATT NEWPORT: Yeah. I know. I should have sat there and smiled.
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