PreSonus Eureka: The Eureka Battles Dryness On Home Studio Workshop
On this episode of Home Studio Workshop, Drew Krag takes a look at the PreSonus Eureka. After detailing some of the features of this preamplifier / compressor / EQ, Drew details some plans to compare a dry signal to signal through the Eureka.
Check out this video to hear the dry signal and stick around for part two to compare.
DREW KRAG: Hey guys, Drew Krag here with Gearwire.com and we’re in the studio today with the PreSonus Eureka. It is a transformer coupled class A preamplifier. And that’s a pretty effective tool in the studio. It tends to warm things up quite a bit if you want it to. So let’s just quickly go through the features of this pre-amplifier first.
So here you have it guys, the PreSonus Eureka right here. It’s basically a preamp and a compressor and an EQ all built into one, typical kind of channel strip setup. Towards the left we have a couple of options here, line level, we’ve got phantom power, we’ve got a 20-dB pad, a high pass filter and we basically have gain and impedance saturation, a pretty standard compressor and a VU meter. And over here is your EQ section and then your master blend. So it’s laid out pretty, pretty standard. But here’s the way I want to do this video for you guys. To really hear what this thing’s all about, we really have to compare it to a dry signal. So, we’re going to start out with recording some acoustic guitar with the Studio Project C1 microphone. And then we’re going to record the first clip dry. The second clip will be with the Eureka in the channel. So you will be able to hear what this sounds like in comparison to the dry signal. Beyond that, in the second video, we’re going to be plugging direct. I like to use this preamp when I’m recording direct with the guitar. It warms up the signal quite a bit. And we’ll do the same thing. We’ll have one video, one 30-second clip that is just the dry signal of the guitar, which won’t sound very good. And then we’ll have a 30-second clip of the guitar plugged into the Eureka and record it so that you can hear what it does to the signal in comparison to the dry and then the Eureka. So let’s take a listen.
Hey guys, so here we are. I have the Studio Project C1 microphone plugged directly into my computer through the Focusrite Saffire Pro 26 Sound Card. And this is basically the dry signal of the Larrivee acoustic and I am going to play that lovely little song that I played last time through the Larrivee.
[DREW KRAG PLAYING A LARRIVEE ACOUSTIC GUITAR THROUGH A STUDIO PROJECT C1 MICROPHONE AND THE FOCUSRITE SAFFIRE PRO 26]
So again that’s the dry signal. We’re going to take a listen to the PreSonus Eureka.
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