Aphex Model 188 Eight-Channel Microphone Preamplifier
By Strother Bullins
"I used the Model 188 over the span of six months in a variety of settings: numerous tracking dates on the gamut of acoustic instruments, drums and percussion, vocal, and miked cabinet applications with a wide variety of microphones as well as a "crucial input mic amp" for two live events via remote control with my Mac Book Pro running the 1788SW control software. First and foremost, the Model 188 mic amps are pristine, providing lots of clean gain, and they offer all the adjustable parameters you'll generally need. Sans software -- with the Model 188 sitting at your monitoring station -- it's easy to adjust eight microphones of input in a flash; the push/turn parameter adjustment scheme of the unit's singular knob is brilliantly simple. Once you get the hang of it, it's easy to dial in appropriate settings for, say, a full drum kit in a jiffy. The back panel is well laid out, with all digital I/O to the left and all analog I/O to the right. I'm a big fan of the DB-25 outputs, as it's really easy to swap those connectors around, especially in time-restrictive settings, such as location recording and live work." More » |
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