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@ just arrived today, it’s freaking awesome, so happy! Great product

Fantastic! Glad you dig it, let us know if you have questions!

This is for using a DI track to run back out from the DAW to interface back to the amp.

@ ok now I think I see how this would be used! Thanks man.

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had a jacket on... was very cold in there that day. haha

The Vintage Direct is built to last. If you'd like to see some shots of the internals to evaluate the build quality, check out the brochure! avantone-cms.s3.amazonaws.com/8d26e0f5-b250-4836-bd18-581d26338b16/United-VintageDirect-Brochure.pdf

Hi, the transformer is secured by an internal bracket, essentially a U-clamp, that holds the transformer to the PCB. It will withstand a fall, we actually tested for this. -Chad

If I could be a united studio tech artist I would 😏 I even have artist that I work with exclusively that all have their own twin87 now too. Spreading the knowledge and big sound one by one.

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Hey, sorry to hear this, as well as for the late response - busy times here over the holidays. Please DM your email address and we'll look for your message and get this straightened out. Thanks!

Exactly.... It doesn't seem to make sense to un-vintage a vintage design. Isn't it being like a vintage unit the whole point of re-issuing a vintage device???

I'm guessing it sounded a bit far off from the source signal that building it the way it was is a big risk...for sales.

​@steppbrooEFT Yeah, i guess the idea might be that their potential customers like the idea of vintage gear but don't really want vintage gear. Certainly stranger things going on in the world with people's thinking these days so it's possible I suppose. If I want say vintage single coil guitar pickups I realize that there may be buzz or if I want to buy a vintage inspired ribbon mic I expect that it isn't going to have great high frequency response unless I boost it considerably with eq but that's my thinking. Don't try to sell me noiseless guitar pickups and tell me they are vintage 1950s pickups.

Hi, its a good and valid question. So, when we made our first and closest reproductions of the A-series UTC parts, what we were seeinig was some odd 'shelving' eq responses, of only a dB or so, it was subtle... barely audible but very visible on a sweep measurement. Its the sort of thing that would have definitely generated A LOT more inquiries and concerns for those who noticed it (visually, and yes, people will do that, haha) than if it 'did not' have that response... so we really had no choice, I felt, but to correct for that. There was actually a tiny bit of EQ happening in both directions, we were seeing a bit of LF loss due to capacitative coupling between the 2 sides of the transformer, and a little bit of HF loss due to the metallurgy of the laminations (we suspect)... We essentially made changes to extend and flatten out the FR in both directions. I don't believe those issues contributed a lot to the 'tone' of the original part; I think the tone has more to do with harmonic content and its very high headroom/input tolerances, etc. Bear in mind, the original part we modeled was used in, among other things, phono playback, and never designed to be a direct box transformer (because such things didn't really exist yet)... so you're talking about something that a whole lot of EQ (RIAA curve) was already being applied to somewhere else... Likely they were correcting with EQ to some degree initially... and since we didn't have a built in EQ/tone control, we needed to correct on the transformer. After all, I want people to be able to still capture reference-quality direct tracks that are as un-manipulated as possible. So, I view the UTC part as our initial 'muse' and what we took from that was the general construction technique, the oversize/overkill approach, and the high headroom design; but what we landed on was more modern in terms of performance... best of both worlds, perhaps. If someone does desire the exact original part with all of its eccentricities, my friends over at Audioscape make a limited run of boxes using NOS original UTC parts, and I have no problem recommending them for those who want that extra bit of vintage artifacts/flavor. They do great work. For us, since we were making this in quantity and our goal was to make a reference flat direct box, we could not go that route. -Chad

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I'm not sure. Ask Jacob over on Instagram: instagram.com/stillman/?hl=en

Both! The Transparent mode is based on the classic Signal Art reamp, Harmonic Mode is based on the AngReAmp. :)

Above all else, The Vintage Direct is the cleanest-sounding DI box you can get. We did everything we could to keep your tone as clean and robust as possible. With the Vintage Direct, you'll also be able to record your DI bass sound and your mic'd amp tone at the same time - you can then blend your tone between the two signals. Of course, if you're into re-amping, you can run that DI signal back into your amp later (using our Replay Box or similar) and adjust the amp tone to suit your project at your leisure, after tracking. You can commit to a performance without committing to your tone at the same time.

@@UnitedStudioTechnologies Is there a sound demo? I'm really curious about the sound of the vintage direct.

Not at this time. It's worth considering that the goal of the Vintage Direct is transparency; the Vintage Direct shouldn't have a sound of it's own. The only sound you should hear is that of whatever you plug into it! In other words, we thought this product should be about your tone, and not ours. :)

No plans for this time, but we're curious about your use case for that input impedance. Tell us more! Have you looked into active DI boxes? Some of them have variable input impedance options.

@@UnitedStudioTechnologies What is needed is an audio buffer for a cello pickup. Essentially, it's a preamp without any gain. It should have a high impedance input for the pickup and a low impedance output capable of driving long audio cables.

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We're working on getting them to reviewers! In the meantime, check out what Glenn Fricker has to say about it: ua-cam.com/video/h2AIEOXSq1U/v-deo.html Also we've got a little writeup on the history of the Replay Box if you're interested: unitedstudiotech.com/en/posts/the-replay-box-story

I got mine today. Only reamped one songs worth of tracks with it so far but it’s working pretty well so far

Fantastic! Keep us posted on how you like it!

Best of luck!

@@UnitedStudioTechnologies Thanks so much - I will need that luck haha! And thanks for the great videos you put out.. they're appreciated!

Hey Ruud, this sounds highly unusual; this is not how our mics are manufactured. The termination wires with the ring terminals are prepped beforehand and then added on to the capsule once prepped. We would never manufacture that way and risk thermal damage to the capsule or saddle. We have your e-mail on file and will be reaching out about this shortly so we can find out what happened and make sure it doesn't happen again. Thanks!

This is awesome. Thanks so much. Do you mind if I share your quote on our Instagram?

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@@ericlee5935 Thank You Eric!!

Thanks Mike!

Thanks Jordan, let us know how you like it!

We thought it was important to make the trip all the way out there to fully illustrate how warm the mic sounds.