

Daking installed
I really wanted to use the pre on a session I had that afternoon. So first thing, rearrange the gear rack. First we make the hole. Cables were already soldered up at home, minutes later the whole thing is in. I tried it on a vocal that afternoon, it sounds really full and Neve like, which makes a nice addition to the other pre's we have. One nice feature is you can bypass all the eq in one go, another is that you can drive the pre hard and if the output is too hot you can tr

Daking comes to Church Road
Have you heard about Daking gear? If you read Tape Op like me you're probably familiar with the name. I just snapped up a Daking Pre Eq from Don Larking. That makes 6 flavours of pre amps available here now - Neve 1272, SSL g series, Ampex 601, Soundtracs desk pre's, SPL Gold channel and the Daking. That's bloody marvellous. Picking up some mic cable tomorrow, hoping to make up some leads to connect it in for next week. Woo woo! Geoff Daking interview