I recently bought the HA73EQ and I’m super happy with the sound, I owned genuine Neves until recently and it’s almost indistinguishable imo. There’s like 5-10% in it and listeners are never going to know. Personally, I don’t think GAP should be dismissed, I compared one to my Neves and I nearly fell off my chair. They are a really great product, the GAP has more vibe colour than the Neves, bit hairier. Unreal on bass. It’s a great time to be buying gear, and I tell you it’s not these preamps if your mixes suck. Peace
I had at one point back in 2019 5or 6 of these WA73EQ and the all sounded different and I did extensive testing to match up to one liked. Also 1 was DOA and running for 5 minutes and another cut out all signal when the EQ switch was engaged. They were originally supposed to be for stereo sources. After being disgusted and frustrated took the tops off 3 I had left and discovered that not only they were (different)builds with different company components that were supposed to be the same value but one unit had missing or deleted components. Talking to Warm Audio it was admitted that they had been revising all the time while selling. and there was even a point the HI pass filter was pushing up certain frequencies. This is what happen when you dont have QC guy in China that you haven't personally sent there. Warm Audio is an R&D company. And they'll gladly take amateur money
14:19 Ive seen this video, and although he shows this noise difference, i have mine in my rack my H,A EQ and have my warm audio 412 right underneath H,A and i heard no noise when both turned on, maybe on the meter but could hear no additional noise when both were on
Well up til this point I was looking into the WA...now I might be switching for the better biscuit. Thanks Warren! If you have any examples of vocals in both units I was love to hear the comparison!
Yeah it is. Many manufacturers including Apple do so. The difference is the back end support you receive from companies like Apple. I don’t necessarily think that’s bad. It’s only a problem when you encounter a shortcoming and have a problem getting it resolved. Thanks for your comment and for watching 🙏🏽✌🏽
Very informative. Thanks warren. Would love to hear your opinion on difference between ha73 vs ha73jr people say that ha73jr is handmade and sounds much better than ha73. It will be of great help to me if you xan guide thanks.
Thanks for watching. Both units are handmade in Spain with the only difference with one being a 500 series format and the other not. Thanks again and please subscribe.
@WarrenHenry hey warren thanks for the reply well that is great if both are handmade then why such a big price difference. We are getting eq, power supply everything inside the ha73. Where as in 500 series unit we get only the preamp with chassis and eq seperate. I mean if you buy both 500 series modules and a chassis it would reach above 2000 usd. I am just confused about that. I am just about to buy it please answer my question thanks alot.
Warren, my WA73-EQ seems to sound like the tone changes a lot when I record vocals for a extended periods of time. It isn't my voice nor the hearing either. Because the previously recorded material, an hour or 2 earlier sounds completely different. Seems as if the entire signal is smearing. The bass transients flatten and the high end seems to loose definition, air and crispness. Is this something you experienced with your warm units? The midrange seems to sound like when the tone button is engaged without me touching it. I record with eq and need to. I use an audient id22 and KT76 to track vocals, so I don't want to add one more ad to da roundtrip to the material again. One time in, I am satisfied with the results, but wasn't crazy about doing two passes with the pre. Thanks
to clarify, completely different, I mean the signal I recorded previously sounds the same to me, my preception, hearing wise, didn't change, the way I hear myself while recording is the same, I use one headphone on, it is really the pre or the eq that seems to start mangling the sound.
Thanks for your questions. It’s hard for me to comment without hearing what’s going on. Feel free to send a sound snippet of your problem along with your signal chain to my email. I will say this though, if you’re using any transformer based equipment for an extended period of time heat might affect the tone. Might not be exactly your problem but it is possible.
What. I just bough the WA JUST YESTERDAY, base in how well you spoke about it during the several videos I saw of you speaking greatly about to only find this video the very day after I bough my WA... Come oooon
LOL. Perhaps the reason WARM didn't copy the schematic exactly is that AMS Neve has already given Heritage the business (legally) once for copying the designs too closely.
@@WarrenHenry I stand corrected! Just goes to show you can't believe everything you read on Gearspace, yes? And shame on me for sharing information I hadn't verified.
Partially True. Brent Averill (The original owner of BAE) was a maintenance guy here in NY a long time ago. He might have worked on a couple of the older Neve desks although API was his thing. Heritage is a relatively new company. Not sure how far Pete Rodriguez goes back in terms of working on real Neve consoles as a maintenance guy.
Which is better for Vocals would you say? Male Vocals for rapping mainly. What would stand out more in the mix and give the song a proffesional sound? Thanks Warren
Thanks for watching. If you are intending to use the EQ then invest in the Heritage. If the EQ isn't important to you then the Warm is $100 cheaper. Both give you a pro sound. Thanks again for watching🙏🏾✌🏾
