I wouldn't say amazing. They are ok for entry level hardware. I've owned the EQs and 1176. The 1176 sounded like dog shit. I now own the purple mc77 and a real UA 1176LN. And there is absolutely no comparison when you hear them next to each other. The warm 1176 is more like a saturation box. The eq's sound "ok". Again. I own numerous other pultecs (audioscape, wes audio, goly, D'Anca ) and there is no comparison. Especially with the D'Anca. But you can't buy a D'Anca unfortunately because it's a unicorn. It's a handmade Italian pultec that I had to do a voltage conversion on. But like I said. The warms are mediocre against higher priced ones. Against a real OG pultec they sound amateur. But if you are just starting out buying hardware and don't have a few grand to drop then yes. By all means. The bus comp isn't bad at all. There 1073 pre isn't bad either. But stay away from that 1176

@@johnwalter6410 Hey John, how this Warm EQP really compares to the AudioScape counterpart? I'm tempted to get the AS ones but they have to be shipped overseas (I live in France) but I can get the WA one directly here in EU... is a real huge difference considering the AudioScape ones are slightly expensive? Let me know your thoughts please. Thanks!

@@PereRevert The Audioscape versions are a little better, and they're a little closer to my actual Pultec branded EQs. The Warm Audio EQ is still really nice, and I own two pairs of them. I use the Warm EQP on tracking and mixing just as much as I use my name brand Pultecs. The WA-EQP just has less headroom than Audioscape or the originals. That's not a deal breaker for me, not at all. I just have to pad the DB on Warm's a little if I'm trying to push them really hard in terms of input volume. I have other $3,000+ hardware units and EQs that I also have to pad the input so I can control the harmonic distortion in a way that I like it to be. I don't buy clones because I think they're identical to the originals. My originals don't sound exactly like other originals. I buy clones when I like how they sound independently on their own, without comparing them to anything else.

@@legacyShredder1 got it man! Thanks for your transparent and helpful reply. Kind regards from France!

@@PereRevert You're welcome. Be careful taking advice from people online and in person, including me, about gear. The guy above you, John Walter, said WA76 comp sounds like dog shit, and I'm sure he's 100% right that they don't work for him in his case in the way he wants to use them. I have a few WA76's and multiples of the original Urei 1176. Some WA products work great for me and a lot of other people. Who is right? Me and all the other people or John Walter? We're all equally right, including John Walter. We all use these pieces of equipment very differently from one another with different thresholds and infinitely different variables. I don't know what's right for you, because I'm not you. I don't know what you consider to sound great. Keep that in mind, and make some killer music that you like.

Nice! We have similar gear on the mixbus. Kahayan solid 4000, ssl gcomp mk3, 2 eqp-wa and 2 neve 542 ;) As i wrote in my comment, i need to set my 2 eqp-wa differently so they match better, do you need to do this as well?

@@aleknostar what do you mean match better? Like balanced in stereo? If that's it then I just used a test tone and used the gain adjustment on the back of each to get them to back and have been good since.

@@AtTheSourceStudios No, so the eq curves match. I did the test tones and calibrated the 2 units with the eq bypassed before testing the eq curves. Go read my comment in the main section, i explain it in more details.

Even in bypass since it’s a Discrete unit it still affects the audio going through it to some capacity.

it's probably cause he's using 2 mono analogue units, each unit will give slight variations to the sound that will enhance the stereo effect

It didn’t get wider, like at all. It just got louder, Fletcher Munson effect

Would this even be an issue if you record a real kick?

It's a mono unit

Helpful, I wonder if one of the units just has a defect? Wonder if wa would help you out there. 1/2 dB is a lot.

Audio Acustica vst Pultecs would have got the job done for you.

@@lightafluident.9950 Huh?!

He’s right, it’s true.

I have the same questions 😃 did you found a solution ?

What audio interface are you using?

From what I understand, it's basically just to keep the strings behind the nut from freely ringing out and adding anything to the sound. Obviously wouldn't make huge difference in anything other than very high gain situation. Kinda keeps things tighter and whatnot.

@@jordanmiller9486 I kinda thought it was something like that. I don't down tune so I didn't know what the reason was.

It’s because kids these days don’t work enough on their technique. Part of good playing is muting the strings you don’t want to ring but they skipped that lesson.

Yes

Use Acustica Audio VST Pultecs. Best thing out there. For two hundred bucks you get like several different versions of the Pultec.

I’ve got nebula and purple. They’re good, but you can’t drive them in the same way as I can my hardware… not even close. At nominal levels, they sound great though.

Try balanced cables

Yep thats exactly right