Forgot the hardware. Fell in love with the performance. Congrats.

Came back to this years later... Still love the performance so much!

Great video! Both demo and performance were fantastic! I'd give the Neve the nod for better sound overall in this comparison, but I'm giving WARM my money. People don't listen to equipment, they listen to music. Both of these pre's can help anyone make beautiful music... what a time to be alive!

Oh Neve... that big sound and that gentle undertable compression... it always gets a "more" out of the performance. It is an allaround magic! Thanks, good job.

The flux capacitor on the Neve is more open but the Warm is tighter on the underside frequency curb probably because of the original megatron transformer. I like both but the Neve is clearly more vegetal than the warm that seems drippy on the left canister but can be due to the miss bust prosthetic.

Beautiful heartfelt performance! With a good pair of headphones I can really tell. When the Neve comes in it is like everything opens up. It is almost as if there is more air and more reverb.. You can really hear it on the ringing of the guitar when the change happens between vocals.

Most 1073 owners possibly do not want to admit how great the wa73 sounds.

On a pair of Genelec 8040s in a professionally tuned room, the Neve has that mojo that the Warm doesn't, but most people are never going to hear that detail in a normal space or in a mix.

Man, I came here to hear this comparison, and it was a great one, but your performance of this song cast a tender, world-weary spell on me, and that was by far my favorite part. The Neve does sound smoother, and the Warm Audio unit was definitely harsher in the upper mids. I have a WA273, and I find it easy to avoid that harshness, but I suspect I wouldn't have to try to avoid it with the Neve. Thank you for taking the time to make this, and thank you for that excellent rendition of this song.

Forgot I was even comparing pre amps, brilliant cover, thanks I really enjoyed that.

really helpful video, hope more are coming about pre-compressors-EQs.

Even on AirPods I can hear that slight push on the high mids of the vocals that seems to be gritty which isn’t there on the Neve. The neve opens up the highs SO MUCH too I could really hear it on the vocals sibilants for sure.

I have both the AMS Neve 1073 DPX and the WA 273 (dual channel), and they are both magnificent pieces. Warm Audio does an incredible job of getting so close to that inimitable Neve sound, but is barely distinguishable. I love the dark, velvety tones that both these pre's exude. Can't go wrong with either. Some projects sound better through the Neve and others sound better through the Warm Audio. I love having both at my disposal. And the Warm audio price is ridiculously reasonable. If I was starting a new home studio, I would go for the Warm, as a starting pre, especially if you’re working within a tight budget. Excellent demo song performance too🙂

Just came across your channel, and I think you are one of the most talented singer / guitarists I've come across. Cheers

Very good musical performance - forgot to listen to the two amps - and thats how it should be bravo !

Great comparison, and a beautiful performance as a bonus!

dude I came to compare the preamp, ended up replaying your video just to enjoy the cover. magnificent job dude!

Wow what a great song!! Like the preamp too great job

This is a fantastic A/B test. So I wanted to say firstly, thank you for making this. Now I owned a pair of 1064s for years, and when the prices became insane, I eventually sold them. The thing about the old Neve units, is they were all built by hand to 1970's military standards. Which was high, but the end result is every unit would sound a little different, unit to unit. So you have a wonderful sounding vintage unit here. But I wonder if the vintage units Warm Audio used as benchmarks had a slightly different "curve" naturally. Additionally, age is a factor. As components age, the "slight" midrange hump at 2kHz people mention in the comments might "relax" a bit after 50 years. Just food for thought. I think Warm is making an incredible product and I'm floored at how close it is for the money.

😌 Let's do another one! We love having you in the studio!

Superb performance of a great song.

Beautiful singing too 🔥

This preformance eased of my anciety a bit. Thank you

Huge difference in the top end. Neve wins by far.

In the end its a great song through both preamps. Well done!

The Neve has a rounder pressence overall, while maintaining those clear bell-like highs without being harsh at all or in your face. I like warm audio products a lot, and for the price, it's clearly a great alternative for home recording musicians. It's 80% of the Neve IMHO.

neve feels bigger, more fresh air and more present.

That acoustic guitar sound is amazing

If I close my eyes, I can hear the switch over to the Neve, but not the switch back to the WA73. Weird! They both sounds great to me. Awesome video.

They're close, but you know you have a magic song and performance when the gear disappears.

Man, it's close. I feel like the Neve has more body to it. Both sound excellent.

be soundin’ smooth! 😌

I love my Warm Audio 73

Weirdly , the WA sounds darker to me which I wouldn’t have guessed. But I could take either one and not be bothered, these sounded great guys great work!

Lodin was in his “drinking champagne because it tastes good” phase 😂. Don’t mind me, I come here when I want to listen to the song. Even though I have both wav files. 😅

For me it almost same but you can feel the brightness bump on the warm audio. Little more controlled bass and more overall “done” sound from the neve. Over all classic 1073 win here but with some little eq WA will sound 99 % same. So WA is the winder for the bucks. Great video! Great performance !!!🎉

I heard the bell overtone on the high end of the guitar, on the Neve... Almost sounds like something recorded to tape. So vintage and while clear. The Warm seems like it would be good if you were wanting more presence and detail to cut into you mix. Maybe on bass guitar, slow strings, or something with a lot of tracks... But for guitar and vocals I really heard the Neve character, and see why it's sought out

did not expect a lua cover here. mad respect. great video, thank you - i agree with what seems to be the consensus, the highs are noticably better on the neve. for the difference in price, though, WA73 holds up like many of their other products.

Came for the preamps but I looped that song!!!!

this is a well-done comparison

I have tried to listen to many of these, but this one i was very much able hear how the Neve opened up. Almost like the light in the room got brighter or Almost like a blanket was removed where the warm sort of sounded choked, smaller. Maybe it is the age of the transformers or the type of metal or whatever, but I did hear it and TBH the Neve was nicer for me. They sounded similar for sure and I have no idea if I would even remotely think anything like this if the warm was the only one used, but back to back like that I was able to hear it...it wasn't a HUGE difference, but it is there

I know the point is the preamp comparison, but I'm stopping by just to also say, great song and performance.

Very nice review, thank you. It's a great comparison to show how close these are. Still, if you would process both to have the best sound, maybe the differences would be even smaller to the point where you can not reliably pick out one over the other. E.g. a little more brightness on the Neve or a little cut on the WA could bring this even closer. For the money, I would pick the WA's and be very happy with those.

Vintage Neve 1073 is great!

hei , i think in this test Warm Audio sounds actually bit bettter than Neve , its usually other way around .

Great performance man 👏

Regarding the vocals, Neve has that magic and recognizable harmonic distortion in the lower mids for me, but both preamps are amazing and veeery similar to each other. Perhaps we could hear more differences if they were pushed a little harder, they sound quite clean to me here. The WA73 is slightly harsher on the upper mids, but overall great preamp, can't go wrong with either one of those!

I think the fact that that the track hangs together despite flipping between amps shows how ridiculously close they are…if you took away the text I doubt anybody would be able to accurately say where it changes. Anybody saying the Neve is miles better is just kidding themselves…conformation bias

Next time make it a "blind test" please 🙏, comments will change dramatically 😅

Hi folks! Very good comparison. It will be great to add a Heritage Audio eq73 elite in the shootout. WA and HA are in the same price range, and they are a lot different than NEVE 1073.

I’m a fan of Warm and would use this product in a heartbeat. That being said the Neve has a fullness that the Warm doesn’t and adds a touch of magic.

One Word, Clarity. I wish the hi rez files were available for DL. That would really tell the story. Man that is a great song!

Listening here on a pair of kii Three. Unfortunately I'm listening blind and pausing when I hear a change... And im reliably picking out the change. There is a harsh 3/4k bump on the warm. I think they could be evened out easily with a little EQ. Saturation sounds very similar which is the main thing.

great song and performance! yes i am in the market for one of these. i want to pay WA audio price but want the Neve sound.... looks like I'm gonna have to spend more, the Neve is fucking beautiful. God damn that was great.

Neve has a much more balanced sound. Cleaner and more musical.

Great comparison. I bought warm to learn how to use a neve. I want the neve.

I can definitely hear a difference. More body to the Neve at these settings. I'm thinking with a little EQ tweaking you could get the WA73 pretty close.

The EQ is what separates the Neve from the Warm Audio. The Warm Audio starts sounding a little harsh once EQ is put into the equation. Aside from that they are damn close with the EQ bypassed. #FACTS.

funny, I prefer the Neve for the guitar sound but the WA for vocal. Both are stellar.

The Neve sounds smoother. The WA sounds a tad crispy on the top end. The U47 is such an amazing microphone that it makes both shine. The Neve helps the mic shine though. Nice playing. It really was a good song to hear the subtleties.

Thx for this video. Perhaps Ill do one myself once my WA273 shows up. I already have a Neve1073SPX. I hear a more clear, brighter sound on the Neve. I wonder if you turned up the highs a tiny bit on the Warm that it would be unnoticed? Its very subtle but its there. As it should be considering the cost difference. I know we are all searching for those great sounds without spending the dollars and Warm Audio has brought that within our reach I believe which is why I just took advantage of GCs gear special and grabbed one. Ill do my own comparison. But even if its just a subtle difference I will benefit. All's I really wanted it for was to send the final mix through it before the mains. We'll see. At minimum I will now have 3 awesome preamps with EQs.

The Neve just has that "Magic"

Great comparison! I've owned both and a BAE. The Neve sounds better but for the price you can't go wrong with the WA73. Side note even vintage 1073s can vary in sound. Great content! Great song!

First of all, thanks for the video and congratulations to the whole team for this beautiful song. Neve brings a lot of fairy dust to the guitar voice combo, it sounds very clean, ultra defined, with a lot of air, When warm audio comes into action, the change in tone is noticeable, it is like the sound becomes squared with a little shine but not to the same level as Neve. I really liked the sound of Neve. What do you think of the elite series of heritage audio ??? Greetings and thank you .

Neve…smooth. Great performance!

For me the Neve is a bit Smoother an Natural sounding. But i just ordered an used WA73 EQ for 700 bucks. For that money its kindly to good compared to the neve. But hey. The last % is a big pricetag you have to spend. And im to broke for an Neve xD. Loved the Performance. I like how you sang it like "Telling a story" etc. Noth are great. Neve has this Legendary Status but you see a WA 73 in every Studio too... Its like you get 95% of the sound for just 900 bucks... I just using a dnx 286s at the moment and also planning to get an Klark Teknik KT-2A with an T4BLA opto. Im not even a singer or recorder. I just use it to talk on the Internet xD. I just LOVE Audio Gear and what people can do with it. I want it too! And you guys there kinda living my dream! Keep up the work!

Neve is tighter sounding with more control on sibilance while the wa73 is a bit loose and has ever so slight less control on the sibilance. of course after they are mixed it will be difficult to know difference

The warm audio sounded excellent and surpassed my expectations, when I used it to track instruments to my Tascam 8 track cassette. It blew me into another universe, but I didn't like it so much on protools, it didn't kill the digital chill, but the Avalon 737 seemed to work better at killing the ice cold sound of protools (to a certain degree, that is)

On first listen (on a set of Sennheiser 58X cans) I hear a little more low-mid (and a tiny little bit of guitar boom) and less openness and detail in the highs (primarily in the vocals -- that little bit of fricative something towards the middle of some words) in the Warm Audio. The Neve maybe a little more 3D, too. I agree, though, that the track hangs together despite the switching back and forth -- though I noticed it more when the Neve came back in than when switching to the Warm Audio. Nice performance, btw.

Im wearing headphones and mostly talking about the vocal. The WA73 has less low mids, it gets driven in a way that sounds more like distortion, but sounds cleaner most the rest of the time, the syllables are harsher, its brighter and as a result it sounds lifted, like the vox coming through my temples an guitar at ears. The neve sounds like its coming at me at ear level and below, with some pecks from above, the WA73 sounds more glued in place. The neves lower guitar notes have more sustain in the low mids. The neve doesnt sound distorted when it gets driven, it sounds like pleasant (my opinion) saturation. It has a gentler, more gradual increase in saturation when you push it too, rather than the more sudden of the WA73. this is all very subtle, and hard to pin down on one reason. The WA73 sounds more modern (bright, distorted, upfront). The neve sounds vintage (natural, saturated, dynamic). probably never notice if a song i listened to a thousand times switched between the two.

Okay but what about that Black Lion AGB compressor in the rack? How do you feel about it? What are your thoughts? What applications do you love(/hate) to use it on?

NEVE BABY SUPER SMOOTH

How do you like the Black Lion AGB compressor? Any demos with the 1073?

The Neve is bigger with more dimension and clarity.

Hello sir. What kind of studio mic you guys using? That looks really nice

I wouldn't trade my Neve 1073 but that being said, at the end its about creating some awesome music and if it sounds good altogether nobody will care what piece of equipment was used on it.

Great song

If he didn't put description, you would be guessing which one was used... I hear people mention the Neve has more body, more weight, more silky, smoother ? haa what does that mean? they both do a great job. If you have the money than go for the Neve, than you earn bragging rights!

The Neve. But I couldn’t afford them so I got the. WA 273 EQ

I recently started using a WA73 and noticed some harsh sounding frequencies in the upper mids that I just couldn’t get rid of, especially on vocals. I tried tube compressors, different mics, eq etc, and nothing worked. When I listened to this comparison (without watching the video) it was easy to tell when it switched to the WA73 because I hear the exact same harshness that I’m experiencing. Unfortunately, its gotta go. Cant live with it.

The Warm sounds very good, absolutely adequate and then some...but the Neve sounds dramatic and wonderful.

Both sound good, and a good song by a good performer! Is the difference a $5,000 difference? Nope.

Just a question I have [cause I see one of you guys wearing Slate Audio monitors]! Slate audio has Neve in a software plugin form. Does the software really compare to the actual hardware gear? Deep inside I know it doesn't, but still. Would love to see what you guys have to say!

Wa sounds more throaty and grumpy in the low mids. Neve sounds super transparent. Wa you can tell there's something there. Neve just sounds like brilliance and that there is nothing there.

The Neve is smoother in the top end, most notably in the vocals, but I can't help but wonder if the slight "edginess" of the WA73 might be advantageous on dynamic mics like an SM7B. Just a thought.

High end and low end sound better with the Neve. Warm Audio is probably unbeatable for the price though.

Neve sounds like it has more headroom and very "air" sounding but for the money warm audio performs really well after mixing and mastering you probably won't notice that much

NEVE !!! to da fullest

Heard it on a pair of ATCs, Yeah the NEVE got a warmer body, but the warm sounds great a tiny bit ''harsh'' if i can say so.

The best part of this shootout was the performance !

YIKES!!!!!! The Warm sound thin.

Not worth it to spend X times more for a Neve when the Warm Sounds so good. I'm sorry, Neve may be good, but they cost too much. Especially when Warm Audio is making such amazing/affordable gear.

wonder if compare the original u47 with the wa47 as well. wonderful demo song chill and super smooth

damn the vintage unit sounds nice

at the switch 2:59 you get the contrast of depth of the Neve.

Sweeter highs, gooey lows and warmer mids from the neve. Plus smoother, more confident dynamics from the saturation of those transformers. Though the WA73 has a similar frequency response, it’s lacking in harmonics, sounds less full, with a brittle and unpleasant top-end…especially on the more passionate parts of the performance. If you’re seeking “that” sound, price can’t be a factor in your decision. Great performance and recording though. 👍🏾

The Neve is nice! But I think there’s the cost of diminishing returns as well as the “accurate vs useful” debate. When it comes to a Neve 1073,is the WA73 accurate? No. Is it useful and gets you 95% of the way there? Yes! Getting a useful sound is what many of us who don’t have the mega studio budget should consider when making gear purchases.

They both sound great in different ways. The Neve is smoother and the WA73 is more up front.

There's something in the "T" and "S" sounds in the Warm piece that doesn't translate as nice as the Neve piece. I've learned this already on my WA73. It can be tweaked but those consonants are a slight problem. The Neve handles them better. But aside from that, they're very similar. Thanks for the comparison.

neve1073 is very detailed sound！