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Daking Audio Mic Pre EQ
1.1 About Daking Audio
Congratulations! You’ve purchased a Mic Pre EQ, a very high end piece of
gear! The Mic Pre EQ uses all discrete transistor Class A circuits, Jensen
input and output transformers and printed circuit board mounted switches.
Signal capacitors are precision polypropylene or ultra low-leakage electrolytic
types. Our boards are assembled on a mil-spec assembly line. The chassis are
stainless steel for maximum RF and hum rejection and a long lasting finish.
Every unit is hand finished, tested, burned in, and tested again in a second
facility.
Also, we just couldn’t stand to use plastic knobs, so we designed our own
anodized, engraved aluminum knobs that give a much more precise and
quality feel. We designed our gear to be gear you’d own for life, not some
passing fancy you’d leave in the dust once you figured what the good stuff
sounds like. This IS the good stuff.
-Geoff Daking
1.2 Quick Start Guide
1.2.1 Don’t read the manual!
Most of you will already know how to use mic preamps perfectly well and
might be even a little offended at the idea of reading the instruction
manual. So don’t read it. This manual is not for you.
This manual
is
for someone that knows enough to buy the very best
(Daking of course!), but doesn’t have a lot of experience using recording
gear.
You might be a bass player who just got a DAW and wants a cleaner more
accurate sound from your mics in your home studio. You might be a
student that just got a check from Mom & Dad and who wants to go buy
something nice for yourself.
You might be the guy standing ankle-deep in a
pool of salt water, trying to yank the grounding pin
off your mixer’s power cord so you can plug it into
your 2-prong ungrounded outdoor outlet.
This manual is especially for you!
Whenever you see the Duh! Guy, you can be
assured that most professionals will already know
this stuff. Be sure to explain this stuff to your friends in a snotty and
condescending tone, so you too can be part of the tradition of know-it-all
engineers and recordists!
