Ignoring that the most popular bass amp among touring pros is the Ampeg SVT, and the B15N is revered as one of the best amps for recording bass.

…”discovering” that the kind of garbage low voltage “tube” equiptment (stomp boxes and cheap chinese made amplifier heads) you were fond of dont really sound that good-well that not much of a revelation..And here the point > They are NOT ACTUALLY what an honest and reasonably well informed person would call ‘”tube circuits”,…

Not all stomp boxes or Chinese-made amps run at low voltage. And a “bad” tube circuit is still honestly a tube circuit—it’s just not a good one.

BTW the reviewer clearly detests the only actualy “tube compressor” – stomp box he ever reviewed

Huh? Which one is that? Are we talking “actually tube comp” as in high voltage, like the Effectrode or the Retrospec which I reviewed very positively? Or “actually tube comp” as in it uses a vari-mu design, like the Markbass which I reviewed very positively? Or are you one of the people I offended by not giving a very positive review to the Summit TLA-50 (which of course isn’t a stomp box)?

…and recommends the phoney fakey low voltage gimmicks…obviously he loves low voltage circuits. Nothing wrong with that its all personal taste..but explain the difference between a Tube compressor that operates at 250-300 volts and uses an optical circuit and the kind of 9 volt “tube compressor” you apparently prefer

I have given both positive and negative reviews to all types and voltage levels; my reviews are based on actual performance, and absolutely do not fall along any pattern of liking low voltage or anything of that sort. I suspect you have only skimmed a couple of my reviews, and have not actually read many of them fully.

…and then explain why you whine and complain about noise in comparison to a tube circuit operating at 300 volts. The”LA2A” and “UREI” and BA6A and Fairchild 600′s and gates STA LEVELS – with all that point to point wiring and big high voltage iron and all those old Octal tubes and gas voltage regulators – are also much noisier that the low volt,low current signal produced by that little orange box with the tiny chip covered with a thin film of wave soldered, surface mounted scum. And of course they sound infinitely better too, and cost 1500 times more.

I “complain” about noise when it exists. That’s part of how reviewing works, I tell people what to expect. Look at my reviews of the ADK CLA-1 and Urei 1176LN for examples where I make it clear that their tone more than makes up for their noise.

Its a shame, because SOOOOOOO so much wonderful music was produced with actual tube circuitry…so much we cant even begin to quantify it…and sadly that equiptment wont be around forever..greed always triumphs over taste….but the cheap-n-sleazy consumer electronics industry will go on till the lights go out…

Well, I agree with you there!

The “least angering” solution I’ve found so far is to use heavy-duty Velcro and attach up to three half-rack units to each other in a vertical sandwich stack, to be transported in a foam-padded hard case like the ones meant for mics or camera equipment. It’s NOT a good solution, but it works better than trying to fit them on shelves in a standard rack case.

For a collection of mic preamps like you described, I’d actually suggest packing them individually in padded sleeves, and carrying the lot in a duffle bag. A padded tambourine case actually works pretty well for protecting a single half-rack device. I admit that a gym bag full of tambourine cases may not have the professional look that an engineer-for-hire might want.

I’m trying to put together a mobile 16 input digital recording rig. I’ve collected 4 stereo and 2 mono mic pre-amps, all of which are these smallish pod sized cases.

While most are MORE than one space high (which means you need to commit two vertical spaces to one unit, thereby overriding the intent to save space with the half-space width), some are able to fit in the EIA height space I have. Then the problem is that you can’t fill the space horizontally as two units placed side-by-side are either too wide for a standard 19″ rack, or the two leave “holes” in the front of the rack. You can’t win with these “mini” sized housings.

C’mon guys… Alesis started something with thier “Nano” series (I believe those were intended to be 1 space high, 1 THIRD space wide), why can’t you all just play nice with each other?