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From: Nate Najar on 4 May 2008 17:03
so right now i only have 2 channels of pres. millennia hv3c. it's my
favorite pre and I love it. i used to have 6 channels of rnp and they
sound good and work well and i'm happy with them, but I don't have
them anymore (i needed the cash a while back). so now I'm needing
some mic pres again as I've redone how my project studio is setup.
I've never heard the sytek. It's the same price per channel as the
rnp and I don't need a bunch of external psu's. How do they compare?
If I had the money I'd just have 8 channels of Milennia, to give you a
benchmark. I know I can be happy with the rnp, but would the sytek be
cleaner/fuller/better somehow//youname it? or same class but just
different. in which case, what is the difference? I know we're just
talking low to mid grade stuff here. thanks,

Nate
From: Sean Conolly on 4 May 2008 21:05

"Nate Najar" <nate(a)natenajar.com> wrote in message
news:0ecd783c-67b4-4905-acc6-e344b4588071(a)y38g2000hsy.googlegroups.com...
> so right now i only have 2 channels of pres. millennia hv3c. it's my
> favorite pre and I love it. i used to have 6 channels of rnp and they
> sound good and work well and i'm happy with them, but I don't have
> them anymore (i needed the cash a while back). so now I'm needing
> some mic pres again as I've redone how my project studio is setup.
> I've never heard the sytek. It's the same price per channel as the
> rnp and I don't need a bunch of external psu's. How do they compare?
> If I had the money I'd just have 8 channels of Milennia, to give you a
> benchmark. I know I can be happy with the rnp, but would the sytek be
> cleaner/fuller/better somehow//youname it? or same class but just
> different. in which case, what is the difference? I know we're just
> talking low to mid grade stuff here. thanks,

I have an RNP and a buddy has the Sytek, and we've done a few comparisons
using the few mics we have. To me it seems that the RNP has a little more
punch somehow, it sounds great recording rock vocals with a 58 or 57, and
even made my Oktava 319 sound pretty good on a female rock vocalist. The
'clean' channels on the Sytek sound like magic to me on drum overheads, very
detailed and clear without being hyped in any way. Overall the BB channels
didn't really do a lot for me, but I was impressed that when we ran an
AT4040 through them it sounded like a whole new mic: rich, detailed and
still smooth.

To me the RNP makes a nice utility preamp / DI that I can quickly use live
and for recording, and the DI section even makes my old POS bass should
pretty good. The Sytek is close to the top of my wish list, because of what
I've heard it do and because it's inexpensive enough to be a different kind
of utility preamp, if that makes any sense.

To be fair we're budget recordists and don't have a lot of gear to compare
with, nothing as good as a Millennia, but if you're looking for a way to add
amp channels on a budget it's hard to go wrong with a Sytek. The Sytek also
has a good resale value, I see them on Ebay going for 85%~90% of Mike's own
sales, so you should be able to recover most of your investment if you
decide to upgrade a couple of years from now.

Sean


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