DIYRE
70's Character Colour Kit Bundle
$350.00 $400.00
- Full Kit
- Step-by-Step Guide
- Supported
- $50 Repair Policy
- Intermediate
Vintage signal chain in a single 500-series space
Compare a typical 1970's signal chain to today's: in the 70's a mic would be run into a console channel strip with its dozens of transformers and transistors, then perhaps to a compressor, then to a tape machine. Every one of the hundreds of analog components the signal passed through would impart some sort of character to the tone. These days, most of us plug a mic right into a digital interface.
So is it any surprise that it's difficult to make records with lots of warmth and character today? We're simply not running our signals through as much colorful stuff.
Bring three stages of real analog tone to your studio with the 70's Character Colour Bundle.
The bundle contains:
Colour 500-Series Palette mkII Kit
Control how hard you drive each stage in your signal chain with the new Palette mkII
15IPS Tape Saturation Kit mkII
The natural compression, wooly saturation, and low-end bump of analog tape
TM79 Multi-stage Saturation Kit
Transformers and discrete transistors combine to create a thick vintage texture
DOA Colour Kit + RED-25 Discrete Opamp
The punchy, mid-forward tone of a classic 70's console DOA
Customer Reviews
First time ever soldering anything in my life, no practice or anything. And it was an easy fun process. What in the world. Suspiciously fun. Suspiciously easy to put together. It did take me all day because I had this idea that soldering was some kind of hard thing to do so after every joint I was suspicious. But it really does sound great. I don’t even see a reason not to run my mics through it. I’ll run everything through this thing.
Very easy to solder, clear instructions etc. however, my palette was missing components and I’ve been waiting over 10days for the replacements. The gig I ordered this kit for has since passed. Disappointing.
Bought the kit version, took me a couple hours to get it all soldered up, not too difficult if you have some experience soldering and assembling. Sounds great too, crunches everything up exactly how I'd hoped for especially if you are a connoisseur for mangled drum sounds like me!
These kits are probably the best diy audio kit’s available. Very easy to assemble with detailed instructions.
I liked this thing so much, I had to make a second one so I can experiment with this whole stereophonic sound thing. They make pretty much everything sound better, even with the gain dialed all the way down on each module. The only "problem" is that I now have a nicely matched pair, so I might have to make a third for experimenting with additional colour modules.
