Schieffer -und-Schieffer Tonstudio   Berlin

         Stefan Schieffer, studioowner:

" I was curious about HCL gear so I asked their German distributor if I could test their microphone "Faust".

He brought the mic into my studio and I set up 2 Neumanns (M147 & U87ai) to test against Faust.

My studio partner and I recorded different speakers and singers and the results were really amazing.

Faust was the overall winner in these tests.

We were really impressed of the transparent and airy sound of this microphone. It sounds much clearer and stronger than the Neumanns. In a simple word: it sounds true !

The great thing about Faust is, that the sound it provides is "absolutely right", you don`t need further eq`s or exciters, only a little compression and it sounds perfect.

Because of these results I decided to buy this microphone immediately. It really does enrich my studio !

Thanks to HCL ! "

Tube Condenser Microphone

FFF Recording Studio

Mainz,Germany

                   Sascha Kraus, studioowner:

“ I used the leveller on a couple of bus-mixes.Brilliant sound on vocals I have to admit!
I am so happy with it!...”
 

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Audio & Videoproduktionen

Gross-Umstadt, Germany

                 Albert Stenger, studioowner:

“ I am going to sell all my preamps now!
as soon as I sold them I will order more of your preamps and also want to try your faust mic!.
Listen to our probe recording. Even it is just practising, it sounds great!
Recording with 2 oktava mk 012 cardioid, steinway b, franz liszt piano etude...”

Mic/Line Tube Preamp

Franz Liszt piano etude

MP3/320kbit/s, 1.5mB/00.39

Custom Sound Lab, Spain         Mixing & Mastering

Madrid, Spain

         Josue Arias, studioowner:

“ I just can say: WOW!

I was testing it for a few hours, first checking the instrument inputs with the guitar, amazing! transparent, clean, but solid and with a full body.        Then I used the line inputs as a stereo pair, using an insert from the master channels. I matched the levels for a/b comparison at exact volume between master out and master out with possessed inserted...Then I felt in love with the possesed!: the bass is more solid and the high end more defined and clean, also the stereo field is about 40cm wider (from my listener position). Man, this box is a lot more than a normal DI box!                                                                        I was using the DI with Bass yesterday, great! the combination of the DI + Demeter Compressor is really killer for bass!                                                           Also I used it for recording a rhodes and processing synth pads in the song I`m working now, it really get life to synths...”

Mic/Line Tube Preamp

4ch. Tube Di-Box

ANGOULEME, France

           Guillaume David, songwriter, producer:

“ In line it give me great presence, a sort of clearly sweetness (thanks to the tubes), real good stereoimage and with my bass, it's fantastic! And I like the design, with the grids which make it possible to see the lit tubes, and the old school print:)cool!...”

4ch. Tube Di-Box

Illustration Fontarbeiten Storyboard

Germany,Burgkirchen/Alz

                   Frans Stummer, producer:

“ Your boxes are rather good anyway ;-)... I like the way how the overtones unfold when the tubes are pushed hard...how much "headroom" I get additionally in the region where the circuit adds just 2nd harmonics, while already overloading/behaving nonlinear. At first I thought that the kickdrum (the audio example I sent) would be audibly clipped...but then again, before the arrival of transistors,preamps did NOT have pads to lower the input sensitivity...and in the days of old,a U87 on a low tom did not need a pad on a tube-input...and today a pad is needed for any transistor/OPamp channel.The short version: tubes sound better on mic inputs when the signals are very percussive and dynamic. Fact...”

Mic/Line Tube Preamp

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Tube Condenser Microphone

Mic/Line Tube Preamp

Opto Tube Leveller

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