Joe Meek VC3 – Mic Pre + Opto Compressor + Enhancer

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Joe Meek VC3 - Mic Pre + Opto Compressor + Enhancer

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I bought this unit in the late ninties, I have owned it from new and it has hardly been used at all.

 

 

Taken from the manual :

 

 

WHAT IT IS

 

The JOEMEEK PROCHANNEL is an input conditioner. A microphone or musical instrument preamplifier designed to bridge the gap between the performing musician and the recording studio.It has been designed specially to be easy to operate, yet will give the finest professional ‘glitter’ to the sound; but without hours of tweaking knobs and switches with unrecognisable names!

 

 

QUALITY AND BIG SOUNDS

 

It’s my theory that ‘big’ sounds can only be produced if the lower frequencies in an input amplifier are kept absolutely flat and under control. To achieve this, the JOEMEEK PROCHANNEL has an extended frequency range down well below 20Hz. This ensures that there are no sudden phase shifts in the low end. The proof of the theory is that it sounds great!

 

 

OVERLOAD MARGINS

 

In the mid 1970s I designed a range of mixers specifically for Independent Local radio stations and the BBC. One of the specification clauses insisted on by them was an extreme overload margin on the microphone amplifier. The reason was that although momentary overloads (transients) are not audible, they have an effect on the quality of the sound you hear. A high overload margin amplifier just sounds better. Nowadays, many of these notions have been forgotten and ‘quality’ electronics is getting rarer and rarer. But the JOEMEEK range of Studio channels and the PROCHANNEL apply these professional rules and you can hear the difference!The function of a microphone preamplifier is not too difficult and the microphone/input amplifiers on normal professional mixers do it quite well; BUT they cut costs and corners. The JOEMEEK PROCHANNEL has a specialist approach, it uses a super quality transformerless input stage in combination with a low-noise line amplifier; the overall design produces a virtually unburstable input stage with excellent low noise characteristics.

 

 

An interesting fact is that the cost and quality of the parts in the ProChannel input amplifier are on a par with those used in the very top professional mixers and microphone amplifier outboards.

 

 

As well as giving the best performance with keyboards, guitars and basses, the ProChannel is also designed to work well with the best capacitor microphones; it is particularly good with the Neumann range, the AKG C3000 and C414, Microtech Gefell, and Audio Technica.

 

It’s best to think of the JOEMEEK PRO CHANNEL as three separate pieces of equipment:

 

1) The Input amplifier.

 

2) The JOEMEEK Compressor.

 

3) The Enhancer.

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Category: Musical Instruments:Pro Audio Equipment:Signal Processors and Effects
Location: Guildford