Is the Elysia Skulpter My Best Voice Over Preamp for the Neumann U87ai?
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- Discover the magic of pairing the legendary VO-standard Neumann U87ai with the Elysia Skulpter! 🎙️✨ With it's channel-strip like features, including a transparent compressor and beautiful saturation circuit to bring your sound up front, watch as the Skulpter breathes added life into the U87ai, showcasing its full potential with intimate warmth, clarity, and detail. This combo is a game-changer for capturing authentic, professional sound. Don't miss this demo!
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Oh yeah. This match sounds fantastic. I can really hear the shape saturation, even at 50%. Sounds so good. I think I like the Clarion better, though. At least on you.
The Clarion is a lot more articulate in the low mids and has an overall cleaner profile so it just translates more of my vocal personality. I agree it’s better on me than the 87, which was the biggest surprise for me in 2024.
Sounds great through my headphones.
Thank you! The Skulpter is truly incredible on it's own and it just pairs so well with the u87.
Mellow smoothness with a nice Pecan after dinner taste;)
🤣If I was a food critic, I'd give this preamp a 10 out of 10 for its warm, smooth sound.
Loving the content! What 500 series rack are you using?
Heritage OST-4. Bare bones features. Robust power supply. I have a pair of them and have zero complaints.
@ thanks for the recommendation. I was not familiar with that one but looks like it would suit my needs.
How about when delivering to clients? They almost always want "Raw audio". Do you record with "shape" and the built in transparent compression when you've landed a job or do you disable the whole circuit?
I would also love to hear the skulpter compared to a consumer grade interface if you have one kicking around!
I've actually tried to communicate this quite a bit over the last couple of years. Delivering "raw" audio to clients is an obsolete idea these days perpetuated by outdated forum post wisdom. Unless you are working on high-profile projects there is almost no audio post production done on your VO on commercials. Mostly, it goes to a video editor who just drops your track onto an edit timeline, adjusts levels and renders it out. So if you want to sound good, you have to pre-treat your audio before it goes to the client. You have to be savvy enough to understand how to do that, but most of that battle can be easily achieved with what the Skulpter does, which is why I really love it. I do hundreds of commercials a year and never does a client ask for raw audio anymore and my commercials all sound great. Plus, clients love it when you can deliver something that is completely "plug and play" because a great deal of the time the audio is either the final or near final elements added to a project and often it happens when the project deadline is imminent so if you can save your client time, they will love you and come back to you again and again.
@@MarkYoshimotoNemcoff Well that is refreshing to know! I have always delivered both raw and processed to my clients so I've never received a complaint. Having the skulpter cover my harmonics and peak compressor needs would certainly help reduce my plugin load.. which admittedly is getting to be a bit excessive!
@@CSVO138 Yeah, practically nobody hires an audio engineer for commercials and it all just goes to a video editor who may or may not know what to do with raw audio. Most times they'll just throw an eq preset on it, if anything. I was getting there, too, with plug ins and I've found that it just sounds better when you can get rid of the plug ins and post tweaks and nail the sound before it even gets to the DAW.
Bangin’ sound! Is there anything even remotely comparable in the Apollo ecosystem? Asking for a friend.
LOL. I think the Apollo preamps lack detail. It's a preamp on a chipset that's more of a one-size-fits-all sound to accommodate their vintage cosplay system.