Sound Skulptor. EQP501 Sound Skulptor EQP501 Audiofanzine We jumped at the chance to review the Stereo Tape Simulator (STS) Their main business is as a recording studio, but a home-grown interest in vintage preamp clones led to requests for more and the launch of the modular product range reviewed here.
Their main business is as a recording studio, but a home-grown interest in vintage preamp clones led to requests for more and the launch of the modular product range reviewed here. The Sound Skulptor range is designed, produced and sold direct by Synchronia, a small two-man company in the south-west of France
The Sound Skulptor MP573 seemed to cover all the bases Skulpt Your Own The latest outboard device to be added to this growing list is Sound Skulptor's STS (Stereo Tape Simulator), and its approach is very much along the lines of the Rupert Neve Designs Portico 5042, reviewed back in SOS July 2007. Sound Skulptor CP 5176, FET compressor kit for the '500' Lunchbox The CP5176 is a FET compressor based on the design that was originally used in the 1176, which has been adapted to the '500' format
Sound Skulptor 573 500Series Preamp. Genuine Carnhill input and output transformers - check! Hi-Z instrument input (in the front) - check! Front panel switches for impedance, polarity and phantom power - check! Easy to read build instructions, check and check! All of this came in at around $500 AUD and the only additional cost would be my time and labor Sound Skulptor is a division of the Synchronia Company, which also runs a studio in southwest France
Sound Skulptor 573 500Series Preamp. Sound Skulptor recreates legendary Analog Pro Audio devices like Neve preamps, Neumann mics, API compressors, and EMI pres and offers them as DIY kits. Encased in a desktop box, the STS includes the electronics of a classical tape recorder along with many features such as variable gain input stage, pre-emphasis stage, recording amplifier.