![]() Great job Joshua, Teo, and the team at Stam Audio! The V72 is not as clean and doesn't provide a huge amount of gain like a Focusrite, but the unique tube vibe is there! The Stam V72 tube preamp is a nice addition to our solid state preamp collection at Dirt Floor Recording and Production and is used on a daily basis. The unit is solidly built and lives in the preamp rack among the api, Neve, Focusrite, Vintech, and Millenia Media preamps. ![]() The Stam adds a DI input that is great for bass guitar or keyboards as well as phase reverse, 48V, and an impedance switch to alter the tone. I used a Neumann U87 on a vocal into the Stam 72 and WOW! Super clear and punchy, just like I remembered. When my Stam V72 arrived, that was the first thing I tried with the preamp. They sounded great on vocals and acoustic guitars. I remember my original V72s as a "slow" preamps that worked well with "fast" microphones. When I saw that Stam was reverse engineering the V72, I put my order in early. I used to own (4) original Siemens V72 modules that were modified and racked in lunchboxes years ago, but I ended up selling them to fund other gear purchases. Macarena was very nice and very helpful when I had questions about shipping. Oh! And for those concerned, shipping took just over 2 months from date of purchase for me in LA, I ordered when they were in stock. (When you guys doing another run of 251’s? Hahaha) Overall, incredible value for something I could have paid 3-4x more for. If I’m being completely honest the only thing this microphone leaves me desiring is more Stam mics. I haven’t had the chance yet but I’m sure the figure 8 would come in real handy for some mid-side action. ![]() Pop that bad boy into Omni and say goodbye to any proximity effect, you can get right up in there without the bottom end getting out of hand and you really start to hear some of that sparkle too. Probably one of my favorite features of this mic is the switchable polar patterns. Definitely sounds like there’s some luscious transformer saturation happening in the lows which I really like. Definitely a vintage sounding mic in that it’s leaning towards the darker side of things but that’s not to say it’s a dark sounding mic by any means, just not hyped in the airy frequencies like most modern mics are, which to me is highly desirable, especially in post production which is where I will use this most. I’ve shot this mic out against several others already (Neumann TLM 103/Neumann KMR-81i/sE Electronics 2200aiiC) and it absolutely has all of that Neumann tone but not quite as bright as the 103. All the other reviews I read are accurate now that I used the mic in a few different voice over sessions. Not much I can say that hasn’t already been said. ![]()
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