Well I sold the TB12 by Warm Audio.  I used the money towards the WA73! This thing is awesome. The last time I used a real neve was back in 2008. So I don’t have a solid reference in my mind, but this preamp is killer.

One of my biggest complaints about the TB12 was the aesthetics. The bright orange with a bunch of different mismatched fonts. It looked weird, but sounded good.  The WA73 is so much sleeker.

The reason why I dove into buying this preamp was for the custom transformers. They worked with Carnhill to re-create the original spec transformers from the original 1073’s. No other 1073 clones have these parts. I wanted a more “dirty” or “musical” mic pre for different sounds. Everything I’ve tracked through it so far, has sounded thick and warm. I even dig the distortion you can get out of it, by slamming a guitar direct in.