Akai Roberts Mod Sound Samples 1

Tablebeast TB-PPA1 Pre+Amp:

Here are some sounds that I have recorded with my modified Akai / Roberts tube units. First up is some electric guitar samples of the amp section of a Pre+Amp in drive mode. My friend Myers Gilmer plays his PRS with humbucker through into the amp section of the Tablebeast Pre+Amp with an EH Worm pedal on track 2. The amp is hooked up to a 1x12" cabinet with an EV speaker in it. A Shure SM57 is then plugged back into the Preamplifier section of the same Pre+Amp unit. That preamp is recorded through its transformerless output directly to 24 bit/44.1 khz wav file in a DAW. It is presented in mono with no effects or plug-ins or mastering AT ALL. Just RAW and naked Pre+Amp!





Next up are two complete songs by my good friend Daniel Moore from a project called "Crow Brings the Daylight". They both consist of vocals and acoustic/electric guitar. The vocals are sung directly into a Shure SM57 which is plugged into the Preamp section of the Pre+Amp with the pad engaged and the gain at a medium setting. The guitar is an Epiphone Chet Atkins CEC Classical Electric Guitar with Nylon Strings. It is plugged directly into one of my Plexi8 single-ended 8 watt amps. The amp is not hooked up to a speaker, but instead has it's dummy load engaged and is being recorded direct out of the padded line output tapped off the speaker load. The vocals are hard panned to the left and the acoustic is hard panned to the right. These are the absolutely unmolested tracks with no plug-ins or effects at all. No mastering or sweetening. This is the sound of the Akai units 100%.



The next track uses the same Pre+Amp and Plexi8 setup as the first, but this time the mic preamp has the pad off and the gain set to a medium setting and the amp is cranked up a bit more.



And here is the mixed and mastered version of those same two songs.