Brand New, Freshly modified ART Solo VLA by Revive Audio, the leader in pro modification services for your preamp and processing needs for 15 years!

Comes complete with a 2-year warranty.

Add the optional Cinemag transformer Upgrade for an additional $100!

New at Revive Audio is the entire SOLO line of ART products. Based on the classic series with one new addition (The Solo Studio).

The solo series takes all of their most popular products and puts them in a single channel version for Project studios and those needing only one channel and also adds some new exciting features.

The sound is great on the solo series for budget minded enthusiasts and small commercial studios alike, but as always, our goal as always is to move products we modify into the Professional level studio range at Small studio prices.

About Solo VLA:

On the Solo VLA we offer a wonderful circuit upgrade that rivals many higher end designs along with a Cinemag output transformer upgrade option for the ultimate in Analog Mojo. 

The classic circuit offers the beloved ART Opto option and a new J-fet compression option for more flexibility.

Think 1176 or LA4a/3a style compression.

With our modifications these sound great on Bass, vocals, room mics, toms and more.

There is also a nice review on Tapeop on our classic VLA modification.

About the Modifications

We perform and number of mods on these units and gut the inside of these units so it is a lot of work, but the results are well worth it.

On these units we have modified the input, output and buffer stages with High performance Burr Brown opamps for optimum fidelity.

Coupling and de-coupling is also performed throughout the circuit using premium Panasonic parts for better frequency response, lower noise, longer life and more musicality.

The Vactrol is changed and the Tube plate voltage is increased to an acceptable level for the circuit.

Voltage rails of both the analog and B+ rails ae increased for more headroom and better HF detail.

Low noise, high performance Tubes are installed as a finishing touch.

These units have been professionally modified by our technicians and given the seal of approval to go to work at you home or in your studio.

These are beautiful sounding units with a lot of dynamic range and big bottom end.

For a finishing touch we add New anodized knobs to separate your modified unit for a stock unit aesthetically. 

The results:

The service increases the headroom of the unit, widens the frequency response, lowers the noise and increases the detail of the audio image for a more hifi, professional experience. 

The Modification also increases the speed of the attack and release times making these cool compressors useable on a broader range of applications. 

What we end up with is a Boutique sounding Tube Opto/jfet compressor that excels at an affordable price!