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Sept 24, 2007 20:02:37 GMT -5
Post by hipchip on Sept 24, 2007 20:02:37 GMT -5
Hey Chris, you must be running your students ragged since nobody seems to be posting much lately. I had to drop out of school due to health issues again, so back to bugging you. I was just wondering about pre-amps. I see most of them are one in/out, so if you wanted to use a pre-amp on say 4 vocals and maybe a couple of guitars, does that mean, at least in a live situation, you'd have to have 6 pre-amps? I see that most of the good pre-amps cost about as much as a nice car (LOL), so was just curious. How do you use pre-amps? Like in what types of situations? And this question isn't only for Chris. Dan, out on the LEFT coast :}
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Sept 26, 2007 10:00:00 GMT -5
Post by Chris Cavera on Sept 26, 2007 10:00:00 GMT -5
Hey!
Every mic needs some sort of preamp. Mic signals are weak and always need to be boosted. Most mixing boards have built-in mic preamps. In fact, most any piece of gear with a XLR input has a built in mic preamp. They will also have a trim or gain knob for each input so that you can control the amount of boost. In our studio, we have a 002 as our main interface. It has 8 inputs, 4 of them have mic preamps and 4 don't. We use 8 preamps from our mackie board instead of the 4 provided on the 002 (just to make things a little less confusing). Outboard preamps will cost you, but you could always get a nice all-purpose board and use the built-in pres. Won't sound as sweet, but it works.
-C
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Sept 26, 2007 14:59:35 GMT -5
Post by hipchip on Sept 26, 2007 14:59:35 GMT -5
Since I'm still using an M-Box 2 I don't really have to worry too much about a bunch of external pre-amps yet, but it's nice to know I figured it out correctly. I do like the idea of getting a nice board that has good sounding pre-amps though, didn't really think of that. Always wanted an excuse to get that Allen & Heath!!! (LOL) Thanks Chris, Dan'o
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