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Post by roly on Jun 13, 2021 7:14:57 GMT -5
I have sold everything except an early Millennia Quad preamp, and two McCurdys.
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Post by Auf Kiltre on Jun 13, 2021 7:52:50 GMT -5
Roly, I know you do/did some amp tech'ing and am curious, have you ever looked inside any of these preamps? While looking around for single channel pre's like the Daking Mic Pre One I've wondered what makes them so dang expensive. Is it components or name?
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pdf64
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Post by pdf64 on Jun 13, 2021 8:34:48 GMT -5
A high quality mic transformer can be pretty expensive. And for the lowest noise, input stage will need to use discrete, selected transistors. Whereas a regular PA mixer channel will probably just use opamps to cover both functions, and sound fine, for 1/100 of the cost.
As the customer will be paying a heap more just to get the parts that really matter right, they (or the marketing dept) will probably expect super high grade mojo parts everywhere else. So the cost ratchets up.
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Post by ninworks on Jun 13, 2021 13:57:14 GMT -5
I have a number of mic preamp options but my best are an API A2D and Focusrite ISA428. Both are excellent and way too expensive. It could be worse. I could have jonesed for a Neve 1073 or two. I also have 8 channels of mic preamps in the Focusrite 18i20 audio interface that are quite colorless and sound pretty good. There is also a single channel mic preamp in my Avid Eleven Rack that I still use occasionally when speed and convenience are an issue.
Way down on the list I have an old Digidesign M-Box 2 Pro that has 2 channels of mic preamps in it. I also have an old Mackie 1202 mixer with 4 mic input channels if push comes to shove but I don't think anyone can push me that hard. Back in their day the Mackie's were very good compared to most consumer-level devices. Not so much anymore. I have the Mackie set up just before my powered monitors in the studio where I use if strictly for monitoring. I have two DAWs, the Eleven Rack, and both mic preamp's aux sends, plugged into it so I can monitor the source and get latency-free monitoring while overdubbing. I have been considering patching my old Lexicon PCM70 into the effects loop on the Mackie so I can have a little reverb in my headphones when overdubbing without having to use computer resources on a plugin. The Lexicon sounds wonderful. It's just noisy.
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