Talk to me about Mic Preamps
Posted: Sat Nov 18, 2017 11:14 am
Like the title says, i am interested in knowing more about peoples experiences with mic pres. This coming year i am looking at putting together a tiny decent rack set up for recording that will be extremely minimal and budget oriented, but will hopefully be something that i can continue to grow into and keep around for a long time to come. These are some of my questions:
1.) What type of mic preamps have people used? What have you liked and what haven't you liked?
2.) In your experience, are the more expensive units a great deal better than the more budget priced ones?
3.) I have currently been looking at the ART Pro MPA II and am really interested in it. Also units like the ART Pro Channel II look interesting too. Some people have talked here on ILF about the Behringer Ultragain Pro MIC2200 too, but not really anything in depth yet. Does anyone have experience they could share about these units? Reading through things on other forums is full of tons of people hating anything that doesn't have a huge price tag and isn't associated with blues rock albums, and thus isn't really entirely helpful. I would love to try any of these or others in person, but where i live there isn't any way that would be possible.
4.) On kind of a side note, are there any rack compressors or other things that people use regularly and like that simply don't seem to be able to be substituted by what is available in your DAW? Are there any other things that i should be checking out that are a favorite of yours that you use often when recordings
In case it matters, i mainly work at the moment with recording stringed instruments, but will be / have been working with other things too.
Any information would be great and would help me a lot. I haven't really seen a dedicated thread for this yet, so if there is already one let me know
1.) What type of mic preamps have people used? What have you liked and what haven't you liked?
2.) In your experience, are the more expensive units a great deal better than the more budget priced ones?
3.) I have currently been looking at the ART Pro MPA II and am really interested in it. Also units like the ART Pro Channel II look interesting too. Some people have talked here on ILF about the Behringer Ultragain Pro MIC2200 too, but not really anything in depth yet. Does anyone have experience they could share about these units? Reading through things on other forums is full of tons of people hating anything that doesn't have a huge price tag and isn't associated with blues rock albums, and thus isn't really entirely helpful. I would love to try any of these or others in person, but where i live there isn't any way that would be possible.
4.) On kind of a side note, are there any rack compressors or other things that people use regularly and like that simply don't seem to be able to be substituted by what is available in your DAW? Are there any other things that i should be checking out that are a favorite of yours that you use often when recordings
In case it matters, i mainly work at the moment with recording stringed instruments, but will be / have been working with other things too.
Any information would be great and would help me a lot. I haven't really seen a dedicated thread for this yet, so if there is already one let me know