I know this topic has been done to death, but my question is pretty specific to my situation, so i'll ask anyway...
I'm trying to power an old ribbon mic that i have. It's one of those reslo "beatles style" mics. It sounds Ok through my mixer, but it needs a lot of gain and gets a little noisy. I feel like i'm not getting the most from it.
I'm wondering if there are any decent preamps under $300 that would be an improvement over the pre's in my mixer (Allen & heath mixwizard 3) I don't own any preamps, so I'd like to get one anyway just to add a little variety to my setup. But my main goal is to make this ribbon mic into a usable tool.
I'm looking at the Studio projects VTB-1 and the Joe Meek threeQ. I've heard a lot of bad reviews of so-called "toob" pres, so I'm a little wary. can anyone tell me if these pre's are worth anything? should I just wait and save up for a neve?
thanks alot guys...
I'm trying to power an old ribbon mic that i have. It's one of those reslo "beatles style" mics. It sounds Ok through my mixer, but it needs a lot of gain and gets a little noisy. I feel like i'm not getting the most from it.
I'm wondering if there are any decent preamps under $300 that would be an improvement over the pre's in my mixer (Allen & heath mixwizard 3) I don't own any preamps, so I'd like to get one anyway just to add a little variety to my setup. But my main goal is to make this ribbon mic into a usable tool.
I'm looking at the Studio projects VTB-1 and the Joe Meek threeQ. I've heard a lot of bad reviews of so-called "toob" pres, so I'm a little wary. can anyone tell me if these pre's are worth anything? should I just wait and save up for a neve?
thanks alot guys...