bypass mixer, to tape through ART Tube?/position in signal path

[kristian]

question one Using Art Dual Tubes as a pre amp for all applications, getting maybe 3 or 4 boxes and running staright to tape through those. Do you think you would get better results then going through the mixer to tape, or ART then mixer then tape? see because i was looking at the behringer multicomp and multigate, and one Dual Tube, but now im wondering if i should get the gates and/or compressor later and get more ARTs for better pres.


question twowhats the best signal path if there is going to be a compressor, gate, and an ART Tube in the path?

[S8-N]

If no outboard FX are used I'd run preamp to tape and bypass everything else.
I am guessing on this one but with the FX you mentioned I'd go preamp/compressor/gate but I don't use noise gates so I dont know...

[kristian]

ok so now we have recorded to tape through the ART Tubes without anything else, and i want to bring it back through the board for a final mix. Should i run the Gate, then compression before i eve get to the Mixing board? or else if i use Aux sends there wont be enough outboard channels.

[PannyDeters]

I ran my guitar amp out to an adapter and into the "sub ins" on my 414 and heard it through the headphones. I didn't record yet but I did get sound.

Anyone else have any experiance with this? Will it be cleaner?

[kristian]

using your guitar amp as a DI is a bad idea, it will sound like one of those guitars with the built in speaker that people used to get at the end of the 80's.... a.k.a.-crap.
tried it before with my 4 track.

[PannyDeters]

I have a Tascam 414 portastudio. If I got the ART tube mp, could I run it out to a 1/4 to rca adapater and plug that into my sub ins to bypass the mixer?

If not, is there ANY way to bypass the mixer?

[kristian]

are the XLRs on 1604 bal/unbalanced? if not, do the XDR preamps exist on the Line input, or since that is Line level does not need a preamp?