I currently am looking at making some additional purchases for my small home studio. I am thinking I need to buy some decent mic pres and possibly a good outboard compressor. I am currently using a presonus firepod which has 8 channels with pres. I've heard that these are decent but not great. My budget is about $1K and would like to be able to have at least 2 good channels. Should I spend all the money on getting really decent pres our shuld I buy outboard compressors also ( I have Waves gold). I was looking at the DMP3's which seem to be pretty popular. Whould I notice a big difference between the firepod and DMP3? I already have great mics so please don't suggest buying better mics! These need to be primarily for kick/snare but would also like something that would be good for vocals as well. So should I buy lower end pres along with outboard compressors or should I spend it all on pres. What would make the biggest difference. Any suggestions on how to spend my money are appreciated. Sorry for the rambling newbie post.