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Eddmann69 said:Well, I feel like an idiot, sorry to screw up your name Harvey, I VERY much appreciate your input on this matter, you are the man with a reputation for greatness in this field. I have not yet changed any of the settings on the SM7, so I am assuming they are still set to flat response, but I will double check that tonight, as well as pop the cover off the VTB-1 and remove the tube and try again. What I came to realize last night is, there is a hiss whenever EITHER of my preamps are hooked between the mic and the Mbox, so since the Mbox already has Focusrite Preamps built in to the inputs, could the hiss be caused by a preamp going into a preamp? Or could I possibly have a noisey/shorted Mbox? I did NOT try the preamp comparo through my Tascam US-122 yet, so if I DO get the hiss with both preamps through that as well, then I will be able to narrow it down a little further...
Thank you for your continued help with my dumb problem...........I really appreciate everyones input.
Eddie.
If you are running into the XLR input on the MBox, you are stacking your preamps, which may account for the noise. Despite the misinformation posted earlier, the 1/4" out on the back of the VTB-1 is a TRS balanced out and you should use a TRS cable to connect it to a line-in on the Mbox. Like Harvey, I have never noticed excessive hiss with my VTB-1.