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You could always experiment with a "cheap-but-OK" preamp like the $40 ART TubeMP and listen for the difference. I've used this one with great success on many instruments.

This has long been a desire of mine but somewhat intimidating. I want to do two things: mic up a kit for live performance amplification through a PA and use those same signals for recording. I want to use the mics I already own: An SM57 on the snare, MD 421 on the kick, and two large diaphram...

This is a recording scenario where I'm capturing the signal "live" during performances. To do this, I take a direct feed out of the guitarist's amp, which has already added effects the way he wants his sound sculpted for the audience. Nothing like a studio scenario where a mixer might add...

Thanks for that suggestion. I'm slightly bound by the guitar player's extensive use of effects. He loves the Pat Metheny vibe so there's often quite a bit of echo and/or reverb, distortion and other effects applied to his instrument. I'm usually playing acoustic bass, and it's always dry...

I've recently started recording live performances of my jazz duo with direct inputs from the jazz guitar and acoustic bass. It's easy enough to pan the instruments with a DAW to their "gig formation" of guitar on stage left and bass on stage right. But traditional wisdom places the bass in the...