Bypassing the Mbox mic pre's?

[guitarplayr]

Hi There,

I have a M-Audio DMP3 and wish to use it to record in Pro Tools while bypassing the Mbox mic pre's. I have read that even when your going thru the line in's on the Mbox, you're still going thru the built in pre's

My angle is to run 2 condensor mics to my DMP3, (1 vocal mic, 1 acoustic guitar -or- 2 mics for acoustic guitar) and 2 Studio Projects VTB1's (double mic'ed Marshall cab) into my 8 input Behringer 802mixer thru the line-in's (to bypass mixer pre's) then line outs to the line ins on the Mbox. My next purchase will be a better mixer

How would I find out if my mixer line-in's bypass the mixers mic pres?

Thanks,

Guitarplayr

 

[bennychico11]

Hi There,

I have a M-Audio DMP3 and wish to use it to record in Pro Tools while bypassing the Mbox mic pre's. I have read that even when your going thru the line in's on the Mbox, you're still going thru the built in pre's

My angle is to run 2 condensor mics to my DMP3, (1 vocal mic, 1 acoustic guitar -or- 2 mics for acoustic guitar) and 2 Studio Projects VTB1's (double mic'ed Marshall cab) into my 8 input Behringer 802mixer thru the line-in's (to bypass mixer pre's) then line outs to the line ins on the Mbox. My next purchase will be a better mixer

How would I find out if my mixer line-in's bypass the mixers mic pres?

Thanks,

Guitarplayr

well, first off, if you're plugging microphones into your behringer mixer...how are you going to amplify the mic signal by going through line in? the signal will be too weak.

typically you look at the schematics of your mixer to see how signal is being routed. However, most mixers have a trim/preamp gain knob up at the top of the channel. If you turn this and the line level signal changes, then you know you're running through an gain stage of some sort....which is usually the same stage the microphone goes through on a lot of mixers.

 

[guitarplayr]

Mics into the pre's, pre's to the mixer, mixer to the mbox

 

[bennychico11]

Mics into the pre's, pre's to the mixer, mixer to the mbox

oh, you said you're running two mics into your DMP3 and two mics into your mixer....do you just mean you're not recording more than two mics at once, right?

 

[guitarplayr]

Right, I wont be recording more than 2 at a time, but my goal is not tear down and rewire shit evertime I want to throw down a quick demo. Also I can patch my DR707 thru another input and voila.

 

[guitarplayr]

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