antispatula
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I want to get a tampa, I've heard they're super for their price. I don't know if some pre's work better with analog or not. Will this work?
First of all I don't know either. So I have no idea.antispatula said:I don't know if some pre's work better with analog or not.
FALKEN said:OK. for the most part it isn't going to matter what your recording medium is. a preamp is still going to do what a preamp does. if you are going for a certain sound from a certain preamp you are still going to get it. you can probably hear the differences better on a digital setup, but I don't think there's any specific pre's that are "better" for digital or analog. what are you upgrading from?
antispatula said:I am upgrading from the crappy built-in pres in my 25 year old mixer.....That's why I have no expirience with external pre's.
antispatula said:does it matter which preamp you use w/ analog?
cjacek said:What mixer ? What makes you believe they're crappy ? Why do you feel you need to shell out the bucks for an external preamp ?
SteveMac said:I'm going 4th or 5th what was already said and say you should just work with what you have, get to know it's limitations and then maybe decide if you need something else. Seems to me like you already have some pretty cool equipment for being only 16. Have you used the Otari yet?
FALKEN said:what deck are you using?
I was about 15 when I started out on a portastudio.
antispatula said:It's an old peavey mixer, looks pretty old. I don't have any date, and couldn't find any info on it. The pre's sound ok, but past 65% they get a little noisy and buzzy and crackly. Aren't external preamps usually always better than built in ones? Should I not get an external one? My mixer is a Peavey MD II 16X2. I don't know if those are well known or not. Hm.....maybe I should stick with the onboard ones for right now......