External preamps w/fostex recorders

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Daniel

The bass sounds excellent (nicely played, too); a little too compressed for my taste but very solid. The snare was very cool.

Look forward to hearing esp. the vocals through the TM. I found a lack of top end "sparkle" on my first takes of warbling bird's singing through it which are almost certainly down to my recording ineptitude but I'd like to hear how you do it.

Checked out your website - time to buy a new table?:)
 
Influences and Hear an Update!

Turntablist - Goodwin's influences musically are many. We are definitely in the Alt-Pop-Rock vein. We dig the Foo Fighters/Chomsky/Jellyfish/The Grays and so many more. Jason Falkner is huge influence as well.

I posted a new rough mix with no EQ yet or real mixing yet. Just recorded these guitar tracks 24hours ago. It can be found here:
http://www.meetgoodwin.com/audio_new.htm

The right guitar track is using a Stedman N90 mic on my Marshall JCM2000 TSL601 amp pushing a 1x12 Peavey Classic cabinet. The mic is through the Focusrite Trakmaster. No EQ and just some very slight compression to tame the transients.

The left guitar track is same mic/pre setup mic'ing my TECH 21 Trademark 10 amp. This amp has a nice focused sound for recording.

The little lead parts are the Tech21 XLR recording output directly into the VF160!


I will post more updates as I complete this track.

Cheers,
Daniel
www.meetgoodwin.com
 
How are the premps that are built into the MR8? Are they allright for vocal mic inputs? How about plugging a guitar straight into the unit? I did a search here and one guy seemed very unhappy with the muddiness he got when plugging his acoustic pickup straight into the mr8.

Or is buying an external preamp a necessity? Thanks
 
You'll get better results by using a condenser type mic on acoustic guitar and ever better again by running it thru a dedicated good quality mic pre as discussed in this thread.

Food is necessary, some guys probly get great results using crappy pres.

$1000 dollar mic pres are not going to save a crap sound source.
 
Thanks for the reply.

I'll assume from your reply that people are effectively using the MR8 with a condensor mic and no external preamp. I just didn't know if everybody was using external preamps just to use the mr8 at all.

I was happy to see somebody mention success with the ART Tube MP, cuz that's more in my pricerange than a $1000 mic pre :)
 
You can not plug a condenser in to the MR8 unless it has a different power source (like an internal battery). It doesn't offer phantom power.
 
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