Guitar Preamp used for Vocal Preamp?..

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Alright,..This just may be a stupid question, ...
Is is possible to use a guitar preamp for recording vocals in a pinch?
As of right now,..I do not have a vocal preamp,...
So, I was wondering if I would have stellar results using a guitar preamp
in a pinch. Recording a local hardcore band, and everything is going great
in the process, but I dread tracking the vocals as I do not have a proper
vocal preamp. It does have a "clean" tube setting.
Here is a pic of the guitar preamp I would be using:
 

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Shouldn't be a problem if that's the sound you are looking for. I use an acoustic fender amp sometimes with a SM58 running through the guitar channel and an NT5 condensor for micing the acoustic through the vocal channel and it sounds much better than the other way around.
 
I'm not sure if I see an XLR in so your going to need an adapter also I don't think that unit will supply phantom power so all you'll be able to use is a dynamic microphone.



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What are you recording everything else with?
Doesn't your mixer or interface have any preamps on it?

Not saying don't try it out, it could sound really cool, but it's probably gonna sound like vox through a guitar amp which, if it ends up not being the sound you want, you're stuck with it.

You could always record your vocals clean through whatever preamps you have on your mixer or interface, then send them out through the guitar preamp to add a bit of that color to them.
 
VESSEL2020 said:
Alright,..This just may be a stupid question, ...
Is is possible to use a guitar preamp for recording vocals in a pinch?
As of right now,..I do not have a vocal preamp,...
So, I was wondering if I would have stellar results using a guitar preamp
in a pinch. Recording a local hardcore band, and everything is going great
in the process, but I dread tracking the vocals as I do not have a proper
vocal preamp. It does have a "clean" tube setting.
Here is a pic of the guitar preamp I would be using:
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Okay, Ill come right out and say it. Your results will be crap unless you are going for some special effect. Even then it probably doesn't have the right connections, impedance or gain to do anything like what you seem to hope it will do. It is about the wrongest tool for the job imaginable.
 
bouldersoundguy said:
Okay, Ill come right out and say it. Your results will be crap unless you are going for some special effect. Even then it probably doesn't have the right connections, impedance or gain to do anything like what you seem to hope it will do. It is about the wrongest tool for the job imaginable.
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That's what I wanted to hear!
Appreciate everyone's comments,..especially yours.
I do have a Tascam m-2600 mixer w/ power supply,
but, the preamps installed seem to be weak.
I was intending on running the singers vocals through my Roland sre-555
chorus echo (which I mainly run my synths through)..
but, it seems I would definitely need a vocal preamp in front of this.
So,..That's why I was asking if there was a way around it with the GFX1
without getting a shitty sounding track. Guess I'll have to have the singer rent one for a couple hours. We are recording "live".
 

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VESSEL2020 said:
That's what I wanted to hear!
Appreciate everyone's comments,..especially yours.
I do have a Tascam m-2600 mixer w/ power supply,
but, the preamps installed seem to be weak.
I was intending on running the singers vocals through my Roland sre-555
chorus echo (which I mainly run my synths through)..
but, it seems I would definitely need a vocal preamp in front of this.
So,..That's why I was asking if there was a way around it with the GFX1
without getting a shitty sounding track. Guess I'll have to have the singer rent one for a couple hours. We are recording "live".
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The M2600 is a decent console and unless every preamp on every chanel is broken then you should be able to get a perfectly good, clean signal out of it's preamps.

Why not feed the sre-555 from an aux send and return it to another channel? Or work out another arrangement using the direct out function?

Good luck, I hope it works for you.
 
I actually just did this on a tune and the results were o.k. but probably not that much better.My reason for trying it was cause my interface has no eq controls.
I had laid down a scratch vocal track going straight into the interface but figured i'd try another track going into my Hughes and Kettner crunch machine just to try it.I thought since the guitar preamp had a 12ax7 and an El34 the tubes could add a little vocal warmth.Plus it has a nice clean sound to it.

Honestly the added eq control didn't really make that much more of a difference than applying eq post tracking.
 
G-Jay said:
The M2600 is a decent console and unless every preamp on every chanel is broken then you should be able to get a perfectly good, clean signal out of it's preamps.
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I work on an M2600 Mk II several times a week and have no problem with it. It's true you need to crank the knob most of the way up for a lot of mic/source combinations.
 
Possible? Yes

Desireable? Highly Doubtful, but certainly worth trying.
 
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