Hello, Billisa

[robjh22]

Bill (?), I read with interest your post in the microphone thread, but did not understand it well. I am so new it's scary -- were you referring there to a (stereo??) preamp you use with your VF? Please tell me how you run your mikes into the VF, whether you play guitar directly into a mike (as opposed to "into a guitar amp and then into a mike"), and then does the mike go to a preamp before you go into the VF? Give me every detail you care to part with. I'll lap them up like soup.

I posted these same and other questions in the Newbie forum under a thread named "I can ask anything?" so if you have time, respond there as well. If I can return the favor from down here in Dallas, "whar ever'thang's bigger" (if not better), let me know.

thank you.

 

[billisa]

Hi...

I have a pair of Studio Projects B1's, a Behringer 2200 Ultragain (2-channel preamp), plus other items... I either run the mikes into the Behringer, then into the VF80, or I simply go direct into the VF80, as it has phantom power... As to guitars, I've plugged direct into the VF80, with excellent results, and I've used miked input, and been very happy. The guitars that I've miked were acoustic/electric. The all-electric has always gone direct into the VF80. So many combinations work very well.

My main concern is having a quiet, accurate input on voice. The B1's have been excellent in this regard. Going through the Behringer or direct through the VF80, they allow me to do a voiceover without music background, and the result is VERY QUIET. A music bed would make mike self-noise less noticeable, but just a mike alone, in a quiet room on playback, you can hear everything. The B1's have a self-noise spec of 12db, pretty low. The Rode NT1a spec is 5db (VERY LOW). But some much loved mikes have as much as 20db self-noise... Hope this helps.