How about you guys try this for a preamp

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Radio shack sells 50 watt amplifiers for 50 bucks usa dollars.

Use a stereo y rca adapter to 1/4 inch female input you need a transformer for this to work or a 1/4 inch input coming from your microphone or guitar somehow. But direct is best.

This amplifier functions like a preamp significantly boosting your microphones/guitars signal level.

Its kind of noisy but with a creative use of eq and maybe a guitar pedal noise suppressor it kills the white noise that may or may not be on top of your vocals (depends on the condition of the amp)

Also the radio shack amp comes with a tone pot so you can control the tone of your vocals.

Oh yeah use a quarter inch plug to get into your mixer or console to hear the results.

You could aux your guitar pedal and turn on the noise reduction and then have your microphones aux return go post fader so that all you hear is the noise suppressed vocalsor guitar.

Super clean super cheap stuff we're talking here.

For 50 bucks and maybe 50 bucks to 200 bucks more for a fx pedal with noise reduction on it.

I think the zoom 505 has it for 59 dollars.

Check it out

Dont forget i didnt mention compression so theres more overall loudness for your vocals too, if you apply compression to your vocals.

Peace

Illa
 
Might as well buy an ART MP for less than $100US. or a tiny "note pad" (up to 4-channel) mixer by Spirit, Mackie, or Behringer with maybe 2-4 pres for maybe around $200US or so.
 
Even if you prefer Radio Shack, might as well buy a mic pre or something with an actual mic pre in it from them.
 
Why investing so much in an Radio Shack amp?
Get yourself a mixer!
You can do a lot of pretty things with it.
AND there are enough knobs to make every microphone sound like shit.
You see a mixer can not just do the things it was meant but it can also "simulate" a Radio Shack amp.
 
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