
Slackmaster2K
Gone
Here's my dumb question:
I'm should be receiving my ART Tube MP today with any luck. I got the single channel version because it's what I could afford right now...and there's no price break for the dual channel.
Very soon I might come in to several new (used, actually) SM57-quality microphones. Using multiple microphones on my amp is what I will want to do.
I realize that it wouldn't make sense to plug the tube MP into the crappy pre's on my mixer. So if I want to use more than one microphone, I would plug the primary mike into the ART MP, and the ambient mics into the "crappy" mixer.
Now the problem is getting them into the same source. Should I simply buy or build a Y style adapter to send the mixer signal and the ART MP signal to the soundcard?
Are there simple passive mixers available that I can simply plug everything into (basically a glorified Y cable)?
How hard would it be to make a simple, quiet little device like that? Something that wouldn't change the sound of the signal at all....a patch bay I guess it'd be.
I'm very much in the experimenting stage so please don't get down on me and tell me to buy this or that for $1000. I only spend money when I'm confident with my knowledge (or desperate, heh). This will be my first experience with a real, decent preamp...and with multiple mikes (unless you include the Walmart Kareokee mike I sometimes stick behind my amp...weird sounds from that thing).
Thanks,
Slackmaster 2000
I'm should be receiving my ART Tube MP today with any luck. I got the single channel version because it's what I could afford right now...and there's no price break for the dual channel.
Very soon I might come in to several new (used, actually) SM57-quality microphones. Using multiple microphones on my amp is what I will want to do.
I realize that it wouldn't make sense to plug the tube MP into the crappy pre's on my mixer. So if I want to use more than one microphone, I would plug the primary mike into the ART MP, and the ambient mics into the "crappy" mixer.
Now the problem is getting them into the same source. Should I simply buy or build a Y style adapter to send the mixer signal and the ART MP signal to the soundcard?
Are there simple passive mixers available that I can simply plug everything into (basically a glorified Y cable)?
How hard would it be to make a simple, quiet little device like that? Something that wouldn't change the sound of the signal at all....a patch bay I guess it'd be.
I'm very much in the experimenting stage so please don't get down on me and tell me to buy this or that for $1000. I only spend money when I'm confident with my knowledge (or desperate, heh). This will be my first experience with a real, decent preamp...and with multiple mikes (unless you include the Walmart Kareokee mike I sometimes stick behind my amp...weird sounds from that thing).
Thanks,
Slackmaster 2000