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Hi all, I have my Delta 66 card in the PC and working well.

I have all the live guitars needed plus Bass & Drums, pianos, strings, etc etc from a Roland RA 800 straight into the Delta 66.

I use a digitech RP2000 guitar effects with Preamp built in taking care of the guitar side of this.

I now need to decide on a preamp for vocals OR a small mixer/preamp combined?

I have a Midiverb II which I intend to use to color vocals with.

I will record everything in a smallish room with a carpet on the floor and play & sing everything myself.

The guitars and rythmn sections will go straight in and only the vocals will require miking up so there will be no live drums getting miked up etc etc.

I will record a max of 4 tracks at a time into VST 24.


Budget will be around $300 to $400 US.

If anyone could throw some light onto the pros and cons of mixer/preamp vs preamp.....I would very much like to hear from you.

Best Regards

Alan
 
I would suggest going with an individual preamp.

The quality of preamps on mixers vary depending on the brand of mixer you buy. Many people complain about the horrible preamps on Behringer mixers, and this may be true for all mixers in the budget price range. With a dedicated preamp, you can get better quality at a lower price, but the downside is you can only record one (or maybe two) instruments at a time with a dedicated preamp.

I have a Studiomaster Diamond 16x2 mixer which about 10 years ago was in the $500 range. It's a great mixer but I'm not all that jazzed about the preamps. I much prefer to record each track individually using my ART Tube MP.

Cy
 
Yo 88 keys:

For a few dollars more, you can get a Grace Design 101. This will be my next purchase. I have an ART dual channel and it works all right but it isn't even close to the specs on the Grace Design.

You can check out Grace on the net.

Best price I've found so far is 545 USD from Cascade Media in Seattle.

There are certainly many good choices for a pre amp. But, like having a good mic for vocals and a couple of decent cables, a good mic preamp is a good investment.

Green Hornet ;) :D :D :cool:
 
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