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buddpaul
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I'm a bare bones home recordist....I mean really, BARE BONES............I own a Tascam Porta 07, a decent little 4 track that a friend gave me some time ago. I've enjoyed using it, but I really couldn't get the giveaway mike (also provided free by my friend!) I was using to send a very "hot" signal into the recorder, so I thought I'd be smart and frugal and buy a 10-watt guitar amp that would serve as a "pre-amp" to boost the signal coming in from the cheap dynamic mike. So, I ran out of the amp's headphone jack into track 1 on the recorder......sounded much better......quick little conga solo.....pretty decent.....could've used a compressor, but tolerable nonetheless.
My friend had told me, "You need to actually invest in a little mixer because that amp will create too much noise." Since track 1 recorded nicely, I thought, "Well, hmph, what does he know?" So then, I went on the tracks 2 and 3 putting in a triangle and a shaker. The noise was BAD......it sounded like this weird phasing thing was going on.....like I had a cheap phaser pedal hooked up to everything.........yuck! Basically, I was wondering if someone could explain to me from an electrical engineering-type standpoint, why this is so? It has something to do with the electical signal and phasing and all of that kind of junk. Any comments?
My friend had told me, "You need to actually invest in a little mixer because that amp will create too much noise." Since track 1 recorded nicely, I thought, "Well, hmph, what does he know?" So then, I went on the tracks 2 and 3 putting in a triangle and a shaker. The noise was BAD......it sounded like this weird phasing thing was going on.....like I had a cheap phaser pedal hooked up to everything.........yuck! Basically, I was wondering if someone could explain to me from an electrical engineering-type standpoint, why this is so? It has something to do with the electical signal and phasing and all of that kind of junk. Any comments?
