plug ins as pres.

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ive been using some of my rtas pugins as pre amps/compression/etc. on an auxillary track routed into an audio track in pro tools and have been getting some pretty cool results.

Just wondering if anyone else has tried this and what plugs they used, and what the pros and cons were.
thanx.
 
I don't get what youm mean with a pre amp plug-in. You mean changing the "character" of your preamp? With compression i got fairly good resdults, but mind you i am really inexperienced.
 
A mic pre simply cannot be a piece of software. And if you don't know why then you have alot of reading to do. Get at it!
 
they probably like that 2bit sound when they drive their ad converter directly with a mic and then normalize it. ;)
 
A pre-amp changes the voltage going through the mic cable. dont think you're going to get a plug-in to do that.

You can do something like boosting or normalizing the signal, but you're going to boost the noise in there too.
 
Poni said:
I don't know about impossible look at guitar amp modelling.
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An amp modeler is NOT a mic preamplifier. Let me see you plug a mic into a plugin.
 
SureShotStudio said:
they probably like that 2bit sound when they drive their ad converter directly with a mic and then normalize it. ;)
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Maybe their converters are a LOT more sensitive than yours.

Actually makes me wonder if this is the future. I like sitting around and wondering. Beats workin'.
 
When you move a fader in your DAW are you changing voltages no but you do get volume changes. Can you imagine that must be magic.
 
A pre-amp changes the voltage going through the mic cable. dont think you're going to get a plug-in to do that. You can do something like boosting or normalizing the signal said:
When you move a fader in your DAW are you changing voltages no but you do get volume changes. Can you imagine that must be magic.

Sorry about the double post.
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Poni said:
When you move a fader in your DAW are you changing voltages no but you do get volume changes. Can you imagine that must be magic.
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What ?? :confused:

Here are several definitions of a pre-amp:

- An amplifier that is used before the main amplifier in a system. Usually this is an amplifier that takes microphone level signals and brings them up to line levels

- a circuit that boosts weak signals while also amplifying noise and interference

- An electrical device which boosts or buffers a signal's strength or impedance

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Guitar emulators are not preamps. First, you have to get your guitar into the recording software. When you inout your guitar, you are running it though some sort of "pre amp" stage before it gets to the computer. Faders aren't preamps, yet they change the volume. Same with aux sends etc... When a guitar emulator says "preamp" somewhere on it, that was not meant to be taken literally. It doesn't actually "preamp" anything. It is purely meant to model the TONE and CHARACTERISTICS of a certain preamp, but not to actually taken on all the FUNCTIONS of a real preamp.
 
Well, let me redefine the question in the form of an explanation.
Ill take and run the signal (say a miced guitar) into my interface througha plug that offers a really nice sounding tube compression (ik multimedias "t-racks") and i get some really good sounding results. Sorry about using the word "pre amp". Lets call it a pre process. Reguardless, the results are pretty damn awesome. My question was; Has any body tried this, and if so what plugs work well for you.
Thanx again.

Finster
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