Pre amp upgrade!...Help!

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Hey everyone,

I have the m-audio project mix I/O and I was thinking about getting a better preamp system without breaking my budget...what do you all think about this unit?

m-audio octane

Is it an upgrade from the project mix micpres or not??? I am not a techie so if you could keep it to laymen's...
:rolleyes:

thanks alot!

james
 
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In my humble opinion you'd have to go way upmarket, meaning spend some serious cash, to get anything that has mic preamps that noticeably improve on the onboard ones.

You might want to add one of these or one of these to your system just to have a single channel to use for vocals or to DI an instrument.

Why are you looking for an upgrade? Are the mic preamps noisy or not doing a good job getting the full frequency range of your microphones into the computer?


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I want to expand from 8 to 16 tracks at a time and I figured it would be an added bonus if they would be a sound improvement.
 
The Octane is the mic pre that's promoted as an expander unit for the Project Mix.

Also - please don't crosspost.

That means posting the same or a very similar question in two different forums.

You won't get a faster or better or different answer. Just pick the most appropriate forum and post your question once.

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...I know what a crosspost is guy... :rolleyes: ...this one just wasn't getting me an answer...hence the bump...

thanks,

james
 
I can vouch for the pre-amp in the second link ssscientist posted. I own a P-Solo and love it. I definitely notice and improvement from the low-end pre's I've used, and the multi-pre interfaces (such as the Firepod) - it was a worthwhile upgrade and has a great DI to boot. Won't really help you as I see you're looking for eight channels.

Honestly, I've only used a DMP3 and a Tampa as far as M-audio pre's go, but I don't imagine the Octane will offer you a noticable improvement over your ProjectMix I/O pres. If you just want to get eight more channels in, and need to do this now, go for something like a Behringer ADA8000. People seem to like them around here and it apparently does what it's suppose to - and does it well. It'll save you some money which I'd take and maybe invest in one or two quality pre's (or a two channel) that you could use for applications like vocals, or DI, etc.
 
On the cross-posting....

I hope you follow up on both threads that are going. I've seen it happen before where posters loose track of threads too easily (either cross-posted or just plain old single threads), and it becomes useless for anyone to really contribute - especially if the replies get redundant - it's a waste of time.

On that note, I hope you read my post above, and that it might be of some use to you ;)
 
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Yo, ssscientist - have you used both the P-Solo and the Grace? I've been lookin at these two for a single channel upgrade, and I basically need a lot of clean gain, but don't have the cash to buy both at once to A/B 'em... just curious if, being in the same price range and having similar specs means they perform about the same, or if there is in fact a difference (beyond say, a difference in coloration of the signal coming in)
 
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