Should i keep the brick?

[jasonbmerrill]

There are so many mistakes in your test assumptions it's hard to know where to start.

When the poster mentioned about using the Brick to record full mixes, he didn't mean listen to a full mix through the Brick, he meant record every track of a mix through the Brick.

thats what i did.

 

[jasonbmerrill]

it's been eluded to a couple of times in this thread but it seems very likley that you are sending the brick though the interfaces mic pre's. I have the brick and I have other op amp based mic-pres and the brick sounds compleatly different.

Are you plugging the brick in to the xlr's on the interface and turning up the gain at all on the interface?

I mean if you don't like the brick you don't like the brick It's just that what you are describing does not sound like the brick.

I sent the brick through the emu1212m inputs. which are totally line in.

 

[NL5]

It's just that mic pres, in general, are kind of over-rated. For the amount of time people spend obsessing over them, their differences are relatively inconsequential

Mic Pre's certainly can and do make a difference, but I agree 110%. People spend SO MUCH time obsessing about them. In the grand scheme of things, they don't make nearly that much difference.

 

[MCI2424]

Mic Pre's certainly can and do make a difference, but I agree 110%. People spend SO MUCH time obsessing about them. In the grand scheme of things, they don't make nearly that much difference.

I agree about the obsession, but good pre-amps are not a blow-mind first experience at all. All the recording people I have talked to have come to the same conclusion I have. When you spend a long time with good pre-amps (same with mics etc.) it is a real shocker when you go back to the cheapies. THAT is a mind-blowing first experience. I did that last month recording and mixing on a Mackie 24 desk. I tried every trick to make that damn thing sound good but no way. Everyone else thought the sound was great, but I missed my pre-amp rack so much.

 

[jasonbmerrill]

I agree about the obsession, but good pre-amps are not a blow-mind first experience at all. All the recording people I have talked to have come to the same conclusion I have. When you spend a long time with good pre-amps (same with mics etc.) it is a real shocker when you go back to the cheapies. THAT is a mind-blowing first experience. I did that last month recording and mixing on a Mackie 24 desk. I tried every trick to make that damn thing sound good but no way. Everyone else thought the sound was great, but I missed my pre-amp rack so much.

yeah i think you can only get decent pres if you are willing to spend the cash.

Which i am, i just gotta raise it