using normal amp as mic preamp

[chensen]

this may seem like an odd question. but can you use a guitar or bass amp's pre for a mic to go through? i've tried recording this with a dynamic mic before and i liked the results.. but will it damage my amp or mic? and what about using a condenser, will the phantom power damage my amp?

 

[crazydoc]

Sure you can. The mic, for best results, should be a high impedance one. Just plug it into the instrument input of the amp.

I doubt if you can physically plug a phantom powered mic into the amp, unless it has an XLR input. If there's no phantom power available from the preamp, it won't damage anything - it just won't work.

 

[chensen]

many thanks.

 

[The Green Hornet]

Yo Chesen:

Here is a little trick I discovered a while back. I have this neat small, but powerful, KG amp that I keep in the studio. Most of the time I use it to listen to some electronic keys from my electronic piano.

But, one time a fine bass player, a friend of mine, stopped over to do a bass line for a novelty song I recorded. Instead of running his electric bass through the amp and micing it, I noticed the amp had a "go through the speaker" switch. So, I used the amp, no sound through the speaker, to go direct to the recorder -- worked fine.

If you get a good result, who cares how you get it?

Green Hornet

 

[Zal0m0n]

nice!

I have looked ewerywere for this do you get god sound? I was wondering if i could use a regular amp as mic pre amp because first I was wondering to use car amp as mic pre amp, so my sound is noisy but it works with a phantom powersuply condenser mic and car amp with psu to soundcard

 

[Steenamaroo]

I think two different things are being covered here.

You can use a guitar amp or bass amp as an instrument preamp. ie Istrument - amp - line out - converter.

I wouldn't bother trying to use a traditional stereo/guitar amp as a microphone preamp though, unless it has a dedicated microphone input.
Even at that, those are generally for live or rehearsal use.
If you want to record using a microphone, pick up a proper microphone preamp.

 

[grimtraveller]

do you get god sound?

The God sound is earth shattering ! Universe rotating !
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