What happens if I get a decent mic pre-amp and......

[Zed10R]

......plug a good condenser in to it, and then plug the preamp into a sub par (eehhhh behringer...shhh.... ) mixer? Will that make the good mic and preamp kinda pointless? Will I be defeating the purpose of having a good mic and good preamp by putting that good signal through a not so good mixer? I'm wondering how negativly that will color the sound. Any thoughts?? Thanks

 

[punkin]

What are you recording to?

 

[Zed10R]

Digital - Sonar to be specific.

 

[acorec]

......plug a good condenser in to it, and then plug the preamp into a sub par (eehhhh behringer...shhh.... ) mixer? Will that make the good mic and preamp kinda pointless? Will I be defeating the purpose of having a good mic and good preamp by putting that good signal through a not so good mixer? I'm wondering how negativly that will color the sound. Any thoughts?? Thanks

A pre-amp is a high gain amplifier. Going in to any mixing board (even by-passing the pre-amps) still puts the signal through the summing bus amplifier and adds whatever anomolies (like "color") of that amplifier to be recorded. If you can avoid it, just use the output of the pre-amp and go directly into the recording device. The Behringer mix bus amplifier will not help your signal chain at all.

So. yes, you will be defeating the purpose of a good pre-amp doing it this way.

 

[Zed10R]

A pre-amp is a high gain amplifier. Going in to any mixing board (even by-passing the pre-amps) still puts the signal through the summing bus amplifier and adds whatever anomolies (like "color") of that amplifier to be recorded. If you can avoid it, just use the output of the pre-amp and go directly into the recording device. The Behringer mix bus amplifier will not help your signal chain at all.

So. yes, you will be defeating the purpose of a good pre-amp doing it this way.

fuk. ok then. I kinda suspected that. Sooo.....does anyone know of any good quality A/B line switches?? I'm probly not using the right terms for that. I don't have any more inputs open, so I need to switch between the crappy mixer and the good preamp, but still use the same interface inputs.

 

[punkin]

I should have been more clear with my question...what sound card are you using? I'm beginning to gather that you're using a typical computer audio card (single input).

The ultimate fix for avoiding any "coloration" provided by your mixer or any mixer for that matter would be to get a multi line in audio card like a Delta 1010LT. Keep the behr for monitoring or other signal routing options.

 

[kid klash]

A pre-amp is a high gain amplifier. Going in to any mixing board (even by-passing the pre-amps) still puts the signal through the summing bus amplifier and adds whatever anomolies (like "color") of that amplifier to be recorded. If you can avoid it, just use the output of the pre-amp and go directly into the recording device. The Behringer mix bus amplifier will not help your signal chain at all.

So. yes, you will be defeating the purpose of a good pre-amp doing it this way.

Yep... what he said. Go from your snazzy pre directly into your Sonar front end.

 

[Zed10R]

I should have been more clear with my question...what sound card are you using? I'm beginning to gather that you're using a typical computer audio card (single input).

The ultimate fix for avoiding any "coloration" provided by your mixer or any mixer for that matter would be to get a multi line in audio card like a Delta 1010LT. Keep the behr for monitoring or other signal routing options.

Oh...I've got a Delta 1010 - NOT the LT. Regular Delta 1010. I've got other shit plugged into all the other inputs and I don't want to unplug one thing to plug in another and then reverse the process when I need that other thing again. That's my issue. I would like to find a way to plug two stereo units into a channel switcher thingy so I can switch between two unts that are using the same interface inputs. Does that make sense? Left and right out of mixer into "A" channel of switcher thingy. Left and right out of preamp into "B" channel of switcher thingy. Stereo output of switcher thingy into stereo input 3/4 in the Delta interface. Good solution, yes? What do I use for this switcher thingy?

 

[rsolinski]

uhhh...it's called a normalled patch bay ...almost every studio has one (actually a bunch)...no switches, just little cables to run between points... You can hard wire all 8 inputs to specfic outputs, THEN when you insert a cable into a patch point, say input 1 and 2, the original hard wired connection is broken and the new point established, not as confusing as it sounds, just google up a patch bay and the wiring instructions....either that or get a second delta unit like a 44 that will give you 4 more ins (you can use up to three delta cards in one pc)..

Ray

 

[Zed10R]

Thanks rsolinski!!

Some thing I have a good grasp on, and others....not so much. Thank you....