Cheers,
I did some Recordings this weekend mainly with the Royer R-121 Mic, which has appearently a great sound, but low leve signal, i think i need a decent single channel mic preamp that will not cost an arm or leg.
Currently i use the Mackie Onyx 1620 for everything (Mic Pre, A/D Conversion)
I´m quite happy with it for most, but this weekend ive been recording an acoustic guitar with my royer r-121 as main mic (the tone is very natural and nice) but i had to turn the preamp of the onyx all the way up to get at least a signal.
(its fingerpicking, not strumming, so its not loud.
On a guitar cab or a strummed guitar, i have enough signal and i dont need to turn the gain all the way up on the preamp, and the preamp all the way up makes it a bit sounding harsh and the noise/hissing is very audible after applying compressors / EQ, etc. on the guitar tracks.
After some research, i figured out that perhaps an api lunchbox + a single 512 Preamp Module would give me an excellent quality, for a single channel preamp totally like 1400 Euro,
And i could always expand if i wanted too
My Question is, do you know alternatives for preamps, that matches or exceed the quality of the API 512 Preamp, but is in the same pricerange (1000-1700 Euro.)
Thanks for reading and I appreciate your suggestions
exoslime
PS: another question about noise and hiss,
will the noise / hiss be the same when i do
+60 Db on the Mackie Onyx
or +40db on for example (API Preamp) and + 20db on the Mackie Preamp to achieve 60db of gain
i hope not, but i want to know before i get a preamp and then the noise/hiss issue is still unsolved
I did some Recordings this weekend mainly with the Royer R-121 Mic, which has appearently a great sound, but low leve signal, i think i need a decent single channel mic preamp that will not cost an arm or leg.
Currently i use the Mackie Onyx 1620 for everything (Mic Pre, A/D Conversion)
I´m quite happy with it for most, but this weekend ive been recording an acoustic guitar with my royer r-121 as main mic (the tone is very natural and nice) but i had to turn the preamp of the onyx all the way up to get at least a signal.
(its fingerpicking, not strumming, so its not loud.
On a guitar cab or a strummed guitar, i have enough signal and i dont need to turn the gain all the way up on the preamp, and the preamp all the way up makes it a bit sounding harsh and the noise/hissing is very audible after applying compressors / EQ, etc. on the guitar tracks.
After some research, i figured out that perhaps an api lunchbox + a single 512 Preamp Module would give me an excellent quality, for a single channel preamp totally like 1400 Euro,
And i could always expand if i wanted too
My Question is, do you know alternatives for preamps, that matches or exceed the quality of the API 512 Preamp, but is in the same pricerange (1000-1700 Euro.)
Thanks for reading and I appreciate your suggestions
exoslime
PS: another question about noise and hiss,
will the noise / hiss be the same when i do
+60 Db on the Mackie Onyx
or +40db on for example (API Preamp) and + 20db on the Mackie Preamp to achieve 60db of gain
i hope not, but i want to know before i get a preamp and then the noise/hiss issue is still unsolved