Needing decent yet cheap 4 channels of preamps

[ApolloSpeed]

I'm currently using a Delta 1010LT with two onboard preamps.......and I'm using an M-audio DMP3 on two other channels.

So, I got 4 other channels that have no preamps.......I don't wanna spend alot of money, but I don't want so shitty nady style preamp either.

Let's say I need to do this all with $300 or less......preferably less.:zombie:

I was considering like 2 Behringer T1953's.....but I'm not sure about that.......what do yall recommend?

 

[Razorjack]

Try the SM Pro Audio PR4V, better than the Behringer units and only $80 from Same Day Music. At that price it will give you 4 useable channels and leave you with some cash to put toward something else (like more Jagermeister).

 

[ApolloSpeed]

Try the SM Pro Audio PR4V,

yeah, I saw that one.....but I've never heard how good SM Pro shit is?? It's not another Nady knockoff is it ?

 

[~BURNY~]

Why don't you go for a small mixer such as Yamaha MG 12/4.
http://www.thomann.de/thoiw9_yamaha_mg124_mischpult_prodinfo.html#fpix
You can't expect an amazing s/n ratio but it's still fair for the price. You can use the inserts as direct out thus bypassing unecessary components such as eq and faders. Then when you'll be able to afford good pres, you still can use it as a very handy monitor control for the musicians.

 

[hourglass]

FWIW, I've been fucking around with the SMPro PR8 box. It's a single-space rack-mount 8-channel mic pre for under a hundred bucks - last I checked American Musical Supply had them brand-new for $99.

Stock it has the same op-amps as Behringer shit and a few extra capacitors which seem to have been left over from an initial design which would have offered a pre-gain control. They cheaped out and ditched the knob but left in the caps which really clamp down on the high end.

I removed the caps and then played around with the op-amps. With a Texas Instruments NE5532 it sounds really close to the pre in the Yamaha MG10/4 mixer I have laying around. With Burr Brown OPA2134 op-amps it actually sounds pretty clean and decent.

The mods can be found here (page 5 has a photo of what to change...):

http://www.prodigy-pro.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=344&highlight=pr8

I posted some crappy samples of the 5532's before I got the Burr Brown chips. I'll make some new samples with maybe acoustic guitar and some 7-string grindy shit when I get a chance.