Pre-Amps
Sunday, August 17, 2008
, Posted by Anonymous at 1:47 AM
A pre-amp is for boosting your audio signal to it's optimal performance. Pre-amps also color the signal, often in a good way. Depending on if you pick right, you could have one with dominate "warmth" presence (actually, it's just analog distortation, but what do I know) to an otherwise mechanical, harsh, digital, sounds-like-it-came-from-a-cheap-computer sound. A pre-amp can be bought in it's own stand-alone version or if you desire, can use the ones built-in to your mixer (usually it's only the ones with at least 2-inputs and up). Still you may want to use both the pre-amp and mixer and turn off the mixing boards cheap ass mic-pre to substitute it with your higher end one. If you cannot turn off the pre-amp on the mixer, simple plug it in an input that doesn't say it uses a pre-amp (trust me, those manufacturing companies are cheap and only one or two of your inputs even have a pre-amp, which are track 1 and track 2). Prices for pre-amps range from $100 to $1000+ depending on brand, quality and vintage rarity. The best brands (like that avalon you might have heard on numerous hip-hop records) are priced in the thousands, far beyond the price of the average consumer, still it is a must you get. Remember though that these are for your mic so if your microphone sounds like crap all a pre amp will do is make a shiny piece of crap, it's not Houdini.
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