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Well SP is at it again, although they seem to be touting Burr Brown IC's, and having never really looked into mic preamp's untill now I don't know if they are quality, this is from the sit

The new Studio Projects 828 is an 8 Channel mic preamp incorporating the latest rev of Burr Brown IC's. The SP828 is also an 8X2 mixer that allows a real time mix of all 8 inputs two a stereo out bus. Housed in a 1U 19" rack, each channel on the SP828 offers:

Features

• 48V phantom power with LED
• Phase Reverse with LED
• Mic/Line Switch with LED - Defaults to 20dB Pad
• Peak and Signal Present Indicators
• Gain Control
• Level & Pan
• Solo Switch with LED

What do you guys think?

Comments

ghellquist Tue, 03/08/2005 - 10:55

Hi maintiger,
as for 8 Adat for the 828mkII, you might look into the Behringer. Yes, I know it is a swearword, but in this case I´m actually positively surprised. The preamps are actually much better than expected and the AD as well. Might mention that I do mostly acoustical music. (Classical and big band). Have had good experiences with transformerless condensors, not quite as good with dynamic mics.

Gunnar

maintiger Tue, 03/08/2005 - 11:17

I have heard the behringer- a friend of mine brought it over and like you said, we were positively surprised. I haven't needed more than the 12 inputs I currently used in my 828 mkii (2 via spdif, 2 w/ built in pres, 8 analog)
but like you say, it is definitely useable. i suspect that the SP mic pre would be better but like I said, I haven't heard it yet. I do own a sytek though and the sytek is way way better than the behringer- we did do a comparison when we had it in the studio. In fact, even a yamaha mla7 beats the behringer- though not by much, and that was the surprise.