My board only has 4 mic preamps. Any suggestions for a nice pre for kick drums and/or snares? I'm not really looking in the high-endrange of $4,000...Something reasonably priced around $300-400 that is crisp and punchy. I'd welcome any suggetstions even out of my price range; I could always make it part of my "wish list." This is for a live submix to our main mixer during gigs.

If I purchased a Digidesign 002 or 003 unit (with or without control board), what would be the best way for me to have a 12 mic preamp setup for simultaneous recording. since the 002 and 003 units only have 4 mic preamps. I don't want to have to buy 3 003 units to do this. If that solution would even work.

OK...
So a friend of mine has a 002r and he had the mic preamps hot rodded to API pres. Has anyone ever heard of this. If so do you know where I could have it done? how much it cost? any of that?
Thanx, Jeremy

Opinionsor experiece with good 4-8 channel mic preamp's? Loookin for anyone who has used the Presonous digimax, Focusrite octopre, Mackie onyx Millennia hv-3d or other multi-channel preamps. Im trying to gather some info on the pros/cons of each, and which ones will give the best sound. Any help, ideas, input is greatly appreciated!

Thanks! :D

I'm curious - is it common to replace tubes in mic preamps (before they burn out)? And does it actually make a lick of a difference?

Hey there everyone...I have a pritty basic qustion...
I have a home recording studio where I record mainly drums/other instruments like bass and guitars...its all working nicely but when I try and record Vocals or any other very 'soft' I seem to get realy hard buzzez/all kinds of noises/un-clearnes in the tracks...I use a RODE ntk tube mic to a 16 track Mackie to a digi002.

What would you recommend for the best two channels of microphone preamping for 1000.00?

They will be running to an Mbox 2, and Mac OSX on pro tools

Microphones right now are an SM57 and a RODE NT1A.

This setup will be used for recording guitar amplifiers, with up to 2 amps at a time.

My budgets $400 or less. I'm gonna be recording loud female and male vocals for project studio.

What about "the brick"?

Thanks!

Hey i looking at getting a mic preamp as my next purchase. I'm fairly new to recording so i don't know much. i was just wondering if anyone has used any of those art pres like the MPA GOld or the pro channel or if anyone has any suggestions for a pre under 500. I was also looking at the brick which seems to get really good reviews. i have PreSonus firepod with Cubase 4.

hi there I'm thinking of getting a little external tube mic preamp to "warm and fattern" up my mics sound which is used only to record vocals. the equiptment i have is a RODE nt1000 and a zoom mrs1004 digital workstation. the RODE nt1000 is quite a nice sounding mic but a little too bright so I'm looking for something to warm it up.