more specifically the 800R.
How's the quality on these? Any users here?
My MOTU 828II is officially full, and I will very soon need more analog inputs and this seems to be a nearly perfect solution to that and the selling off of my Focusrite TT Pro. I hated that preamp, horrible compressor, and "EQ" unit, and I'm glad its gone. My MOTU pre's sound just as good.

I am looking for some advice regarding location recording using a multicore cable.
I have heard that it is better to place a mic preamp BEFORE the signal goes through a long cable to minimize the signal losses.
So my question is: Is this true and if yes, what can be regarded as a long cable?

I need some quick opinions on overhead preamps around 1500, must be a stereo pair
thanks

I'm looking for a mic and a preamp for home studio recordings.

I reckon that if I buy a nice clean mic (Neumann TLM 103) and a nice clean preamp (Apogee Mini-Me), I'll do whatever tone coloring I need with a high class software compressor (for example UAD, Voxengo Marquis, etc).

So, no need for "colored" mics and/or preamps.

What do you think about this?

Here's anouther question for you guy's

Anybody ever track vocals or whatever using a splitter or perhaps even 2 mics side by side through 2 mic preamps to seperate tracks?

I thought this might be useful if you had 2 diff sounding preamps (ex. one dark, one bright) that during mixdown you could blend accordingly to taste, or even pan left/right etc.

I would like to know how can I bypass a Mackie 8 bus preamp. What I want is to pass the signal through an external preamp (PreSonus digimax 96k), then through the mixer for some EQ or slight compression but without affecting/changing the signal from the external preamp.

I was wondering if there would be much in quality/sound difference between the two preamps mentioned here.

Thanks

I am a few days away from receiving my first tube preamp. It's a TL Audio 5052. I wouldn't mind some crazy or not crazy ideas to use it with.

L8'r

Sorry I'm a total noob.

Are the mic preamps in all of the USB and Firewire interfaces worth crap? Is it even open to argument?

I'm just wondering whether I should got to USB or mic/line.

Thanks!

... as a console replacement for in-the-box-mixing - what do you pros recommend or what pres have you heard about?
preferably at least 8 channels, quality before bargain!
i have the impression the market is lacking such devices in proportion to the number of DAW-users.
or am i just badly informed?