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A preamplifier, also known as a preamp, is an electronic amplifier that converts a weak electrical signal into an output signal strong enough to be noise-tolerant and strong enough for further processing, or for sending to a power amplifier and a loudspeaker. Without this, the final signal would be noisy or distorted.

Mic preamp compressor limiter? Singing Drummer w/wireless HS

Hi everyone,

We have a female singing into a Sennheiser wireless headset. The dynamic range is just too much to be on a stationary mic attached to her head.

This is a rock band and has a pretty loud sound. She has some soul on some songs and some songs she sings more backup. Very dynamic range.

Cascading Preamps

I have kind of a newbie question. I'm interested in doing some location
recording to a Mac using a PreSonus firewire preamp, but I need more than 8
inputs. I have a 12 channel analog mixer. Can I route the two channel output
from the analog mixer into two channels of the firewire preamp without
overloading the signal or causing other problems?

:D

MAC Interface with least noise out of Preamps?

I'm upgrading my studio. Have a M-Audio Firewire 410 interface that's been giving me all sorts of trouble (software interface is buggy, drops out and comes back garbled, etc.).

Been looking hard at the PreSonus Firestudio (8 XLR Pres, 26x26 total with the optical I/O - never used the optical I/O on the 410, but need to experiment with that...need cables yet).