I am a beginner artist and am looking to get a good recording set up. Right now, I have an at2035 and a guitar with a built in pickup. All I need is a dual channel Preamp, Ive been looking at the Mackie BlackJack Onyx and PreSonus Audiobox 2x2 USB. The only requirements are, I can hook up my guitar, my mic, it can connect to my windows PC, and is under 150 bucks.

I've been doing a shootout with Uad's newer preamp modeling plugins just using the preamp stage of their plugins set to Mic. It's pretty cool. There's something about them that is not a normal plugin in my opinion.

Hi Everyone,

Hello, Im Don Jaye. I want my vocals to be crystal clear with a little warmth.

- I have a Apogee Duet 2 going into Logic Pro
- avantone c12
These two are not getting me the professional sound I'm looking for.

I will ONLY be using this chain for vocals and my budget is 2,000.

I was thinking of the Neumann tlm 102 and maybe a UA 610 for preamp.

Which is best-or is it situationally dependent?

Why?

Have at 'er.
K.

Ok, so I just went out and purchased my first Preamp. I've always milked everything out of the pretty decent preamp built into my 18i20 Focusrite audio interface, but I realized it was time for something new.

Hi all,

Some info, and two specific questions at the end.

I know this is an old article, and may have already been discussed nigh to death, but my searches couldn't find it, so here goes.

This is fascinating.

Nice.

Yes, the mistake in Focusrite name was intentional ;)
I love my ISA preamps but this 56 was a pain from day 1, it went to the service center and return in the same condition.. At first it was just channel one, so I just accepted it to avoid loosing the unit 3months again...
Now the problem occurs on more than one channel so here's the cry for help !