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.

Hello Everyone!

I'm sure most of you know the Focusrite octo pre that can connect to a digital workstation via a firewire.
Well I am looking for pretty much the exact same thing but one that is much better sounding and less channels, maybe a 2 channel.

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 single channel tube mic preamp for $399 or less. I know I'm asking for a lot without having to resort to a starved plate design. I don't mind shopping used if need be. It'll be used on vocals and mic'd electric guitar.

I'd love to go for the UA Solo/610, but at $800 it's a bit out of my range.

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'm wondering about the merits of tracking with lots of available types of preamp's vs using a really large great sounding console? And how many people today still track with just one console?

IOW would I be better off buying anouther type of preamp to complinent my Focusrite ISA428? For a better soundstage and instrument seperation?

hey everyone,

I am in the market for a new higher end preamp (currently only Twin Track Pro and the Tascam FW-1884 on board pres).

I am looking at the ISA 428, and recently because of all the great feedback, the JML TMP8.

I like the 428 because of the A/D card I can get along w/ 4 great pres..giving me 8 extra inputs in addition to my current 8.

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.