I am looking for a dual channel pre-amp in the price range of $300-$500. I want a preamp that will add a lot of warmth with low noise to a variety of instruments and vocals. It needs to be good quality and something that I can be happy with for a long time. If you have a recommendation could you please let me know what it is.

Hello everyone, just wanna start off with a huge thanks to this forum.

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I rented a pair of Neve 1084's this weekend, and am very impressed with the sound of the preamps. I left the EQ's off, with all buttons out. These preamps sound very balanced and full, and multiple tracks mix easily. Almost magical. Closer to sounding like an album than ever.

I feel completely stupid for asking this question, I feel I know too much not to know this. I want to buy a good mic preamp, never have but really need to. My question is I know I don't wanna run the new mic preamp into the 002 pre's because that would kind of defeat the purpose. So how would I hook up a pre like the Brick into my 002r so that the 002r pres aren't messing everything up.

Hey,any recomanded Preamp for Acoustic Guitar instead of Pick up..no volume control and EQ.

What i know and trusted is Fishman...

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Hi all! Has anyone got a chance yet to hear the new mic preamp's from universal audio, the 4110 and 8110? I was wondering if these are, as mentionned on the UA site really versatile as far as sound is concerned.

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What you guys think would be the best choice?

To have Apogee buddle good preamp and good a/d converter ( I meant, mine-me :) ) or just leave the a/d's job for the audio interface for now ( m-audio delta 66) and use the money to get better pair of mic preamp amps ?

NOTE: Moderator; Please quickly read this post and then go to the post below for more accurate description of my dilemma.

I have a RME multiface and have been more than happy with it. I have been using it with the PCMCIA card into my laptop but have just bought a dual G5.

This is my first post here but I wondered if anyone had thought of this.

I bought a couple of these Tube mic preamps the other day for the express intent to use the cavern'ess room, inside the chassis, to mount two 1108 vintage mic preamps.

When one opens this thing up one finds so much room you could almost mount a couple of V72's and get away with it.

what's better or more beneficial. or if you wanna answer negatively. what's worse...

1. a great mic with just an ok mic preamp/channel strip?
2. a great mic preamp/channel strip with just an ok mic?

i'm sure some will say that it's relative and depends on which pieces of equipment you're working with, but i'm just looking for a general/"in most cases" answer.