Has anyone had a go at the TL Audio Ivory 2 Series 5001 Quad Valve tube Preamp. What's the skinny on this unit and hows it compare to the 4 channel Sytek.

Thanks !

wussup my beloved gear junkies!
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here is my setup:
-mac G4 dual Ghz
-MOTU 896
-Focusrite ISA 110,ART pro VLA, SPL vitalizer MK2,Lexicon PCM81,Neumann U87 ( purple tag!),dbx 1066
_Wavesplatinum bundle,UAD 1 Mackie card,Altiverb
_logic audio 6.3.3
_KRK E8,ALESIS MK2

I have a Mackie 8-24 mixer and am wondering how to connect an external preamp (when I get some). I looked at the wiring diagram for the board and it appears that I should use the "channel insert" to feed the signal to the board. This way I would be entering the board's input chain AFTER the Mackie's internal preamp.

Hello Guys!

Does anybody work with this box or know how it sounds?

Thanks - Vagelis

I'm wanting to take the next step and see how different my recordings sound with an external preamp. Right about now you're thinking to yourself, "What a loser! Never even purchased a real preamp yet." I'm currently using a Mackie 24 channel 8-bus board paired with a MOTU 828MkII A/D converter. Been recording with this gear for about three years.

I am trying to narrow it down for mic and mic preamp choices for next purchase, any help in this process is appreciated.

Below is part of the equation, you Choose which Matched pair SD Mics you would use and which Dual Mic Pre and if possible Why you chose what you did under the following conditions:

Hi,
So far this is what i know
If i have a mic and i want to get a decent sound to my PC, one way of going about it is to put the mic into a combined A/D converter and mic preamp amp and then send this to a digi 001 system and it pops out at the computer.

Millennia
pendolum
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In your experience how are the all in one solution like quartett or stt1?
better an all in one solution or not?

thanks

Im runnin line in from an acoustic pickup, and from an electric Bass into a mixing board, to a soundblaster in my comp.

is it all about the Preamp, because my sound qaulity is not what I'm looking for, i gotta boost stuff in my editing prog and it muffles it even worse... i get hiss and just an over all bad sound.

Hi all. I just wanted some opinions on what pre(s) to look at...
I want to buy one nice pre mainly for electic guitar and male rock vocals. I'd like to keep it around $1500, but cheaper is always better (duh). I'm going to be recording alt/rock/prog directly to a DAW using a MOTU running at 96k and 24bit. A little color would be nice I think...