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Does This Audio MIcrophone Preamplifier Product Exist?
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Bassman59:

--- Quote from: borjam on October 26, 2021, 07:57:12 pm ---Tubes add some nice sounding distortion, nothing bad of course!

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A good tube audio design doesn't add any distortion.

A bad tube audio design adds distortion.
Bassman59:

--- Quote from: optoisolated on October 26, 2021, 12:22:05 pm ---Reach out to Louis Rossman and see if he has any all in one suggestions. From what I've seen though he tends to favour software DSPs with a decent ADC. Also try SpectreSoundStudios as well. He reviews a lot of that sort of equipment and may be able to point you in the right direction.

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Since when is Rossman now an audio expert?
BrianHG:
Sadly, the best audio limiter for speech and youtube video I've found was the original one built into windows.

Under 'Speaker Properties / Enhancements', Loudness Equalization, set it's settings to 'Short' and everything you hear on youtube comes out at 1 perfect volume.  Even watching movies with it on during the middle of the night makes the speech hear-able at 1 level even with surrounding music and effects also being moved down to that 1 level.

Note that some custom sound-card drivers remove the smart Microsoft one/version and I recommend disabling them for the default Microsoft sound drivers just to get this one original feature as it is so good.

If I were ever to make a youtube channel, I would manually process my audio track though this processor before publishing as for when it comes to speech, all others pale in comparison.
Bassman59:

--- Quote from: EEVblog on October 26, 2021, 11:56:06 am ---
--- Quote from: borjam on October 26, 2021, 10:17:25 am ---SSL has a special offer, their audio interfaces include the SSL Production Pack for free. Essentially you want VocalStrip 2, which would solve your problem but it is a plugin.

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Yeah, I don't want software solutions, I'm specifically interested if an all-in-one hardware solution exists.
I've asked thsi a few times now, and no one has pointed one out, so I'm guessing the answer is no. This thread was my last ditch effort to find one if it exists.

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Other than that ART product, what you want does not exist. Almost. Can I suggest two pieces?

Look at the Mackie ProFX10v3. It's a mixer with a 2-out (to the computer)/4-in (from the computer) USB audio interface built in. It has four mic inputs with phantom power. I bought one for my kid so he could do remote school as well as recording his violin practices and it works well.

It has the feature you need: the four mic input channels each have insert jacks so you can patch in an analog compressor or de-esser. You can probably find dbx and Drawmer compressors for pennies.

So yeah, not "all in one," but it will cost you a whole lot less than anything you'll build yourself for a one-off.
Bassman59:

--- Quote from: BrianHG on October 26, 2021, 08:33:48 pm ---Sadly, the best audio limiter for speech and youtube video I've found was the original one built into windows.

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While doing remote-learning last year, my kid (then a 6th-grader!!!) had to prepare short presentations with voice-overs. I recorded his voice using a CAD E-100 mic with pop-stopper into a Mackie 1402VLZ3 which fed converters I designed. I recorded right into Logic.

After recording his voice I used one of the standard compressor plug-ins for some squeeze, same things I use when mixing down songs. It's just a matter of getting the right settings, which is easy if you have any experience in using compression.

It didn't hurt that I taught him to stay on-mic and keep the distance between his mouth and the mic constant. He wore headphones so he could hear how proximity effect made his voice deeper as he moved in closer. (I'm pretty sure none of the other kids in his class had a parent who was a touring sound mixer, because I know all of the sound guys in town and their kids ...)

Of course I high-passed the audio -- and the high-pass is the real secret.
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