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| Brumby:
--- Quote from: borjam on October 27, 2021, 06:04:36 am --- --- Quote from: BrianHG on October 26, 2021, 08:25:12 pm --- --- Quote from: borjam on October 26, 2021, 07:57:12 pm ---Tubes add some nice sounding distortion, nothing bad of course! --- End quote --- :palm: Proper tube design should not distort the audio. Withing the proper specified audio levels, it should be as good as any modern IC amplifier. --- End quote --- Define "proper". An amplifier designed for music (especially when it takes part in the recording/production process) is not an instrumentation amplifier. It is a legitimate artistic decision to add distortion, equalize or whatnot. In this kind of equipment that is intentional, hence proper. --- End quote --- :-DD Sorry - I had to laugh. (No disrespect intended.) I've seen both sides of this topic before in a few settings - and all I will say is: You are both right! Edit: .... and it all started in 1976 when a guitarist tried to get me to hear the Marshall "tone". Once I equated "tone" to "distortion" and tuned in, it all became much clearer. |
| BrianHG:
--- Quote from: Brumby on October 27, 2021, 07:22:58 am --- --- Quote from: borjam on October 27, 2021, 06:04:36 am --- --- Quote from: BrianHG on October 26, 2021, 08:25:12 pm --- --- Quote from: borjam on October 26, 2021, 07:57:12 pm ---Tubes add some nice sounding distortion, nothing bad of course! --- End quote --- :palm: Proper tube design should not distort the audio. Withing the proper specified audio levels, it should be as good as any modern IC amplifier. --- End quote --- Define "proper". An amplifier designed for music (especially when it takes part in the recording/production process) is not an instrumentation amplifier. It is a legitimate artistic decision to add distortion, equalize or whatnot. In this kind of equipment that is intentional, hence proper. --- End quote --- :-DD Sorry - I had to laugh. (No disrespect intended.) I've seen both sides of this topic before in a few settings - and all I will say is: You are both right! Edit: .... and it all started in 1976 when a guitarist tried to get me to hear the Marshall "tone". Once I equated "tone" to "distortion" and tuned in, it all became much clearer. --- End quote --- If you are buying an audio amp/preamp for an effect, then yes, you are buying for the distortion. But this is not what a general amp should be. This is what an audio processor should be. As for the Marshall tone, you do know that all electric guitar amps are designed to distort the source audio coming in. DRASTICALLY by design. If you do not distort the signal from an electric guitar, your are left with a tin sounding, with every pluck of the guitar pick, something akin to striking thin wires with a mic on the end of each wire. It sounds like crappy tin acoustic guitar without the inserted over-amped distortion. Each guitar amp sounds different and the way tubes distort when you feed them a too high peaking signal is crucial to the resulting sound effect. This is what is meant by the 'Marshall' sound. It is just the sound effect is makes with it's audio processing as other tube guitar amp's designs will sound different as well. |
| borjam:
--- Quote from: Brumby on October 27, 2021, 07:22:58 am --- :-DD Sorry - I had to laugh. (No disrespect intended.) I've seen both sides of this topic before in a few settings - and all I will say is: You are both right! Edit: .... and it all started in 1976 when a guitarist tried to get me to hear the Marshall "tone". Once I equated "tone" to "distortion" and tuned in, it all became much clearer. --- End quote --- No offense taken of course! ;) And yes, I have seen countless puzzled musicians when I say "this distortion sounds beautiful" and they think I'm crazy! "What?? Is it distorted?? OMG!" - "Indeed, distortion is not inherently bad, it's bad only when you didn't want it!" |
| EEVblog:
--- Quote from: John B on October 26, 2021, 09:41:17 pm ---Even the MOTU Ultralite won't tick your boxes. You're probably not going to find a hardware switch solution for muting the outputs when plugging in headphones. I can't even think of an interface that has some plug detection mechanism. --- End quote --- The Rode AI-1 does it. |
| EEVblog:
--- Quote from: Bassman59 on October 26, 2021, 08:32:33 pm --- --- 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. --- End quote --- Since when is Rossman now an audio expert? --- End quote --- He worked in a recording studio for several years at least doing repairs and was doing recording and mixing gigs at night using the free time. |
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