set up studio

[Mr Chris Aitken]

Lennart Sorensen wrote:

>On Sat, Feb 09, 2008 at 12:23:37PM -0500, chris-n/jUll39koHNgV/OU4+dkA at public.gmane.org wrote:
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>record player preamps are NOT for microphones.  They are for record
>players only and nothing else as far as I know.
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>For a microphone you want a microphone amp.
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Okay, thanks. I ordered an A.R.T. tubemp tube microphone pre-amplifier. 
It is also a D/I box and works as an instrument (bass, guitar et al.) 
pre-amp as well. That should do it.

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>>*Balanced/Unbalanced*. I have a dog?s breakfast of balanced and unbalanced 
>>devices/cables/adaptors in my studio. I really don?t want to have to get a 
>>physical mixer (because of the expense) so I am using a patch bay. Nice and 
>>simple. Unfortunately, after years of using this (just to choose among 
>>listening to my tapedeck, CD player, and computer) I did a web search and 
>>find that it is probably an unbalanced patch bay (TASCAM PATCH BAY PB-32P). 
>>Rats. 
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>Yeah it is described as 32 mono jacks, so unbalanced only.  The balanced
>PB-32B would have "stereo" jacks.  The balanced model can run either
>(just like the emu1212m).
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I could probaly get the PB-32B on ebay for 50 bucks...

Chris

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