"David Grant" wrote in message



If anyone knows of any resources that would help me, I'd appreciate it.

I think a reasonable first step would be to figure out how to reliably and
relevantly determine the effectiveness and performance of a mic preamp. Both
technical tests and listening tests seem relevant. Tests with various
microphones and microphone techniques and/or simulations of them seem
relevant.

Then, apply those evaluation techniques to a number of commercial products
at various price levels, as well as various technological implementations
(tubes, discrete solid state, ICs).

Identify good things, bad things, peculiarities, foibles, desirable
features, and good baseline performance in terms that are comparable across
products and implementations.

Then, design, build and evaluate a mic preamp that maximizes as many of the
high priority desirable properties as possible.