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On May 31, 8:52*pm, "Arny Krueger" wrote:
"Mike Rivers" wrote in message





drichard wrote:

I don't have a subscription to Recording. Would it be
possible for you to tell me the focus of the article?
The title "The $5 preamp Urban Legend" doesn't help me
much, other than to tell me it has something to do with
preamps.

In the article, Paul describes the other costs involved in
making a $5 IC into a serviceable box that has a mic input
on one side and a line output on the other - connectors,
box, power supply, pots, switches, transformers, and other
miscellaneous components. It all comes out to be a bit
over $500 as he analyzed it, and he did his usual
excellent job of putting on the hat of a designer and
manufacturer and looking at all the little things that
people who say "it's a simple construction project" don't
talk about.

It's pretty incredible that some people do manage to build a servicable
preamp with all those things; connectors, box, power supply, switches and
other miscellaneous components for more like $50 than $500. I'm specifically
thinking *of the Rolls MP13.

Just about *everybody* can build a fairly servicable mixer with from 8 to 16
mic inputs for $500.

Well, a *usable* mixer. *Servicable* is the thing it's not -- and it's
not likely to last more than a couple of years.

Peace,
Paul