USB Mic Pre Comparison

[IS]

Has anyone ever done any kind of comparison on the M-Audio Mobile Pre USB
and the Tascam US-122?

If so is there a way to read about the results?

Thanks.

IS.

[Mike Rivers]

In article > writes:

> Has anyone ever done any kind of comparison on the M-Audio Mobile Pre USB
> and the Tascam US-122?

What do you expect? They're both fairly inexpensive boxes with
functional preamps. Neither will beat any outboard you're likely to
use. The TASCAM (I haven't tried an M-Audio) will work fine with a
reasonably hot mic but if you need all the available gain to record a
quiet source, you'll find it a bit noisy. But I expect that you'd find
the same results with any similar unit. Preamps are there for your
convenience. If you care about preamps, you'll use an external one.



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I'm really Mike Rivers - )

[IS]

>
> What do you expect?

I'm expecting a fairly decent quality. I know "fairly decent" is relative.

I need this preamp to go around town with my laptop and record street sounds
and noises of traffic whizzing by and heavy duty construction site sounds
that I need to include in a short video for a friend.

Thanks.

IS.

[reddred]

"Mike Rivers" > wrote in message
news:znr1066832597k@trad...
>
> In article > writes:
>
> > Has anyone ever done any kind of comparison on the M-Audio Mobile Pre
USB
> > and the Tascam US-122?
>
> What do you expect? They're both fairly inexpensive boxes with
> functional preamps. Neither will beat any outboard you're likely to
> use. The TASCAM (I haven't tried an M-Audio) will work fine with a
> reasonably hot mic but if you need all the available gain to record a
> quiet source, you'll find it a bit noisy. But I expect that you'd find
> the same results with any similar unit. Preamps are there for your
> convenience. If you care about preamps, you'll use an external one.
>

And Ego Systems has a USB unit that only has line ins and outs.

jb

[Mike Rivers]

In article > writes:

> I'm expecting a fairly decent quality. I know "fairly decent" is relative.
>
> I need this preamp to go around town with my laptop and record street sounds
> and noises of traffic whizzing by and heavy duty construction site sounds
> that I need to include in a short video for a friend.

Yer nutz! Get a Minidisk recorder and a companion stereo microphone.
Borrow or rent one if you don't want to buy it. A laptop computer is
OK if you're going to actually set up to record, but for sound
gathering, you need something more portable and less haywire. You
might have to get out in a hurry.


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I'm really Mike Rivers - )