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On 7 Oct 2004 17:17:55 -0400, (Scott Dorsey) wrote:
The preamp makes a little difference, but much less than the microphones,
much much less than the rooms, and much much much less than the instruments
and performers. And much much much much much less than the production
philosophy.
--scott
In article writes:
So why is there the obsession with preamps?
It's something that today's manufacturers have given us that's easy to
change for a different sound, something that they didn't have in the
'70s. You dind't go to a different studio for the sound of the
preamps in the conosole, you went to a different studio for sound (or
size) of the room, the location, and occasionally what the producer
wanted.
It's just one more thing today that you can buy, so people do. It's
also an excuse for console manufacturers to build mediocre mic preamps
into their consoles because they expect people to substitute something
else.
It's not overblown hype, but it's a choice that we had available 35
years ago. It's like microphones - a well equipped studio in the late
'60s and '70s had some U47s, RCA 44s, and some utility dynamics,
generally Shure or EV in the US, AKG in Europe, plugged into the
console's mic preamps. The only reason why someone would use an AKG
D19 today is because he things it will make his recordings sound like
the Beatles.
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