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In article .com writes:

Hi there - I just bought an ART Tube MP mic preamp.

It has both jack and XLR output plugs. By desk can take both. Does the
resulting sound quality depend on whether I use a jack or XLR plug?

Yes. If the XLR connectors on your mixer are for mics and the 1/4"
jacks are for line inputs (which I suspect is the case for whatever
unnamed mixer you have, since you seem to be excited about improving
it with an ART preamp) it will be overdriven and distort badly if you
connect it to the XLR inputs. Use the "jacks."

This almost certainly will pass the signal through the unnamed mixer's
mic preamp circuitry (most all of them are built like this) but at
least the mic will be connected to the ART instead of the mixer, for
better or worse.

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