[Scott Dorsey]

Dr. Dolittle wrote:
Mike Rivers wrote:

There's a somewhat popular opinion that if you do a
lot of overdubs using the same mic and preamp, unless you're really
aware of what's happening, the "color" of the preamp can build up in
your mix and it's hard to separate things.

There was a time, when most of the best music was recorded, that it was
done with the preamps in the board. All the same. Maybe the popular
opinion has it backwards?

There was a time, though, that the preamps in a typical studio board sounded
pretty good. That is no longer a good assumption, and it's the reason the
huge aftermarket in mike preamps started to take off the the late eighties.
--scott
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