"Roy W. Rising" wrote in message
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(hank alrich) wrote:
Why spend twice the cost of a decent preamp on a mic that one will then
connect to a truly mediocre preamp? Please explain how that makes sense.
An RNP is half his budget. I may have saved him almost half a grand.
When you were mixing for bigtime broadcast, how many Mackies were in the
suite? How many Behringers?
I guess it comes down to this: What, *exactly*, will a high-end
preamplifier do that the chips in lower cost mixers will not? I do not
refer to the added bells and whistles plus booster and/or line amplifier
that comes with the package ... just the preamplifier. Nor do I refer to
a
few dB difference in noise or dynamic range, or a few microseconds
difference in transient response.
In this case, the OP is contemplating moving up from an ART and a Behringer
to an RNP. The question is not what the better preamp will do that the
cheapies won't. The question is, rather, what the better preamp WON'T do
that the cheaper preamps will. The answer is that it won't add the really
nasty high-order distortions that make cheap preamps unpleasant.
I've looked at the distortion spectra from cheap preamps, and they almost
invariably have lots of high-order distortion products. I've looked at the
spectra from better preamps, and, mostly, they don't.
Peace,
Paul