"paul m" wrote in message
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Thanks for the responses. I should clarify - I am using a Tascam US
428, which can take both line level and XLR mike inputs. Therefore I
should be able to get around the internal amp issue, no problem.

So it sounds like the jack is the way to go, thanks eveyone.

What you're missing is the fact that in most inexpensive mixers, the line
input is attenuated to avoid problems with overloading, and then passed
though the mixer's mic preamp. You end up putting the music through two mic
preamps in a row. It's pretty easy to make the sound dirtier this way, but
its pretty hard to make it cleaner.

Arny Krueger wrote:
"paul m" wrote in message
oups.com

Thanks for the responses. I should clarify - I am using a Tascam US
428, which can take both line level and XLR mike inputs. Therefore I
should be able to get around the internal amp issue, no problem.

So it sounds like the jack is the way to go, thanks eveyone.

What you're missing is the fact that in most inexpensive mixers, the line
input is attenuated to avoid problems with overloading, and then passed
though the mixer's mic preamp. You end up putting the music through two mic
preamps in a row. It's pretty easy to make the sound dirtier this way, but
its pretty hard to make it cleaner.

With the ART, it won't be any cleaner anyway. The coloration of the ART
is very exaggerated and cartoonish and is certainly going to dwarf whatever
coloration the console preamps have.

Not that it's generally a good policy to go through two preamp stages, but
it's better to think of the ART as an effects box rather than a preamp.
--scott
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"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."