[Davey]

Hi all;

I have a full band coming in this coming weekend and I have never had to
record more than 2 channels at one time. I have borrowed some additional
equipment to accomodate the band coming in. Here's the preamps I have at my
disposal:

FMR RNP
M-Audio DMP3
Focusrite TwinTrak Pro
Presonus Firebox (there's 2 pre's on board I can use as standalone)
Tascam FW-1804 (4 preamps built in, I am going to use this as the 10 channel
interface to Firewire)
ART DPSII
Behringer Ultragain Pro 8 Digital
Behringer Eirorack MX3242X mixing console

I am trying to decide what priority to assign each preamp in terms of
quality for DI'ing and Mic preamps. We are aiming to capture live floor
takes but in the end we will be doing seperate takes for vocals and DI'ing
guitars mostly (unless someone is dead set on using their amp and a mic for
seperate takes). I have been using the FMR RNP for sometime and love it for
vocals with a SM58, RE-20, and C4000B. I am not too familiar with the
others. Can anyone comment or put these in a quality order? Connecting
everything to the MX3242X would be easy but I am not too happy with the pre
amp quality.

Thanks in advance;
Davey

[Peter Larsen[_2_]]

Davey wrote:

I am trying to decide what priority to assign each preamp in terms of
quality for DI'ing and Mic preamps.

Take a microphone and a pair of headphones and sort them. Best goes on vox,
next best of acoustic guitar or similar, then there's drumkit overhead,
piano if a real one, kick drum and elecric instruments amps.

In some context it may matter to keep all preamps identical for imaging and
perspective integrity, but I don't guess that to apply in this.

Davey


Kind regards

Peter Larsen