On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 08:20:55PM +0400, Andrew Gaydenko wrote: > The aim is to record a vocal + an acoustic guitar in home studio. As for mics themselfs, > a decision is done (it will be russian Oktava MK-219). Now, mic preamp must be selected. > There are two "main streams" - tube preamps (ART TPS II, Nady TMP-2 and such in this > price category). But there are "not-tube" variants also. The thing is, I don't know what > to prefer. Thinking logically, it is worth to avoid any "tube excitations" because > (I suggest) all "tube warmings" or such may be added, if needed, during a mastering. If a tube preamp sounds better than a solid state one that means that the solid- state one was badly designed. Nothing more, and all the rest is marketing hype. -- FA Follie! Follie! Delirio vano è questo ! _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/linux-audio-user
