Hi, > 1) How much gain is needed by the Shure SM57 for comfortable recording > with a low noise floor? > 2) Whether the M-Audio Fast Track Pro, Tascam US-144, Alesis IO|2 or > Edirol UA-4FX are able to provide pre-amping with that much gain? > I'm not sure I understand correctly the question... As for 'noise floor' much for example depends on the input signal, environment etc. or are you talking about the intrinsic 'noisiness' of pre-amps on the cited devices?. Maybe if you explain the situation/setup one could have a clearer picture. Anyway, because the SM57 is a dynamic microphone you should be ok with virtually any decent mic preamp: at an extreme limit you could probably even plug it into your computer's "mic in" (but then of course might as well use a 10$ skype microphone or something :) ). Lorenzo. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
