On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 05:55:17PM +0800, Ng Oon-Ee wrote: > One of the engineers at M-Audio, in the thread I mentioned, said that > the M-Audio gives up to 40 dB of pre-amp gain, while the SM57 needs > about 50 dB to operate optimally. In other words, it works, but it'll be > soft, and soft enough that if you try to record quite plucking your > recording will be noisy once software-amplified. 40 dB is on the low side, and will produce low levels for some instruments, but more gain would not improve the S/N ratio at all (*). To get a good level you can as well use 'digital gain'. (*) except if the preamp is really very badly designed. Ciao, -- FA Io lo dico sempre: l'Italia è troppo stretta e lunga. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
