[audiothings]

greetings.

don't think i've ever posted in this forum before... i know absolutely nothing about electronics.

i have recently started using ribbons and dynamics and my pair of extremely low output avensons a lot... and i hope to solve two problems with a device i have in mind...

1. i need about 15-20 dB more, of clean gain... my current pres, rme quadmics, get distractingly noisy when driven above 50 dB or so.... and when recording soft sources with low output mics, 50 dB is not enough. (i found the MH ULN-2 to be much quieter under similar circumstances, but i don't own one).

2. i want to have a fader box in front of me... i'd love to ride the gain during tracking, and using small rotary pots for the purpose is far less than intuitive.

putting the above together, i want a fader box (maybe 4 channels) that will allow me to ride the gain and add upto 15 dB of extra gain, when required.

if this is all i want to do, how complicated will it turn out to be? what are the potential pitfalls? what i can already guess is that i'll need a line level opamp (not thinking of tubes right now) which will give me the requisite gain, and a fader that will trim the resultant output. what more do i need to know... where should i start?

here in india, i can get a very competent tech guy to put something together for me, but i'd like a few pointers to start my research, for while the tech guys here will do a clean job, the concept and possibly the bulk of the schematic will have to come from somewhere else.


thanks,

audiothings.