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Originally Posted by 1979  The Jlm pres while I v'e never heard'em would probably "throttle" your mbox pres...but lets not forget the problem with mboxes are that the disgustingly designed mbox analog stages have no headroom. Even The Line amps start to introduce a muffled sound at unity gain. I feel like if you were to record good pres through an mbox is like drinking single malt through a dirty straw.
I think your best bet is at least to hit pt through the line stages of an 002 or 003 or better yet a modded 002 or 003.
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OTOH, get the baby animal now and realize that down the road you will never realize a huge improvement until you up your interface a notch.
I've spent a bit of time time hitting an mbox with api pre's and I call tell you is it still sounded like shit. I was much happier hitting radar with budget live console pre's.
Now that I have a bit of a budget I can kind actually get the most out my api pre's hitting a lynx aurora. I got my pre's before the aurora.. but I feel like they collected dust for a while.
The bottom line is that a JLM pre would probably be fun to build, educational, and at least be a worthy investment for years to come. |
I know what you mean, the mbox will never reflect the true difference of any higher quality piece of equipment in the chain before it. However I had been interested in doing a DIY project for a while, and I had originally intended just to make the DI, with aspirations of making the preamp shortly afterwards depending on how the DI build went. Joe suggested doing the two at once, which while he is selling his product, does make sense to me.
In a nutshell I wanted a DIY project, but figured if I could make something highly usuable it would be far better than a throw away DIY item.
