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Old 23rd April 2009   #3
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Well it is in the sense I really feel amateurish asking this. I really should know the answer to this one. But hey, feel no shame in it, totally different things.

thaks for your words

Anyway...

I want to buy new gear for my personal home setup.

I have recorded with several tubed pre's. I do notice the naturally ocurring harmonics playing their thing... bring in variable impedance and wow, can you really make tone!

But I have little experience with tube mics, being the ones I used more expensive than both my previous cars... in extremy well treated rooms. and they were the no brainer setups, Neumanns on vox, c12's on a C3 etc.. So what I am getting at is;

Though I know the pre wont warm up in a "vintagy" sort of way, nor is that my goal, what would you suggest.

- Buy a decent condenser + decent tube mic (for vocals)
- Buy 1 or 2 very good condenser and feed it into the tubed channel strip and crank until just before distortion.

This will be mainly for an acoustic project I will be producing for a singer/songwriter, at home, where I have a pretty decent treatment.
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