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Old 06-01-2012, 03:43 PM
Fichtezc Fichtezc is offline
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Default Preamp Worth It?

Hey all,

I have a sort of hypothetical question here. I say it's hypothetic simply because I'm pretty happy with my setup and don't really have the money for what I'm talking about. But we all love to dream on here don't we? Anyway, I primarily use a presonus firestudio for my recordings. I'm quite pleased with the quality, I'm sure the only limitations right now are from my mics and my own ability.

That being said, if I wanted higher quality preamps would this do me any good? Just for the sake of argument, lets say I got my hand on the finest preamp available. Would running this into my firestudio (through the inputs in the back, not the pres) simply to use it as an A/D converted make the quality of the pre null? Assuming I had the mics (which I have access to), the room (which I have access to), and the pres, how much would the presonus limit my quality?
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