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Re: Preamp : need advice

Subject: Re: Preamp : need advice
From: "Dan Dugan" dandugan_1999
Date: Mon Feb 18, 2008 3:49 pm ((PST))
>I'd like to by a preamp to insert between my Marantz PMD-620 and an
>AudioTechnica AT-822.
>This would be mainly to record quiet ambiences, natural sounds.

The 822 is a good beginner's mic, but its self-noise is high enough 
(24dB) that I don't know if a quieter preamp will give you any 
improvement.

A preamp could give you a higher level signal, for sure, but I 
suspect it would have mic hiss at the same level if you just raised 
the file's level in your workstation.

Anyone with experience with the PMD-620?

-Dan Dugan




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