| I'm just going to stop with the sample rate bullshit. I'm sorry, it struck a nerve with me when Nick posted the same stuff everyone hears everywhere as if I didn't know a damned thing about recording... if that's how you want to use your resources, fine, but if your stuff sounds godly at 88.2 and amateur at 44.1 you probably have some bigger problem with your chain than the sample rate (probably those same tone-gremlins that make solid state amps sound bad just because they don't have tubes)... anyway, nevermind.
And the sample rate thing was just joking around, somehow I'm coming across as hostile when I have no intentions of doing so... gotta figure that fucker out.
Anyway, as for the handbuilt preamp... I've been tinkering with electronics for about as long as anyone has trusted me with a breadboard, and when I got seriously into audio engineering a few years back I started looking into preamps. I've studied and modded guitar pedals as long as I've been playing guitar, so I just started adapting some things from there and reading stuff out of electrical engineering books. I have had far too many of them, and wound up giving away or selling almost all of them, but if you want some schematics I can send them over your way. I intend to start building and selling them off at some point, but I haven't had the time yet... already have a bit of a waiting list at Sneap's place, I'm working on it.
The preamp is going to be very important... but I personally prefer to have the preamp do as little as possible to the sound. The way I see it, if I want to change the way something sounds I can do it in the DAW with much more control and no risk of having it tracked wrong in the first place, so that's what I look for in designs.
Jeff |