[LAU] hardware: recording voice and acc. guitar

[Joshua Boyd]

On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 07:57:54PM +0200, Giuseppe Zompatori wrote:
> 2008/5/29 schoappied <schoappied at gmail.com>:
> >
> > thanks, I like your drawing skills ;)
> >
> > I've a little amp for my guitar, also with a phone input option... can I
> > use the art tube mp also for that one, guitar (input) and phone? The
> > preamp will make the sound maybe better, or doesn't make that sense?
> >
> > And my guitar amp has not an master channel... can I use the art tube
> > mp, to use for example rakkarack with my amp?
> 
> Bear in mind that ART preamps usually run their single tube "voltage
> starved" killing headroom/freq response. I haven't looked at the specs
> but I bet that they also choose the wrong tube if they did go for
> 12AX7s since 12AU7s sound much better at lower plate voltages.
> You can ask any tube guru you know about that, I am sure he'll confirm
> what I am saying.
> I wasn't aware of those issues until I started building tube amps
> myself and experimenting with different supply voltages.
> I'd rather buy an all solid state device with a low supply voltage, it
> would sound way better.

If you are going to say that (and I'm not trying to argue with you about
the truth of what you say), it would be nice if you would post
suggestions for a good affordable solid state preamp.  I believe that
schoappied is looking for something in the sub 100 eur price range.