26 Nov
2009
26 Nov
'09
7:05 a.m.
On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 05:55:17PM +0800, Ng Oon-Ee wrote:
One of the engineers at M-Audio, in the thread I
mentioned, said that
the M-Audio gives up to 40 dB of pre-amp gain, while the SM57 needs
about 50 dB to operate optimally. In other words, it works, but it'll be
soft, and soft enough that if you try to record quite plucking your
recording will be noisy once software-amplified.
40 dB is on the low side, and will produce low levels for some
instruments, but more gain would not improve the S/N ratio at
all (*). To get a good level you can as well use 'digital gain'.
(*) except if the preamp is really very badly designed.
Ciao,
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FA
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