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[FelixTheCat]

"Really Nice Pre"  or  "PreSonus Mp20"  or "OctoPre" ?????????

Which is better ?????????????????

Please Help Me.......


Thank........

[Jim Dugger]

I'm not at all a fan of the OctoPre.  A bit "crunchy".  In the same vein, I had a DigiMax once and was quite unhappy.

In the under $400 category, I've used the Eureka, and the pre in that box is totally useable.  Mind you, it's not stellar, but I got several great sounds out of it.

Any way I can talk you into not spending your money on this and waiting until you can afford something you won't turn around and sell in a couple of years?

[Duardo]

What are you going to be using the preamp for?  You're comparing two preamps that run rougly $500 for a pair to one that's about twice that for four times as many channels...

I'm not sure if I'd agree with the "wait until you can afford something better" mindset...I guess it depends on how long it would take.  Certainly having something decent that you can use in the meantime is worth something, and hopefully it'd at least be worth the difference in what you pay for it and what you'd sell it for if you're talking about a year or two...

[TotalSonic]

To me in the $500 range the best pre I've heard is the Grace Design Model 101.  Incredibly clean and transparent with plenty of gain.  Of course it's one channel compared to those boxes 2 or 8.  For a transparent 8 channel box I really love the Millenia Media HV3D - but that will be a bit more chunk a change than these other options you have listed.

Best regards,
Steve Berson

[steve@mojopie]

I've used most every preamp in the $500 range and my suggestions are:

FMR RNP
Grace 101
Presonus Eureka
Safe Sound P1

My fave of the bunch is the FMR RNP. It's a great acoustic guitar mic pre.

Steven Langer
www.mojopie.com

[Johnny B]

Roger Nichols said he liked a little pre from Rane, I think it was the M3 or MB3 something like that. He said it compared favorably with more expensive ones. I never tried it so I dunno, but the price seems right...about 200 bucks. You may want to check it out.

Hope this helps.

[i dig music]

"Roger Nichols said he liked a little pre from Rane, I think it was the M3 or MB3 something like that. He said it compared favorably with more expensive ones. I never tried it so I dunno, but the price seems right...about 200 bucks. You may want to check it out."

rane ms 1b

you can get this pre for about $100.00 or so. i bought 2 based on  Roger Nichols reference to it.

it was quite the surprise.

an eye opener.

transformer-less, very clean, low noise and uncolored..

this pre is no joke, and it cost nothing to find out for yourself.

[Johnny B]

Yeah, that's it, the MS1B. God, I hate numbers for names of products, I can never get them to stay in my small-brained head.

Only 100 bucks, 200 for 2.
Sounds like a deal to me.

I do want to say that a person can never
have too many pres or mics. I ran into a man who has 225 mics, all standed and ready to go. Of course he's been in the business for 40 years in New York's Broadway/Theatre District. All different brands and price ranges. The right mic for the job.  

Get lots of them, get cheap, moderate, and expensive ones.
The more options you have, the less everthing will sound the same and have a boring lifeless quality to it. That's why you need different combinations of gear and to keep changing things.

So eventually, when you can afford it, get some Manley and GML's pres too. And when you run out of money, get more, because you will end up spending it on gear until the day you die. It's a blackhole...a bottomless money pit...for sure.  LOL

But that little Rane pre...that's a good deal.

Hope this helps.

 

[steve@mojopie]

Rane MS 1b review

[Dr.Grace]

i dig music wrote on Wed, 23 June 2004 21:05

rane ms 1b you can get this pre for about $100.00 or so. i bought 2 based on  Roger Nichols reference to it.

Where can you get it for $100?

Don

[i dig music]

http://www.sweetwater.com/store/category.php?c=17&cp=2&a mp;m=Rane

call sam rodgers 312-867-0250

hey may be able do better then the $150.

[dejacky]

How does this Rane ms 1b compare to the M-Audio DMP3?  I'm really looking for a preamp in this price range that can handle very hot signals without distorting/overloading/"lacking headroom."  My SMPro Audio PR8 only has 40dB of gain, and signals from my vocal and drum mics EASILY overload the preamp since it can't handle even semi-loud sources...  I've heard users have similar problem w/ the Sytek mP4 series 4-channel preamps (signal is distorting in the preamp even before the "overload" led is activated) even though the sytek has more headroom than the crappy SmPro Audio Pr8.