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Gear / Technical Help => Battery Boxes, Preamps, Mixers, ADCs, and Processors => Topic started by: willyjbrown on February 15, 2007, 04:06:38 PM
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Right now I've got AT831's > SP battery box > iRiver H120, but I'm going to be upgrading to DPA4061's pretty soon. My only question is how much quality would I REALLY be losing if I rigged the DPA's with a battery box as opposed to the MMA6000? Only reason I'm thinking about doing that is so I could save a little money honestly. Thanks in advance for your advice. For the record, I love this place :D
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Right now I've got AT831's > SP battery box > iRiver H120, but I'm going to be upgrading to DPA4061's pretty soon. My only question is how much quality would I REALLY be losing if I rigged the DPA's with a battery box as opposed to the MMA6000? Only reason I'm thinking about doing that is so I could save a little money honestly. Thanks in advance for your advice. For the record, I love this place :D
It depends on what you want to record the MMA6000 gives you gain so you don't have to use the Iriver as much to get gain you will end up with quieter recordings. Now if all you record is very loud shows you could probably get away with a battery box.
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All I record are loud concerts at arenas, amphitheaters, and theaters, and local/smaller bands at bars and clubs. I guess that's as soft as it gets for me.
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All I record are loud concerts at arenas, amphitheaters, and theaters, and local/smaller bands at bars and clubs. I guess that's as soft as it gets for me.
Well I would get your mics terminated to 3.5 mm jack then you can use an off the shelf battery box and you could in the future get a preamp.. But with the microdots the connectors are so expensive that no body outside of DPA makes a preamp I made one preamp for a guy in Europe with microdots. But I had a real pain getting the connectors..
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If you're recording with iRiver/NJB3 you need a preamp to get good sound quality. The levels are just not good enough.
If you've got Minidisc or Edirol R01/R09 there is a half decent preamp there, but only for fairly loud music. For acoustic stuff you should add a pre.
Best solution is probably to put a miniplug on the DPAs and get Church's preamp. It has a battery box built in. One piece of gear, and it will give you the gain you need.
I would be scared to cut off the minidots though. Not because I want them, just because they are so crazy expensive!
Richard