The other night I decided to comp my newly acquired Aerco MP-2 & Shure FP-24 at my local venue. The show was the New Mastersounds with Euforquestra opening. I ran MBHO 440's spread about 13" apart pointing at the house PA speakers, which are mounted hanging from the ceiling which is approximately 12 feet high. The mics were clamped to a beam in the center of the room about 9 feet high & 6 feet off the stage, it's a small intimate room that sounds great. The mics were run into a pair of splitter cables with the Aerco providing phantom power since I can't turn phantom off on the Aerco, the other set from the splitter was plugged into the FP-24 with phantom off. From both pre's I ran directly into my DR-680 as well as a board feed into the last two channels on the DR which is not included in the comp obviously. The Aerco is a fixed gain unit providing 20 dB, the FP-24 was set at around 10:00 with 18 dB attenuators on the mic inputs since it runs pretty hot, using the attenuators allows me to use more of the gain control on the FP. In the quiet parts there's a rumble in the right channel due to the AC duct, fortunately it isn't too noticeable while the bands are playing. There has been no eq in either source, I only bumped the gain in Audacity.
So transformer preamp vs transformer preamp. I've uploaded a track from each band, track 1 is Euforquestra, track 2 is New Mastersounds. I found the results interesting personally but I'm not judging anything since this was just one night in one particular venue. Feel free to discuss, hopefully this will create some discussion since some of us find preamps to be more important than others as far as imparting a certain flavor in our recordings. Enjoy!
https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B_AEIvcg2ktXflBsWjJCT2ZtdG1XRlZ0eTdaSlZOQ0RKcVIyNloybTFFZ3ZnVWg3azRGdDg&usp=sharing