Topic: Best use of ~$400 to upgrade my setup?

[adrianf74]

I went with the low-noise option on my newest purchase.   I wouldn't consider anything more than +40dB to be perfectly honest and maybe there will be a time when you'll need +4dB (say, on-stage).  That said you might want to bump up the first number a little but I wouldn't push the HI gain past +40dB (+40dB is A LOT of gain and introduces a lot of other nastiness)

[voltronic]

Hmm.  Well the defaults for the low-noise look like +4/+21/+42 so maybe I'm better off just going with that.  I'm curious why you say that more that 40dB gain causes problems - are you saying that's the case with the tinybox or in general?  I used to regularly record with up to +50dB on soundboard pres in the building I used to work in, because what I was recording just needed that much gain.  I had no adverse effects.

[voltronic]

Thanks for that very detailed reply, Jon.  I think I understood most of what you said.  I'll continue the discussion over email for my order...