I am a bit of a noob, and this might be a silly question, but:
I have a Marantz PMD661. I am planning to do some ambient recording, and some super close in high gain recording.
My question is: I am looking at the Sound Devices Mix-Pre, and I know a lot of people use the R09HR with it via the clean line-in as a 'bit bucket'. With the PMD661, would/could I go XLR to XLR from the SD Mix-Pre into the PMD661, and if so, would their be any (tiny?) upside to that as opposed to the 1/8 inch Line in on the R09HR? Would that bypass the PMD661's pre so as to utilize the Mix-Pre's quiet pre? Or how about the line in on the PMD661, is that basically the same as the R09HR? I already have the PMD661, recently sold my R09HR but I will need to be doing this type of quiet recording for a while now, and if there is no real upside at all and everything is equal when using the PMD661, as opposed to using a R09HR as a 'bit bucket', then I would likely keep the PMD661 unless there is a DOWNside with the PMD661 compared to using the R09HR. Again, I am doing super high gain recording, and outdoors ambient recording.
Thanks, and again, sorry if some of this is 'Duh!' type stuff!