« Reply #1 on: October 06, 2005, 10:47:34 PM »
I noticed that Shure has pretty extensive present and past lines of portable preamps (usually called mixers) in addition to the FP24 made by Sound Devices that run on batteries. Is there any intelligence on whether any of their other units are good for taping? I guess I'm mostly wondering about sound quality, since I can see the features, size, etc. for myself.
You've probably been seeing a lot of these going onsale at Ebay, right? I saw stuff at "avforsale". Like four and six channel mixers, with and without level meters. My take on these (and from perusing the Shure docs) is that they are designed for classic commercial PA systems, and not for recording. They often only supply 12 or 24V phantom too. I'm open to ideas though. These go for *real* cheap, especially in batch sales.
Richard
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