Advantage of Using a Preamp?

[Mass. Wine Guy]

Would using a preamp and external mike, such as the Church STC-9000, clean up and strengthen the signal of my Edirol R-09? Using the built-in microphones, there is a clearly audible hiss, even at the highest quality recording settings.

[OOK]

Yes.

[Mass. Wine Guy]

Hey, thanks. Obviously, I'm new to this.

How exactly does the R-09 hook up to the preamp?

[dmonkey]

External mic attaches to preamp which attaches to R-09 via 1/8" miniplug into line-in jack. I have a Church 9100 pre and it works great with the R09 -- highly recommended.

[Mass. Wine Guy]

Thank you very much.

[bluntforcetrauma]

Thank you very much.

Here is Mics( the end of the mics are the big XLR inputs going into the pre amp) plugged in to the Sonosax pre amp ( the big black thing) then a 3.5mm right angle plug from the pre amp to the edirol r-09 line input.

[Belexes]

I have a Church 9100 pre and it works great with the R09 -- highly recommended.

Seconded. Nothing but great results with the 9100 and R-09.

[SpareRibs]

Good stuff. I plan on getting the Church 9100 and the Edirol this Christmas. Sounds like a winner. Thanks for the advise.

[digifish_music]

Thank you very much.

Here is Mics( the end of the mics are the big XLR inputs going into the pre amp) plugged in to the Sonosax pre amp ( the big black thing) then a 3.5mm right angle plug from the pre amp to the edirol r-09 line input.

...and here is an R09 with a Sound Devices MixPre (and a possum)...



MixPres are particularly good when you need to use high preamp-gain levels without hiss (field recording for example).

digifish

[Dede2002]

Good stuff. I plan on getting the Church 9100 and the Edirol this Christmas. Sounds like a winner. Thanks for the advise.

Go for it. It's a  killer combination.
You mean the new R09HR, right? It's a tremendous machine.