yo anybody get down with any good mic pre's? ive got an mbox2 mini but ehh shyts okay. im looking to spend 3 to 600 if its dope. ive got cats that rhyme and sing so thats y im look to speend so much maybe. idk let me know ppl!

Like
http://www.fmraudio.com/RNP8380.htm

yo is this shyt legit! these cats give it to u raw when it comes to good and bad which is dope! i may have to do some more research on these cats but unless i missed the punchline, im sold

I don't have the pre, but I have the RNC, and it is great for the price.
Pretty much no one disses their boxes- unless you are a super jaded zillionaire. The pre has excellent reviews.

I personally have this pre:
http://www.dbxpro.com/386/386.php

It is in that range and it has the added bonus of a SPDIF out- had the thing for almost 9 years!- Still going strong- got the RNC inserted into it- low budget lovely!

the FMR pre is not that great

for 300 you can get a Groove Tubes Brick and for another 250 you could get a DBX 160x for compression and that would give you a good start...

I heard the True P Solo is a good option too, if you want a good strong clean sound

yo D, i just read about that true solo joint, seems like the real deal for project studios. HxC 9 year IS money well spent thanks for the hook up man. i was feelin kinda lost since vocal recordings are fairly new to me

I you have a good lyricist they can spit through a Walmart door buzzer assembly & it'll be doper than a herb through a Neve- but you all know that!

so true, we used to call it skills

haha

What mics you got? And nothing will sound good through the MBox 2, what a pile of shit!

a temp one i got from my girls dad, its an MXL v67 i think. it costs about 90 when he bought it a few years back but im lookn for a replacement after i cop a mic pre so that i can get my ears up on the difference.

hXc wrote:
I you have a good lyricist they can spit through a Walmart door buzzer assembly & it'll be doper than a herb through a Neve- but you all know that!


so true, we used to call it skills

haha


so many wack mcs are gettin shine nowadays, not sayin this cat is skillful or wack but i read ina scratch magazine the juelz santanna drop 30k on plugins his cpu and somethin else but how wack is that type of move? old timers will tell u u can make a whole album from a 4 track not 40k of em.

my point is gear lust is one thing but buyin allotta top notch shyt b4 u have any skill is another. id kill for a cat like BLUEPRINT or AESOP ROCK or fukin PASE ROCK to have a top ten album! they do it with skill the same stuff we use. shyt i remember the RZA talkin bout how all of the CLans vocal comps when dbx 160s tailored to eat cat. thefirst malib Quais album was done for a couple hundred. but these wack dude got full blown SSL consouls , 20k in rack mounts and 1 gold album!?? wtf is goin on?

i've heard good things about the really nice preamp, but i chose to get the old-school mbox with the focusrite preamps. bought it for like 100 bucks. More VINYL!!

I agree...

the pre's on the Mbox 2 ain't nothing to write home about...

There is alot of good mic pres, please don't get me wrong my buddy has the mBox 2 adn those focusrite pres are decent granted he has a NeumannU87 and AKG c414 (just like mine) and those mics help improve the sound quailty. But the mic pre is the first in the signal chain so it should be excellent.. someone mention the DBX 386 those silver series mic pres are GREAT! I've gotten great results off of those pres.. Are you looking for a tube pre?

These are my top pick for the range your seeking..

http://pro-audio.musiciansfriend.com/pr ... sku=183610 (excellent sounding, I have this one myself for keys)

For that dirty warmth sound (EPMD strictly Business)
http://pro-audio.musiciansfriend.com/pr ... sku=180173

For that straight clean sound you can't go wrong with Grace.. I have this for my female R&B artists
http://pro-audio.musiciansfriend.com/pr ... sku=181053