Well, for me, I just don't find this to be that true. Differences in microphone were always much more dramatic than differences in preamps. Don't get me wrong, you do need more oomph and it needs to be quiet oomph for the SM7B, or even a modified SM57, or a ribbon mic, but I don't think that preamps are going to wake up the budget condensers that we're talking about. Of course I'm assuming that your interface has at least decent preamps with sufficient gain. Yes, they will be clean, so if you're looking for color a different preamp might give you that, but, assuming that you have enough gain, there are other ways to get preamp color.kgdrum wrote:IMO preamps in most i/o's are not really "up to snuff".......
See if you can borrow or rent a good preamp for a day.
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