Pre Amp Can I use the JBL On Air Control 2.4G wireless speaker system without pre-amp RCA outputs?
I recently purchased the JBL On Air Control 2.4G wireless speaker system without realizing my receiver (Sony) did not have preamp RCA outputs. Is there anyway I can buy a seperate preamp system to connect to my receiver that will then allow this to work? Thanks in advance for any help.
Unfortunately there is not.....without preamp outputs you have NO way to get the signal from your Sony receiver to the next receiver WITH preamp outputs and if you did you would have volume control problems and ground loop problems galore! If i were you and you really wanted to use these speakers you purchased I would upgrade my AVR with one that has the preamp outputs.
can you connect an external pre-amp out from your amp to a PA system?
i have a fender twin reverb and it has an "external pre-amp out"
can i plus that into a PA system? will it damage the PA or amp?
or will it overpower the PA?
It should work fine - that is basically a line out from the amp. Any line input on your PA system mixer will work with that.
Interface Preamp Can I record a condenser mic with this interface?
I have a cheap little interface that I have been using to record guitar, and it works pretty well, but I am wondering now if I bought a condenser (AT2020) and got an XLR to 1/4" cable, would that work just the same as plugging into a regular preamp?
I will be getting the preamps and settings digitally on POD Farm which has a ton of built in preamps and stuff. Also, would the mic need phantom power to record like this?
Condenser microphones most definitely need phantom power.
But there are plenty of dynamic or super cardioid microphones out there that will out-perform this condenser. People have this notion that condender microphones are better, but in reality, they are only better if you buy a good one. So unless you are willing to spend $500 on a microphone, I would suggest staying away from a condenser mic.
I would also like to point out that if you are doing home recording, condenser microphones can be a pain in the butt. They pick up every little sound. I have even heard home recording where cars driving by outside can be heard in the recording because some jack-hole insisted on using a condenser microphone. Of course you will probably not have this problem if you are recording a guitar amp, but if you ever wanted to record other things with it you would have this issue.
Here is a much better microphone for recording guitar amps.
I have an 8-channel preamp which i would use to plug in 7 drum mics and leave one open for a rough guitar track. I need a preamp to plug (maybe 2 over heads) into one of the XLR inputs on the *channel fader so i can get an extra XLR unit open. The only problem is is that i want to be able to pan each over head to either the right or left respectively. Which leads me to would i be able to do this after it was in the interface or before the interface on the additional preamp as well? And how bad would an additional preamp distort the signal?
Thank you!!!
You don't need a preamp for recording, you need a mixer board (which I'm assuming is what you're referring to.) More expensive mixers allow fading and panning on individual channels, while others don't have this function at all.