I personally need 2 inputs to handle line level (e.g. stereo drum machine),
and 1 to handle mic level input.
I don't need guitar.
Distortion would be OK, but not at the expense of the 3 inputs mentioned
above.
Dave Bradley
Principal Software Engineer
Engineering Animation, Inc.
daveb@... > Originally, I was going to do a 1U wide, triple preamp. This would have:
>
> 1 "guitar" level input
> 2 "synth/line" level inputs
>
> 3 volume pots
>
> The guitar input has high gain (like 150) and the line levels are lower
> (like 15). The
> point of both is to bring external levels up to 10V pk-pk.
>
> But several have asked for ∗DISTORTION!∗ Oh, the shame of my audiophile DC
> servo amps
> with cascode FET stages and 0.005% THD. Sob!
>
> So, what's the feeling of a dual preamp (2 clean channels) with a seperate
> patchable ∗DISTORTION∗
> unit?