Showing posts with label Two transistor low noise mic amp. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Two transistor low noise mic amp. Show all posts

Sunday, September 28, 2008

Low noise mic preamp

After purchasing a couple of Berhinger studio mics and valve preamps and doing some recordings of live choirs etc. I decided I wanted something more portable. I bought a Sony ECM-MS957 but required a portable preamp. This is the ESP low noise two transistor preamp. Though it is quite large it has a 12V battery supply and uses large 10uf polypropylene caps throughout. All silver wire and quality components were used. Two attenuators allow separate channel level control. I use a Cowon Audio6 mp3 player with a line input connection for recording direct to digital at 128kps. The whole mini-recording desk runs on batteries and even after four hours of recording barely effected battery level.