Dedicated a/d converter (getting rid of your decent interface) Nice preamps (bypassing your interface's preamps) Decent interface (get rid of cheap one) To me it feels kind of like there's this roadmap/funnel that the market makes you head down and it is this. check out golden age proejects and the black lion audio arteur. I think that if you learn to mix with what you have really well and get pretty satisfied you should try to get once nice preamp and see what it does for you. The thousands and thousands of dollars you spend after that is kind of like chasing after that extra 10% of quality. Interfaces are awesome and you can make amazing stuff with a cheap interface with cheap preamps. if the preamp is colorful it might add something to the signal after your preamp, otherways I'm inclined to say yes, throwing a preamp on after your tascam preamp is a bit pointless. The point is usually to bypass the built in preamps and use the standalone ones instead.

When would there be a need for a stand alone preamp?, I read lots of articles on new and much loved vintage preamps but when is there a need for them and more to the point how could they be used when you already have a preamp in your chain?Īs i say this is sure to be a dumb question Small to medium even beautiful top of the range neve desks have preamps built in, I don't have a desk, yet but I have a Tascam interface with 8 preamps.so with this in mind.

I guess this is a really dumb question.but.

Rnp pre amp