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chrisyeager · Joined: 30 Dec 2011 Posts: 1 Location: portland

if im hooking up a ESX-1 to a pa should i invest in a sick pre amp or will it not even matter?
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do i need a pe amp when im hooking up the esx-1 to a pa or is it sick on its own?

Aciphecs · Posted: Fri Dec 30, 2011 10:40 am Post subject:

No preamp needed.
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X-Trade · Posted: Fri Dec 30, 2011 6:48 pm Post subject:

A preamp is unnecessary for most electronic digital instruments. The tubes also provide a bit of the warmth you may be looking for there, when set to low levels.

What might be worth investing in though is a decent outboard stereo master compressor. I'm using an ART tube VLA at the moment and it helps to squash the sound up a bit in a nice way. Previously I was using it to flatten out the levels of guitar and bass signals.
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Kvetch · Joined: 10 Mar 2011 Posts: 19 Location: Glasgow, Scotland

Yeh Id agree on the compressor. I use an analogue compressor in my rack setup both in the studio and live, its analogue but not tube or valve based as I use nice russian valves on my electribes anyway.

The compressor I use is the Samson S-com Plus
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