Ok, so here are two (badly played) samples of with the preamp and without.
Equipment used:
– A rubbish Stagg bass (P-bass pickup)
– Behringer DI
– EHX Mic Pre
– EMU 1616m Soundcard (the mic preamp in this was used to compare)
– Cubase Essentials 5
To my ears the tube preamp sounds clearer and more exciting but has quite a lot of noise on it unfortunately (I’ve had this problem with this pre for a while – any ideas as to why it is noisy?). The drive is quite nice sounding, I haven’t recorded that, but you can here the subtle saturation on the bass high notes. I had to watch the gain as it was quite sensitive.
Hope that helps!
Dan
Samples:
With Tube preamp:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2063075/Bass – Tube.wav
With Solid state preamp:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2063075/Bass – SS.wav
