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Originally Posted by sphelan
Okay, this is all new so please bear with me 
So tell me something regarding having various preamps or a rack of preamps...if I wanted to record 3 or 4 mics at the same time, and I only have at most a couple of single or two channel preamps, can these be connected together to allow 4 mic recording at the same time? Or does one HAVE to have a four channel preamp to do that? |
Yep. Each one can be run independently. A 4-ch preamp is only different in that it has 4 channels - each one still has a seperate line out of the back, so each one will still need a discrete input into your DAW. A 4-ch isn't downmixing to one output, if that's what you might be thinking. For that you would need a mixer. Otherwise your DAW will be perfectly happy either way - with 4 different mic amps connected to the line inputs of your interface (assuming you've got that many available!) or with one four-channel box sending four wires to the same inputs. Does that make any sense?