You can polish your mixers by replacing the OpAmps in them. That is, given the sliders are worth it

OpAmps are the little chips that amp the signal, often its cheap TL084 or something. You can hook in quite expensive replacements with golden pins ggg

But really, one can replace almost every electronic part in a mixer with a better one. Most mixers are made of standard asian parts, to say it mean.

If you really have a good stereo amp, use its phono input and connect its TAPE MON out the the mac. But its also gonna dd too much noise I could figure.

// Whats the single most important/expensive thing in music equipment? pre amps.

ah yes. good point. Hadn’t given that a thought although I had been told it could be done a few years back… I wonder though… is it worth it with this mixer?

its american DJ brand. pretty low end DJ gear; not the cheapest but noisy enough not to want to use it in a recording.

I had to really crank the input gain on the 828 which added its own noise. Makes me wonder how good the 828 pre’s are.

I really need to get a proper mixer anyway. something like one of the smaller 8 ins Behringers perhaps. Will they take phono level input though?

no he’s from switzerland not NYC

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