Mic preamp on turntables.

[XxMedisinxX]

does anybody use a mic preamp or some other sort of enhancer to add color to their samples?

i have an mpc 2500 and some little ART phono preamp but im trying to figure out how to reduce all the excessive hissing and whatnot.

i dont use software, just mpc and turntable.

 

[bandcoach]

by a better phono preamp end of story: a microphone preamp won't fix the problem you are getting and may make it worse

part of your problem maybe the type of phono preamp you are using there are three types
1) for magnetic cartridges
2) for ceramic cartridges
3) for moving coil cartridges (yes 1 and 3 are similar but they are also sufficiently different that they require different amplification curves)

all three also have a need for the RIAA playback equalisation curve to be applied (boosts lows and drops highs)

know what your turntable uses and buy accordingly