Using a Pre to beef up a drum machine.

Posted: Thu May 06, 2004 7:27 am

I use 2 drum machines and would like to know if running them through a decent pre, would that yield lustful or some sort of sonic advantage? I use a Akai MPC4000 which I think can go either way as far as using a pre because it has some alright pre's itself. On the other hand, my Roland R8 could defenitely go for a pre because it is'nt as hot as the Akai. Any thoughts?

Posted: Thu May 06, 2004 9:25 am

I've heard plenty about people running their keyboards through Neve type pres for fatness, etc. I don't do this kind of thing, so i'll leave it to the experts to elaborate.

Posted: Thu May 06, 2004 12:44 pm

I often use an Alseis drum machine for "scratch" tracks and sometimes I will re trigger a snare or kick sample from an Alesis D4. I often use either the GR MP2NV or my Sebatro vmp 4000 on these box's to fatten up the sound a bit.

Posted: Thu May 06, 2004 7:05 pm

I do it all the time with keys, synths, drum machines, samplers into colored or tube mic pre's, eq's as well as compressors to get unique and specific tones. Sometimes it sounds better, sometimes it don't...

Posted: Tue May 11, 2004 12:03 am

All depends on the sound you're after really, I often put keyboards and bass through a Marshall JMP-1 (valve pre-amp) for a little colouration. I use this more for bass than I do for guitar these days.

Experiment with everything. I honestly don't believe there are any real DO's and DON'T's when trying to capture a particular sound. Confused

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