Summary of Contents for Daking Audio Mic Pre One
- Page 1 Daking Audio Daking Audio Mic Pre One Manual VERSION 1.0 Hendrik David Gideonse XIX 1/18/2010 ...
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Page 2: Table Of Contents
Signal Flow: Patching Into and Out of Your Mic Pre IV........10 1.6.1 Microphone to Mic Pre One to Audio Interface or Mixer ......10 1.6.2 Via a Patch Bay ................... 10 ... -
Page 3: Daking Audio Mic Pre One
1 Daking Audio Mic Pre One About Daking Audio Congratulations! You’ve purchased a Mic Pre One, a very high end piece of gear! The Mic Pre One uses all discrete transistor Class A circuits, THAT Corporation differential amps and printed circuit board mounted switches. -
Page 4: Basic Set Up
(XLR Female to a ¼” TRS Male) cable. The Power Supply Your Mic Pre One ships with an external 48V DC power supply. External power supplies offer many advantages over internal power supplies like reducing hum from 50 or 60 cycle power sources and improving the safety of the equipment you are using. -
Page 5: In General: Xlr Connectors And ¼" Trs Connectors
1.4.1 In General: XLR Connectors and ¼” TRS Connectors XLR connectors are more expensive, more reliable and offer a stronger connection than ¼” TRS connectors. They also have the option of a locking latch that helps to keep the cable from being pulled out accidentally. -
Page 6: Microphone Input (Xlr Or ¼" Trs)
1.4.2 Microphone Input (XLR or ¼” TRS) The microphone input accepts a mic-level signal. Mic level signals are generally very low in voltage around a couple of millivolts or 1000 of a volt. The job of the mic preamp is to increase the mic-level signal by up to 75 dB to be line level, which is between 1 and 2 volts. -
Page 7: Led Vu And Peak Meter
1.5.1 LED VU and Peak Meter The VU Meter for the Mic Pre One is a true VU Meter with 300ms averaging ballistics. The main difference between this meter and a mechanical VU meter is that this meter extends to +22dB, while a mechanical meter only goes up to +3dB. -
Page 8: The Gain Knob
monitors that are capable of producing the bottom octave (20Hz – 40 Hz). In home studios that don’t have a perfect monitoring solution, the engineer can’t hear that this low rumble is on the tracks. Low frequency problems can come from traffic or subway noise hundreds of feet away. A concrete or wood-joisted floor is essentially an enormous drum head and every footstep creates low frequency energy which can easily travel into microphones. -
Page 9: ¼" Instrument Input Jack
If you are still showing peaking on the VU meter, but the gain switch is turned down all the way, engage the Pad button to reduce gain by 20dB. This will not affect the timbre of the audio, just the level. 1.5.4 ¼”... -
Page 10: Ø Phase Button
(1) Female XLR (or Male ¼” TRS) to Male ¼” TRS Balanced Cable Patch from the microphone to the mic input on the Mic Pre One using the female XLR to male XLR microphone cable. Patch out of one of the line outputs to a line input on your audio interface or console using either a female XLR to ¼”... - Page 11 You do not want to normal the inputs and outputs from the compressor to each other. This will create a feedback loop. Converting a half-normal module to a non-normaled module is sometimes as simple as rotating the module in the patch bay. See the manual for your patch bay. Cables Needed: XLR Male to ¼”...
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Page 12: Specifications
1.7 Specifications Transformer balanced input THAT Corporation differential amp output All discrete transistor circuitry Class "A" amplifiers Continuously Variable Gain Control for quick, accurate recall 20 Segment vu Meter (-20 to +25) +23dB Peak indicator All relay switching w/gold bi-furcated contacts Switched +48 Volt Phantom power 20dB pad on mic input Stainless steel construction for noise immunity...