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<blockquote data-quote="Scott Bolt" data-source="post: 141073" data-attributes="member: 3950">Re: Presonus RM32AI Mic PresGood point.&nbsp; The &quot;sound&quot; of the non AI may or may not have been due to the design of the preamps.I will say this.&nbsp; The SL (NON AI) reacted horribly to having the gain stage pushed.&nbsp; Get even a slight tickle into the red and you would swear you had blown your speakers with a lightning strike <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />&nbsp; Put another way, they weren&#039;t very forgiving.&nbsp; Run them pretty cool and you don&#039;t have this problem.The truth of the matter is that preamps today are pretty good across the board.&nbsp; IC&#039;s exist that are quite good at giving you an exact signal copy of the input on the output, just at a higher level.There ARE preamps that are non-linear in a ear-pleasing way.&nbsp; These preamps tend to be praised since they are easier to get good sound out of.The MIDAS preamps in specific are frequently referred to as &quot;warm&quot;.&nbsp; They also appear to have some compression built in as you get close to the limit lights.&nbsp; People tend to push them and get a nice sound from doing it.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Scott Bolt, post: 141073, member: 3950"] Re: Presonus RM32AI Mic Pres Good point. The "sound" of the non AI may or may not have been due to the design of the preamps. I will say this. The SL (NON AI) reacted horribly to having the gain stage pushed. Get even a slight tickle into the red and you would swear you had blown your speakers with a lightning strike ;) Put another way, they weren't very forgiving. Run them pretty cool and you don't have this problem. The truth of the matter is that preamps today are pretty good across the board. IC's exist that are quite good at giving you an exact signal copy of the input on the output, just at a higher level. There ARE preamps that are non-linear in a ear-pleasing way. These preamps tend to be praised since they are easier to get good sound out of. The MIDAS preamps in specific are frequently referred to as "warm". They also appear to have some compression built in as you get close to the limit lights. People tend to push them and get a nice sound from doing it. [/QUOTE]

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