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Contents

Daking Audio Mic Pre 4T

1.1 About Daking Audio

1.2 Quick Start Guide

1.2.1 Don’t read the manual!

1.2.2 Basic Set Up

1.3 The Power Supply

1.4 Back Panel

1.4.1 In General: XLR Connectors and

” TRS Connectors

1.4.2 Microphone Input (XLR)

1.4.3 Line Output (XLR or

” TRS)

1.4.4 Power supply Connection

1.5 Front Panel

1.5.1 LED VU and Peak Meter

1.5.2 Gain Knob

1.5.3

HPF (High-Pass Filter) Knob………………………………...9

1.5.4

” Instrument Input Jack

1.5.5

” Button

1.5.6 Pad Button

1.5.7 +48 Button

1.5.8 Ø Button

1.6 Signal Flow: Patching Into and Out of Your Mic Pre 4T

1.6.1 Microphone to Mic Pre 4T to Audio Interface or Mixer

1.6.2 Via a Patch Bay

1.7 Specifications

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Summary of Contents for Mic Pre 4T

Page 1: ...1 Daking Audio Daking Audio Mic Pre 4T Manual VERSION 2 10 5 21 ...

Page 2: ... two blades and a third grounding prong The wide blade or the third prong are provided for your safety If the provided plug does not fit into your outlet consult an electrician for replacement of the obsolete outlet 9 Protect the power cord and all connecting cables from being walked on or pinched particularly at plugs receptacles and the point where they exit from the device 10 Only use attachmen...

Page 3: ... Input XLR 7 1 4 3 Line Output XLR or TRS 7 1 4 4 Power supply Connection 7 1 5 Front Panel 8 1 5 1 LED VU and Peak Meter 8 1 5 2 Gain Knob 9 1 5 3 HPF High Pass Filter Knob 9 1 5 4 Instrument Input Jack 10 1 5 5 Button 11 1 5 6 Pad Button 11 1 5 7 48 Button 11 1 5 8 Ø Button 11 1 6 Signal Flow Patching Into and Out of Your Mic Pre 4T 12 1 6 1 Microphone to Mic Pre 4T to Audio Interface or Mixer 1...

Page 4: ...aved aluminum knobs that give a much more precise and quality feel We designed our gear to be gear you d own for life not some passing fancy you d leave in the dust once you figured what the good stuff sounds like This IS the good stuff Geoff Daking 1 2 Quick Start Guide 1 2 1 Don t read the manual Most of you will already know how to use mic preamps perfectly well and might be even a little offen...

Page 5: ...phone XLR Female to XLR Male cable If the mic you are using is a condenser microphone that requires phantom power push in the 48 Button to engage phantom power Patch out of the Output Jack of the same preamp to the line level input of your recording device using either a microphone XLR Female to XLR Male cable or balanced line XLR Female to a TRS Male cable if your recording device has TRS inputs ...

Page 6: ...arts because the female plug fits into the male plug to join together The male XLR has 3 pins male pins inside the plug and the female XLR has three holes inside the plug female holes Check out the diagrams below TRS Tip Ring Sleeve cables have male 3 conductor diameter connectors on both ends These connectors are cheaper less reliable and offer less contact area for the electrical connection and ...

Page 7: ...4 3 Line Output XLR The output signal from your preamp comes from here If you are connecting your preamp to a patch bay on a console instead of a line XLR input on another piece of gear you will want to purchase or make a female XLR to male TRS adaptor cable if your patch bay has TRS inputs The output signal is line level not mic level so patching it into a mic pre amp afterwards is unnecessary an...

Page 8: ...ng consoles will clip between 24dBu to 30dBu VU Meters measure the RMS Root Mean Square of an audio signal Often the RMS is considered to be the continuous level of the signal A PPM Peak Program Meter measures the signal much more quickly and keeps track of the absolute value of the greatest voltage in the audio signal This is why the Peak Indicator can be lit when the VU meter is showing a much l...

Page 9: ...formance Then reduce the gain by 5 10dB Disengage the mute of the console or DAW and listen to the signal Note that many performers will sing or play significantly harder and more energetically when they believe they are recording compared to when they believe that levels are being set If you are still showing peaking on the VU meter but the gain switch is turned down all the way engage the Pad bu...

Page 10: ...quencies If you are recording a female vocal for instance you can be pretty sure that any frequencies below 80 Hz are not part of the vocal performance There might be plosives from popped P s and rumble from the A Train or the HVAC system that will not only make your bass muddy sounding in the mix but will diminish the intensity of low frequency transients How to use it After you have set your gai...

Page 11: ...om power which is used to power the onboard electronics in condenser microphones or active direct injection DI boxes 1 5 8 Ø Button The Ø button flips the phase of the audio signal by swapping pin 2 and pin 3 of the XLR jack of the microphone input Often it is used when two microphones are being used on the same source like the top and bottom microphones for a snare drum Often the phase is flipped...

Page 12: ...e racked and then installed as part of a patch bay system This makes connections easier as you don t need to go behind your rack to plug and unplug cables Patch bays are usually made up of modules with 2 jacks in the front one over the other and two jacks or solder terminals or DB25 etc on the back For the sake of this manual we ll assume you re using a TRS patch bay with jacks on the front and ba...

Page 13: ...TRS to XLR Male cable 2 Patch to top jack of the patch bay module from an output of the MP 4T using the XLR Female to TRS cable 3 Now you can patch into a mic pre from the front of the patch bay Simply run a patch cable from your source microphone into the bottom jack on the module and then run from the top jack on the module to wherever the signal needs to go ...

Page 14: ...sly Variable Gain Control 20 Segment VU Meter 20 to 25 26dB Peak indicator All relay switching w gold bifurcated contacts Switched 48v Phantom power 20dB pad on mic input Stainless steel construction for noise immunity Custom aluminum knobs Power supply included 75dB gain Unit Weight 7 75 lbs Unit Dimensions 1 75 x19 x10 Boxed Weight 11 1 lbs Boxed Dimensions 29 x14 x6 ...

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