Rodyweil R003 Analog Preamp Review
It's very rare that I'll review products such as this, a 100% analog microphone preamp. The reason I chose to review this product? Because it boasts 75dB of clean gain.
Many podcasters and home recordists find themselves purchasing inexpensive one stop shops for all of their sound needs not realizing that the quality will be fair at best. Noisy preamps are the number one complaints you see online with consumers that have purchased discount audio gear. This is because the preamplifiers that increase the microphone audio signal are subpar and can't gain up a microphone without a lot of noise.
Although the preamps aren't great in discount audio interfaces and recorders, the line level input is usually much quieter because there's not much gain involved once audio gets to line level. Microphone audio levels are very low - sometimes as low as 1mV while line level is 1000X higher than that. It takes far less expensive components to pass thru a one volt signal than amplify a 1 millivolt signal.
The Rodyweil R003 analog microphone preamp could serve a high quality bridge between microphone and interface allowing you to bypass the low quality preamp in your interface and going in directly line level. The question is... is the R003 any good? In this video we're going to test it.
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Rodyweil did send me the R003 analog microphone preamp in exchange for a fair and honest review. I do get to keep it following this review but I'm not going to allow that to affect my opinion so you can expect this to be a fair and honest review. Rodyweil did not see this video before it was released nor did they have any input in the creation of this video.
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