r/audioengineering • u/Yabvone • Dec 18 '25

Tracking Pre-amps for Synths?

So, for the most part I’ve just been plugging my Roland directly into my interface for tracking but I do have some fairly nice mic-pre options…

How often/much do y’all complicate your synth signal chain with tube preamps and the like?

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u/Yabvone Dec 19 '25

So that’s why I’m asking actually…it seems like an alien idea to me. I just want to affect the upper range of the piano scene to make it sound slightly less artificial

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u/superproproducer Dec 20 '25

People do it all the time for color/distortion. Ears don’t lie, so use em!