🎙️ FetHead TRITON Audio In-Line Microphone Preamp: Boosting Performance for Better Sound Quality Review

Using Fetheads with Zoom H6 recorder and Shure SM58 microphones. The H6's preamps aren't powerful enough to boost dynamic mics, meaning you'll need to crank the zoom input volume to 7 or 8 to get a usable signal, which also raises the noise floor and results in an audible sound. noise in the background. With the fetheads connected to the mics each signal is boosted by about 20dB and I can turn the input volume down to about 3.5. Puff. The lower noise level disappears. Fetheads aren't cheap, but

No manufacturer of these things will tell you current draw, equivalent input noise, maximum input or output level, distortion, etc. etc. Specs are very tight. PREVIEW: I did some distortion measurements using a high quality German 24-bit interface and my own measurement system under development. I don't have an AP measurement system, so I don't promise absolute performance based on a single sample. So far this device appears to have distortion ranging from low at low frequencies to around 1% at

I am using this preamp to boost the output of a Sure Model 556 microphone so it will work with an ICOM IC-7610 ham radio transceiver. The Model 556 was developed in 1947; Mine is from the early 50's. I've owned it since the 60's. This is a supercardioid dynamic microphone for broadcast applications. ICOM transceivers are designed to work with high output power electret microphones used in PCs and smartphones. (They use 1-8V phantom power provided by the transceiver.) Later ICOM models have…

At the time of writing this I couldn't find a comparison of these two built in preamps anywhere. I was able to run a parallel test with a Trident Fethead and an sE Electronics DM1 Dynamite. TEST EQUIPMENT: Two SHURE SM58 dynamic microphones (both purchased at the same time and in pristine condition) Two 20ft Mogami Gold 2534 XLR cables - Triton Fethead Standard-sE Electronics DM1 Dynamite - Behringer XR18 digital mixer - Reaper 64-bit -DAW for recording and playback -Two functional main ear…