Will this sound TOO warm?

[mustangranch99]

I'm considering getting a Warm WA-12 pre amp for either a AT 4047 or a Mojave MA 201 for voice overs, both fairly warm mics.

My question is, since the WA-12 is known for warming up sound, will that make the recording TOO warm? Since I'm combining a warm mic with a warm pre amp, will that cause some sort of imbalance and make it sound muddy/bad?

Does the WA-12 have any way of disabling it's warmness boost?

Thank you for reading.

 

[David W. Jones]

This is basically is an API 312 knockoff, which would not be my first choice for a VO mic pre.

That being said, the first VO kit I owned years back was an API lunchbox with 500 series mic pre and compressor fed by a Neumann U47.

I do around 600 VO's a year, with all types of mic/pre combos, from U87/John Hardy M1, Blue Dragonfly/Avalon VT737sp, MKH416/Sound Devices, to SM58/Digidesign, and everything in between. Bottom line, nobody listening to the finished product on the air is going to know what mic/pre combo was used except me, and the engineer.

Buy what works best for your voice, and get to work!

All the best!

Dave