Really, You have to listen to this combination. I haven't heard a ribbon mic/preamp combo sound this good, and I've heard a lot of ribbon mics. Beyer, Royer, RCA, Crowley & Tripp. On this clip (remember, this is YouTube and there's a lot of compression), you'll see and hear the R84 on the Music Man amp. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MWuhfjTF... For this video shoot, I ran the R84 into my Sound Devices 442 mixer (not through the TRP) and right to my Canon XL2 camera. Thanks for making ribbon mics make sense, Wes. Ty Ford‎