pileofstuff | Cheap microphone preamp. Is it any good? @pileofstuff | Uploaded July 2024 | Updated October 2024, 10 hours ago.
I picked up a really cheap microphone pre-amp recently.
Today, I'm going to test it out and see if it will help me with my ancient Shure microphone.

spoiler alert: It failed my most basic test


Wikipedia phantom power article:en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantom_power

And the JFET article: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JFET

Cloudlifter patent (with schematics): patents.google.com/patent/US9668045B1/en?oq=us9668045b1


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