Thomann FetAmp

I bought this to accompany the t.bone BC500, and it’s so worth it for a few reasons:
(1) increased gain = decreased noise. It adds a fair load of gain (without clipping) to dynamic mics, resulting in not needing to crank the gain knob, meaning there’s a much lower amount of noise in your signal,
(2) it adds a touch of colour to the sound, barely noticeable but a nice addition to the BC500,
(3) it’s a really great price for what it’s doing!

There are only really two slight drawbacks with this:
(1) the length means it kind of ‘sticks out’ whether you have it on the Interface end or Mic end, making it look messier and messing up your cable management a tiny bit,
(2) the weight means it doesn’t work amazingly to have it on the mic end of the BC500, as the stand isn’t strong enough to hold the angle with the weight of this sticking out of the back of your mic.

However, I’m so glad I bought this - even just the increased gain element is enough to make this worth having despite the very mild drawbacks!

The title says it all.

If you want a cloudlifter or fethead but are on a tighter budget, this fetamp is great. I have been using it with dynamic mics and ribbons for years and it provides a nice clean gain boost that helps me keep my pre-amps away from the noise floor and also does a much better job, than if you were to go through a PSU powered unit like a 286s and then into your preamps, when handeling the noisefloor and keeping it low.

I tend to plug it in straight to the mic and then run the xlr from it, that way I keep the unwanted noise away by minimizing noise that I may amplify