Pro Audio Stereo Preamp?

[strube]

I figured I needed to come out of hiding to ask a question.

I am tasked with putting together a four speaker stereo AV system for a small town community center. I have everything lined out except for some sort of preamp. I am just a little out of my league here, to be honest; and I don't have a lot of time to do research on this because I am way behind on my real research .

I really need to keep the costs down. I have specified four Behringer speakers, 2 EP2000 amps, and a projector and screen for Powerpoint stuff.

Originally I was going to just use a cheap mixer as the preamp and find a couple TRS y-cables to go to the two amps. Is this okay? Honestly, for ease of setup I would like to have more than one RCA input (and maybe outputs to two sets of stereo speakers?), so the little mixer isn't ideal from that perspective. I couldn't seem to find professional stereo preamps, but perhaps I just don't know what I am looking for. Maybe the little mixer is the way to go considering the cost. Can someone help me out?


Thanks!

Strube

 

[Seth=L]

Pyramid makes a very inexpensive, yet effective preamp you could use.

http://www.buy.com/prod/pyramid-pr2500-professional-home-studio-pre-amplifiers/q/loc/111/202973385.html

 

[adwilk]

I'm a huge fan of the mixer idea, They are super easy to use and are what a "pro audio preamp" kind of is. If the budget allows, I would upgrade to this guy. The added features are well worth it IMO. It has the outputs you need, computer interface, and the slide controls for "volume" are much easier to use and often times less sensitive than the knob controls.

You're on the right track for sure though, strube...