An on-chip CMOS preamplifier for direct signal readout from an electret capacitor microphone has been designed with high immunity to common-mode and supply noise. The Gm-Opamp-RC based high impedance preamplifier helps to remove all disadvantages of the conventional JFET based amplifier and can drive a following switched-capacitor sigma-delta modulator in order to realize a compact digital electret microphone. The proposed chip is designed based on 0.18µm CMOS technology, and the simulation results show 86dB of dynamic range with 4.5µVrms of input-referred noise for an audio bandwidth of 20kHz and a total harmonic distortion (THD) of 1% at 90mVrms input. Power supply rejection ratio (PSRR) and common-mode rejection ration (CMRR) are more than 95dB at 1kHz. The proposed design dissipates 125µA and can operate over a wide supply voltage range of 1.6V to 3.3V.