Warm Audio - Single-Channel British Microphone Preamplifier with Equalizer - Black
About this product
Record rich sounds with this Warm Audio 73-style preamp. The fully discrete Carnhill transformers provide a balanced signal path, enabling intensive recording and mixing, while the complex dual switch potentiometers in the EQ sections offer reliability during usage. This Warm Audio 73-style preamp is hand-wired and hand-made for quality and durability.
Single-channel, class A, '73-style British microphone preamplifier
Equally shines on all types of microphones and sources, including vocals, acoustic/electric guitars, bass, drums, percussion, orchestras, keyboards, and even as a tone shaping tool to run partial or complete mixes through.
Equalizer
Allows you to boost or cut low, mid, and high band frequencies.
80dB of gain and fully discrete Carnhill transformer balanced signal path
There's no recording, mixing, or engineering task that WA73 can't handle.
Tone button
Changes input transformer impedance for varying a tone.
Hand-wired and hand-assembled
Classic '73-style preamplifiers were often hand-wired and so is WA73. It is hand-wired and hand-assembled, including the PCB components that are all populated by hand.
Four-position, inductor-based high-pass filter
Includes 50, 80, 160, and 300Hz settings.
Inputs/outputs
XLR microphone input, line level TRS input, TS send/receive insert jacks, XLR and TRS line level outputs, and direct-in, instrument input.
- Number of Channels1Surround Sound SupportedNot ApplicableAudio Only Inputs1 x 3.5mm audio, 1 x Analog audio
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