Avedis Audio MA5 - moosers's review
The Avedis Audio MA5 is a 500 series (lunchbox) style microphone preamplifier. The preamp is made out of class A amplifier with a custom designed Jensen output transformer. It's made out of all ana…
Old School Audio MP1-A - moosers's review
Old School Audio's MP1-A is a simple 500 series microphone preamplifier. It's easy to use and won't throw any curveballs at you. It has a 1/4" instrument input in the front of it, but it doesn't ha…
Garnet Guillotine - moosers's review
Garnet's Guillotine is a tube based guitar preamplifier, designed to substitute the need for a tube amplifier. It's got two 12AU7 tubes in it, as well as 1/4" connections for input and output, as we…
D.W. Fearn VT-2 - "Expensive but fabulous new tube preamp"
This is a tube preamp, but using modern technology, it does sound a little different from the classic tube preamps. This has two preamps on it, both of which have the same controls. It needs to be pu…
PreSonus DigiMax LT - moosers's review
Presonus' DigiMax LT is a straight forward set of eight microphone preamplifiers. It's simple in just about every way, as I guess it needs to be in order for them to fit eight channels of mic pres i…
Symetrix 302 - moosers's review
The Symetrix 302 is a discontinued dual channel microphone preamplifier that can be used for a variety of purposes. I've got experience using the 302 in a recording studio setting, as I'm an audio e…
Neve 31102 - moosers's review
The Neve 31102 is a channel strip that consists of a preamplifier and an equalizer. I've used these preamps in a Neve 8068 console, which I believe these come standard with. They are very similar t…
AEA TRP ribbon pre - moosers's review
The AEA TRP Ribbon Pre is definitely the only 'ribbon only' mic pre that I've used, or even seen for that matter that I can remember. The TRP is two channels that each have XLR and 1/4" inputs and o…
Summit 2BA-221 - moosers's review
The Summit 2BA-221 is a single channel microphone preamp that has variable impedance and vacuum tube outputs. It it made up of solely analog components and has both XLR and 1/4" connections for inpu…
Drawmer TS-1 Tubestation - moosers's review
The Drawmer TS-1 Tubestation is a stereo compressor and mono microphone preamplifier in a single size rack mountable unit. It's got sections of connections for the mic preamp, which has an XLR input…
True Systems Precision 8 - moosers's review
The True Systems Precision 8 is an eight channel microphone preamplifier. It is simple in make up, consisting of eight XLR inputs and eight 1/4" outputs, with the first two XLR inputs being dual 1/4…
TL Audio 5050 Mono Tube Preamp & Compressor - moosers's review
The TL Audio Ivory Series 5050 is a channel strip in the form of a piece of outboard gear, consisting of microphone preamplifier and a compressor. It is made up of analog components, and since the o…
Schoeps VSR 5 - moosers's review
The Schoeps VSR 5 is an analog dual channel microphone preamplifier to be used in the recording studio. While mostly known for making microphones, Schoeps also has a pretty impressive line of microp…
Sytek Audio Systems MPX-4A - moosers's review
The Sytek Audio Systems MPX-4A is a four channel microphones preamplifier with a simple configuration and big sound. The MPX-4A has solid state, transformerless design, consisting of all class A par…
Adm 780 - moosers's review
The ADM 780 is a microphone preamplifier that is originally found in a console, the exact origin of which I'm not sure of. It is definitely from a console though because it has some features that yo…
