Rane MS 1b - moosers's review
The Rane MS 1 is a single channel microphone preamplifier for use in the recording studio. It's a simple preamp, coming in a unique casing that doesn't take up much space even though it's not tradit…
API Audio 212L - moosers's review
The API Audio 212L is a mini microphone preamplifier that is a module for a 200 series rack casing. The 200 series rack is a smaller, less popular version of the incredibly popular 500 series casing…
Pultec MB-1 - moosers's review
The Pultec MB-1 is the general name given to the Pultec tube dual channel microphone preamp. I don't know much background information about these, but there seems to be a lot of clones out there sin…
Ridge Farm The Gas Cooker - "Tube Pre-amp/DI box that colors, but enhances tone"
This is a tube driven DI box/mic pre-amp. This alone makes it an interesting package as most mic pre-amps will not double as a DI box. I've noticed, however, that given how difficult it is to use as …
Inward Connections MP 820 - moosers's review
The Inward Connections MP 820 is a microphone preamplifier that is little known but has a huge sound and is up there with the best sound preamps that I've used. You can't really buy these in too man…
Scully 280 - moosers's review
The Scully 280 is a microphone preamp that is originally found in a tape machine. I don't know the year that these are from, but they're pretty old from what I can tell. We've got a set of these pr…
Sebatron vmp-2000e - "Sebatron Review"
What Technology? (analog, digital, tube...) This is a tube Pre-amp made in Australia which I bought from a recommendation of a friend of mine.The tubes run on full valve voltage.The construction is …
Quad Eight MP-404 - moosers's review
The Quad Eight MP-404's are discrete preamplifier modules from an analog console. The ones that I've used were racked in a custom casing with an external power supply, as it what anyone will need to…
Neve 3115 - moosers's review
The Neve 3115's are vintage modules that I'm not sure the origin of. I've used a pair of these racked in a custom casing with it's own power supply and all, making it a self sufficient unit, as is n…
Focusrite ISA 220 - moosers's review
The Focusrite ISA 220 'Session Pack' is a mono channel strip that consists of a microphone preamp, an equalizer, a compressor, a limiter, and a de-esser. It is an analog piece of gear and has mostly…
Burl Audio B-1 - moosers's review
The Burl Audio B-1 is a 500 series microphone preamplifier. It's only available in a 500 series lunchbox style casing, so it doesn't have any connections or power supply of it's own, as you'll get t…
Crane Song Flamingo - moosers's review
Crane Song's Flamingo is a dual channel microphone preamplifier designed for use in the recording studio. It is an analog piece of gear and will take up only a single space in a rack casing. I don'…
A-designs MP-2A - moosers's review
A-Designs MP-2A is a dual channel tube microphone preamplifier that should be used only inside the confines of a professional or semi-professional recording studio. There is also a single channel ve…
Ampex MX-10 - moosers's review
The Ampex MX-10 is a vintage analog preamplifier/summing mixer. It's got six separate channels that are bused down to a single channel. I don't really know the types of connections that it has sinc…
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…
Altec Lansing 1567A - moosers's review
The Altec Lansing 1567A is a vintage tube preamplifier. It's a five to one channel mixing amplifier. We've got it in the studio where I work, and most of the time it gets used to get a sort of vint…
API Audio 3124+ - "Four Mic Pre's in one Rackspace!"
These are some of my favorite mic pres that I have used at the new studio that I work at. I really like the fact that they are such a useful mic pre and don't color the sound. These are analog mic pr…
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…
