Warm Audio TB12 "Tone Beast" - 500 Mic Pre

Warm Audio TB12 Tone Beast microphone preamplifier Unleash the beast! The TB12 Tone Beast is a fully professional preamp with a wealth of features that meet all the needs of a sound engineer. This preamp is full of options and tones, it is as versatile and reliable as a Swiss Army knife. Thanks to top-class CineMag transformers and several discrete signal paths, it is difficult to fully appreciate the all-encompassing, bold, fully professional sound of the Tone Beast at a good price. The Tone Beast is a microphone preamplifier that adds special colors to your sound when turned on. The 2 op-amps and 2 output transformers on toggle switches will not differ much, but since one preamp adds drive to the harmonics, the unique character of each of these components becomes obvious in the mix. The Tone Beast is customizable and allows users to build and change their own op-amps. Warm Audio has packed its best tones into this unique unit, and it performs up to maximum clips and sounds great. The output control on the TB12 allows you to limit the signal coming out of the preamp, even when pushing the gain to really high levels, giving you maximum control. Tone shaping of a microphone preamp with a DI box made affordable! When designing the TB12 Tone Beast, Warm Audio's goal was to make a microphone preamp affordable, but without compromising the quality and design parameters that make this type of microphone preamp so desirable. Premium components in every Warm Audio product Warm Audio TB12 "Tone Beast" is a fully discrete high-voltage microphone preamplifier using CineMag USA Transformers. Don't be afraid to harm the beast! You can push it to the max if you want, and it can be unleashed and be quite pleasant on electric guitar, bass, or any other instrument. When Warm Audio was studying handmade microphone preamps, some "subtle" differences were summarized, which were later involved in the design of Warm Audio preamps. So one of these subtleties concerns the final mix of a composition; we all know that it is difficult to set "what is needed, but not always very noticeable" from the first time. The various parameters in the TB12 are subtle, but when introduced into saturation, they are noticeable and can make a big difference to how your final mix will sound. Home musicians and professional studios will find the Tone Beast an extremely powerful and fully professional tool that is capable of warming and shaping signals/mixes in a way that is very pleasing to the ear. Specifications: Uses high-quality CineMag USA Transformers. 71 dB of gain Transformer selection provides both Steel and 50% Nickel CineMag output transformers for different character. Transformer bypass switch allows for removing the output transformer from the circuit. Discrete Opamp selection allows for choosing between 1731 (vintage) and 918 (clean) op-amps. They are socketed/replaceable with your choice of 2520 6-pin op-amps. Impedance switch labeled TONE for switching between 150 and 600 ohm input impedance. 2 Meg Ohm True HI-Z input on the front panel sends the instrument signal through the entire circuit including both Cinemag transformers and discrete op-amps. Great for guitars, bass, keyboards, and other instruments that have a 1/4" output jack. Capacitor selection between Tantalum and Electrolytic for different sound characters 80 Hz high-pass filter Polarity reverse. +48V phantom power. Output attenuation provides flexibility for saturating both the op-amps and transformers. ¼" Jack for using built-in compressors, equalizers, etc. Balanced XLR microphone (front and back), balanced TRS line, and ¼" instrument inputs. Balanced XLR and TRS outputs. -20db Pad. LED VU meter 500-series rack mountable External 24V AC power transformer for low noise Overview of Warm Audio TB12 "Tone Beast" - 500 Mic Pre Preamplifier in stock in Ukraine