Warm Audio TB12 "Tone Beast" Tone Shaping Discrete Microphone Preamp

A top-quality, fully-professional preamp, Warm Audio's TB12 Tone Beast is designed with loads of gain for effortlessly capturing a variety of sources very nicely. The goal here was to build a superior, affordable microphone preamplifier, jam-packed with features, and all without compromising the quality and design parameters that make this type of microphone preamplifier so desirable. It's a veritable audio "swiss army knife" full of options and tones, and including top-notch CineMag USA transformers. Plus with its multiple discrete signal paths, it's hard to beat the Tone Beast's big, bold, fully-professional sound at this price.

Features

• -20 db Pad
• LED VU Meter
• 19" rack-mountable
• +48 V phantom power
• Premium Components

Specifications

• Discrete 312 preamp design with coupled CineMagTransformers
• 71 db of gain
• Transformer selection provides both Steel and 50% Nickel CineMag output transformers for varying character
• Transformer bypass switch allows for removal of the output transformer from the circuit
• Discrete opamp selection provides both the classic 1731 (vintage) and 918 (cleaner) style opamps.
  • These are socketed/swappable with your choice of 2,520 6-pin footprint opamps.
• Impedance switch labeled TONE to switch between 150 and 600 Ω input impedance
• Capacitor selection between Tantalum and Electrolytic for different audio characters
• 80 Hz hi-pass filter
• Polarity reverse
• Output attenuation allowing for saturation flexibility of both the opamps and transformers
• ¼" insert for the use of inline compressors, EQ's, etc.
• Balanced XLR mic (front and back), balanced TRS line, and ¼" instrument inputs
• Balanced XLR and TRS outputs
• External line-lump 24V AC power transformer for low noise