Preamps / Channel Strips

These neat little modules offer far better performance than you’d expect at this price. Is there anything not to like?

For this classy device, mic makers JZ enlisted the design work of outboard aficionados SPL. Is this a match made in heaven?

This innocent-looking combination of preamp and compressor holds a useful surprise up it’s sleeve...

There can’t be many preamps that offer this many channels for such a low price! But is it any good?

Can Chandler pack all of the EMI/Abbey Road sound for which they’re so famous into a single-module 500–series preamp?

With its parallel inputs, Thermionic Culture’s valve-based channel strip enables all sorts of creative recording options. And it sounds great, too!

Billed as their ‘greatest hits’ package, Manley’s Core packs a lot into a package that’s less expensive than their previous offerings.

More than a mere DI, this latest Sansamp if a fully featured bass preamp

For the first time, fans of Phoenix gear can assemble a full recording channel.

Sunset Sound S1P: Audio Examples.

Hollywood’s Sunset Sound studios celebrated their 50th anniversary with this incarnation of their legendary mic preamp.

Headway’s portable preamps are designed to help you get the best possible sound from your acoustic instrument, whatever it may be.

This 500–series preamp boasts huge tonal versatility.

Have Tree Audio gone out on a limb with their vintage-voiced valve channel strip?

Have Tree Audio gone out on a limb with their vintage-voiced valve channel strip?

Audient have updated their popular eight-channel preamp design to provide more features at a lower price.

Is this the world's first studio-quality preamp with a built-in guitar effects loop?

Its price tag might give you the blues, but if you can afford it, the Tube-Tech MP2A could make all your preamp dreams come true.

JoeMeek's enduringly popular preamps, processors and channel strips are now available for Lunchbox users too!

Does the VSP2's build quality and performance justify its high-end price tag?

Effects veterans Eventide aim to let singers in to the pedalboard party, with this cunningly designed effects-routing and switching box.