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If you are looking for 19" rackmount or 500-series Mic Preamps, or Preamplier plug-ins, Voice Channels and all manner of Channel Strips, you will find the Sound On Sound web articles collected here.

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    Royer Labs dBooster

    Cascade Preamplifier

    The idea of an in-line gain booster placed between a moving-coil or ribbon mic and a mic preamp isn't new — so what makes this one special?

    Reviews Jul 2019
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    SPL Crescendo

    Eight-channel Microphone Preamplifier

    'Good enough' is rarely good enough for SPL, as this thoroughly over-engineered preamp testifies!

    Reviews May 2019
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    Overstayer 8755DM

    Stereo Modular Channel

    Overstayer's versatile stereo processor offers endless ways to manipulate — or obliterate — any input signal!

    Reviews Apr 2019
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    Warm Audio WA73-EQ

    Microphone Preamplifier & EQ

    Find out how just how well this vintage recreation compares with the original that inspired it.

    Reviews Apr 2019
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    Phoenix Audio Ascent Two EQ

    Dual-channel Microphone Preamplifier, DI & EQ

    Though a great recording front‑end, this versatile and characterful processor could just as easily find a home on your stereo mix bus...

    Reviews Mar 2019
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    Golden Age Premier Pre-73 & PreQ-73

    Microphone Preamplifiers & Equalisers

    Golden Age's new Premier brand takes their popular Pre‑73 preamps to the next level.

    Reviews Mar 2019
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    sE Electronics DM1 Dynamite

    In‑line Mic Preamplifier

    We put sE's claims of truly transparent gain to the test...

    Reviews Feb 2019
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    Cathedral Pipes - Westminster Abbey Preamp - NAMM 2019

    Cathedral Pipes release The Westminster Abbey preamp, a hand-built desktop tube preamplifier with a classic, rich British sound.

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    Universal Audio Custom Shop - NAMM 2019

    UA return to their roots with their Santa Cruz-based facility focusing on handmade, high-end analogue...

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    Daking Audio Mic Pre II

    Dual-channel Microphone Preamplifier

    Find out what this vintage-inspired preamp has to offer the modern recordist.

    Reviews Dec 2018
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    Mytek Brooklyn DAC+

    D-A Converter, Headphone Amp & Preamp

    This D-A converter boasts a range of useful features — as well as impressive performance.

    Reviews Dec 2018
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    SPL Crescendo: the first eight-channel 120V mic preamp

    120V DV Audio Rail offers huge headroom and clean, "relaxed" sound.

    Sound Performance Lab (aka SPL) have released an eight-channel mic preamp called the Crescendo which uses...

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    SE launch DM1 Dynamite in-line preamp at AES (Video)

    Uses phantom power to provide an extra 28dB of gain

    Launched alongside the new...

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    Useful Arts SFP-30 Tube Preamp launched at AES

    Telefunken V76-inspired tube preamp sports variable second-order harmonics control

    Though Useful Arts have only been around as a brand for just over a year, their quest for vibrant ’...

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    Rupert Neve Designs launch 5211 preamp at AES

    Two-channel preamp lets you drive transformer without hitting the red on your interface

    Launched at the AES Convention in New York, the Rupert Neve Designs 5211 is a two-channel mic preamp with...

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    Cranborne Audio Camden 500

    Microphone Preamplifier

    This debut product from a new British company is not just another mic preamp...

    Reviews Oct 2018
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    Electro-Harmonix 95000

    Performance Loop Laboratory

    With mic preamps, multitrack recording and mixing built in, EHX’s 95000 is much more than your average looper.

    Reviews Oct 2018
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    Elysia Skulpter 500

    500-series Channel Strip

    Skulpter 500 is ostensibly a mic preamp, but there’s much more to it than that — in fact, you could argue that there’s enough on offer to call it a channel strip.

    Reviews Oct 2018
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    Phoenix Audio N-8

    Active DI & Line Amp

    Crammed with discrete electronics and boasting huge headroom, this box has rather more to offer than the average DI...

    Reviews Oct 2018
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    Universal Audio OX

    Guitar Speaker Emulation System

    Don’t have a great-sounding room? Can’t turn your amp up to get the sounds you want? Want to turn down your speaker without sacrificing your tube amp’s tonality? Maybe this changes everything...

    Reviews Sep 2018
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    UAD 9.6 includes tube channel strip, Suhr Amp & Putnam's mics

    Four plug-ins included in latest Universal Audio update

    The latest update to the Universal Audio Powered Plug-in platform includes four new titles: the UA-developed...

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