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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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    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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    Big Bear Audio MP1 & MP1+

    500-series ‘Colour’ Mic Preamps

    Not only do these preamps boast superb performance, they can also host one of the growing range of DIYRE Colour modules.

    Reviews Jul 2018
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    Summer NAMM 18: LaChapell Audio 500DT & 500CS

    We check out their 500-series dual-topology preamp and channel strip

    LaChapell Audio are perhaps best known for their boutique studio hardware, but with their new black series,...

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    JHS Pedals Pulp ‘N’ Peel 500

    500-series Channel Strip

    Although derived from their stompbox of the same name, JHS Pedals’ debut 500-series module isn’t just for guitarists!

    Reviews Jun 2018
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    Rupert Neve Designs 500-series

    Analogue Preamps & Processors

    We cast our eyes and ears over Mr Neve’s elegant contributions to the 500-series format.

    Reviews May 2018
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    Messe 2018: Elysia Skulpter 500

    Sound shaping preamp is “everything you’ll ever need in front of your DAW"

    Studio hardware makers Elysia continue their exploration of the 500-series format with Skulpter 500, their...

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    Lindell Audio WL-3 R

    500-series Channel Strip

    How did the 500-series’ first discrete, transformer-balanced full channel strip fare in our tests?

    Reviews Apr 2018
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    LaChapell Audio 500TDI

    500-series Tube DI

    LaChapell Audio’s experience with tubes has enabled the company to develop its proprietary TrueTube technology...

    Reviews Mar 2018
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    Louder Than Liftoff Silver Bullet

    Stereo Mic Preamp, EQ & Distortion Processor

    Intended as a means of adding ‘analogue mojo’, this device has been designed to integrate seamlessly into a DAW-based workflow.

    Reviews Mar 2018
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    Universal Audio introduce Helios Type 69 Preamp/EQ

    Channel strip from revered Olympic Studios desk modelled

    Universal Audio have released UAD Software version 9.5 and, with it, three new plug-ins for their UAD-2 plug-...

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