Preamps / Channel Strips

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

The D4 is a single-channel mic preamp based on a design created by EMI’s in-house Recording Engineering Development Department, as part of the development of the REDD.51 tube console.

Based on an obscure 1950s valve preamp, the DA2 offers a lot of character for a relatively low outlay.

The world’s most famous console preamp and EQ continues to evolve to meet the needs of the modern studio.

Find out how Warm Audio’s API-inspired preamp compares with the real thing.