Chandler Germanium Preamp/DI
If you like clean, un-colored audio, run as far away from this baby as you can! On the other hand, if you like color, flavor and fatness on your tracks, the Germanium mic/line/DI preamp will be among your favorite tools. Germanium transistors were what gave early sold-state gear its creamy tonality back in the '60s. With this mono pre, you can dial-in a little or a lot of that sweet "Ger-monic" distortion. Use it on mic'd signal, or to add color to previously recorded tracks. It's a favorite of ours, often getting chosen over tube devices. Got "thick"?
Chandler's newest series of units starts off with the GERMANIUM pre amp. A completely new design by Chandler Limited designer Wade Goeke that uses classic germanium transistors in all class A, transformer balanced, circuits. The use of germanium devices opens a whole new sound palate not found in any pro audio equipment currently manufactured.
These incredibly smooth sounding transistors were the basis of the earliest transistor designs by Neve (1053, 1055, 1057), EMI ( TG12345 MKI), Telefunken, and Fairchild. Those familiar with these units can attest to the special sound of the germanium tranasistor. The GERMANIUM series runs on +40 volt power, high current, and has a huge +34 output before clipping. The sound is warm and smooth as with many vintage style circuits, but you'll find a whole new world of smooth here as well as a sound that settles in perfectly to your tracks without fighting. Add these new circuits to Chandler's new transformer line that combines the best parts of our favorite trannies, St Ives and Gardners, into new great sounding input and output transformers.
Features:
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- I/O: XLR
- DI - Unbalanced jack with 100k input impedance
- Germanium Drive controls the input gain of the Germanium amp
- Pad and Thick Switches
- Feedback Control to adjust the amount of signal fed from the amplifier output back to the input
- 10-segment LED VU meter
GERMANIUM units function on all Chandler TG and LTD power supplies.
Please contact Chandler for any questions regarding power supplies.
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