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Economies of scale...... What a PITA. Boutique companies beware. When I finally found a metal shop to do the work, they did not want to do small quantities. Just costs more at the end of the day, & yer delivery gets pushed out in favour of the big orders.
Back to the preamp! I have nursed this design for a number of years & it really has turned out beautifully. Works really well on drums (I have sold a bunch of 8 channel units locally that get used as "drumpacks"), perc, acoustics, vox, piano, sax...
The way I have developed the power supply arrangement gives the design a lot of punch & dynamics, it has headroom for days. Well balanced sound to the unit.
There seemed to be a need for a clean pre in the lunchbox format, that was our main motivation for developing this design. Most of the 500 series pre's have iron in the path, & as much as we all like those harmonically enriched tones, clean is good sometimes!
Zappa said talking about music is like dancing about architecture so I'll shut up now, suffice to say it is a really cool sounding preamp.
Peter
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