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Product Description
The Golden Age Audio Pre 73 MKIV is the latest and greatest update to their best-selling ‘73-style preamp series. The spirit of classic British consoles lives on in the Pre 73 MKIV, and it sounds warm, punchy, sweet, and musical. Use it to add tone and color to your favorite mics, or keep things clean; it also doubles as a line-level preamp and DI box for electric guitar and bass. Get classic console tone—and get the most out of your mic locker.
CLASSIC CONSOLE COLOR
Get vintage color and punch by cranking up the Gain knob without fear—a dedicated Output control lets you attenuate the signal so you can drive the preamp without overloading your interface inputs. Engage the -14 dB pad for even more control of hot signals, or keep things clean and transparent by backing off on the Gain and turning up the Output. Further sculpt your tone via the selectable low-pass filter to eliminate unwanted low-end rumble at the source, and use the selectable top-end Air EQ to add some shimmer and presence to your top-end. Use the Low-Z switch to toggle between 1200 or 300 Ω resistance and hear how your mics react!
CONNECT TO ANYTHING
The Pre-73 MKIV’s switchable +48 V mic input lets you use both condenser and dynamic microphones, while its 80 dB of Gain make it ideal for use with sensitive ribbon microphones on delicate sound sources. Line- and instrument-level inputs allow further connection to nearly any audio source, and you get an Insert jack for using external processors like EQs and compressors. You have your choice of TRS or XLR out.
QUALITY FIRST
True to classic preamps of yesterday, the Pre 73 MKIV was designed with a focused attention to component choices and build quality not found in other preamps near the same price. No surface-mount components or integrated circuits are used, and all inputs and outputs are transformer-balanced, using two different purpose-optimized transformers. Its external power supply eliminates the risk of self-noise, and its metal half-rack chassis is both sturdy and portable.
Features
Specifications
| Analog or Digital | |
|---|---|
| Channels | |
| Chassis | |
| Input Connectors | 1/4-inch TRS, XLR Combo Jack TRS |
| Output Connectors | 1/4-inch TRS, Analog XLR |
| Tube or Solid State |