Drawmer 1960 Vacuum Tube Compressor Pre-Amplifier

1960 Vacuum Tube Compressor Pre-Amplifier description:

The Drawmer 1960 Vacuum Tube Compressor Pre-Amplifier. A completely natural sounding "soft knee" vacuum tube compressor and an extremely low noise microphone pre-amplifier with switchable 48 volt phantom power.

The Drawmer 1960 combines eight active tube stages and the low noise and reliability of solid state electronics, providing the ultimate direct interface between the sound source and the recording medium. The Drawmer 1960 is a two channel unit with each channel comprised of a completely natural sounding "soft knee" vacuum tube compressor and an extremely low noise microphone pre-amplifier with switchable 48 volt phantom power. A further auxiliary instrument pre-amp with EQ is also provided. This powerful combination of the classic valve circuit, offering unsurpassed tonality, and the low noise balanced microphone input with up to 60dB of gain has allowed engineers throughout the world to exploit the full potential of high performance condenser microphones. An example of this would be the direct to digital stereo recording of live classical music without the necessity of a mixing console.

The main features of the Drawmer 1960 include:

• Natural sounding "soft knee" vacuum tube compressor and an extremely low noise microphone pre-amplifier with switchable 48 volt phantom power
• 2 Channel, 2 rack space vacuum tube compressor with mic/line/instrument preamp
• Proprietary vacuum tube/FET based discrete VCA
• Classic attack/release curvers used in vintage compressors
• Auto ratio depending on signal attack slope (1:30 maximum)
• VU switchable metering
• Vacuum tube preamp accepts mic, line or front panel instrument
• Hi-gain switch for high impedence instrument inputs (e.g. guitar)
• Bright switch on instrument input
• +4 operation