Black Box Analog Designs MM-1 PRE/DI  From Black Box

There seems to be an obsession with THD when it comes to mic pre designs. Manufacturers boast about how “clean” their designs are and how low the THD is as if these harmonics are the plague yet the fastest growing trend in plug-in design is creating plug-ins that add back these harmonics! Tape, console, tube and various analog emulations that add pleasing harmonics and distortion are more in demand than ever! Why? Because the human ear LOVES harmonics! So why are manufacturers bragging about how they have managed to remove them from the design while mixers are having to add more emulations on to compensate? We have no idea but we certainly aren’t! We love harmonics and our pre has been designed to SOUND amazing! We give you the ability to add a ton of rich, beautiful and musical harmonics and give you unprecidented control over it!

Our entirely analog audio circuit uses only tubes for amplification and is entirely free of op amps, ICs and transistors! From precisely, hand matched resistors and capacitors to custom wound transformers, every part is selected and built for the absolute highest quality sound.

We all know that a piece of gear is only as good as its power supply! For that reason, our preamps use a massive toroidal to supply 350v of pure, linear power to get the most out of the tubes. Real power means real sound!

Features:

• Independently controlled Pentode and Triode tube stages

• Custom wound input and output transformers

• Entirely analog audio path (No ICs or Op amps)

• Switchable input impedance at input transformer 

• 5 position, gentle and musical roll off

• “Air” circuit from the HG-2

• Two response modes

• 15 db pad

• Linear power supply

• Passive output attenuation control

• 48v Phantom power 

• Dual voltage