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Product Description
The Shadow Hills Industries GAMA 8-Channel Microphone Preamp provides three different output transformer options on each channel. Switching between each of the different output transformer mode provides the user with 3 distinct tonal characteristics. The versatility allows the user to select the transformer that best suits the type of recording application. For example, when recording a guitar, you may like the Steel (API style) transformer or maybe on an orchestral you may want to go transformerless. The Nickel Transformer sounds very different from the other choices, and is "the sound" of many classic recordings. You will probably find yourself EQ-ing less, instead sculpting your sound by switching to the transformer that suits the instrument.
The eight hand-built microphone preamps are based around a discrete opamp running at 24 volts. Meticulously made from the best components right here in America. There are no IC chips or surface mount components anywhere in this design. Each channel has three different output transformer modes. Using transformers hand wound by people who have been winding transformers for 20 plus years. The perfect hand tensioning, exactly matched wire gage, bobbins and laminations, make these transformers more exactly match the best vintage examples than any of the modern machine wound types.