Warm Audio WA12-MKII-ORANGE Single Channel Preamplifier – Orange
Warm Audio WA12-MKII-ORANGE Single Channel Preamplifier – Orange
The engineers and artists at Warm Audio design their products out of need, and the world needed a super-clean preamp with character, and so the WA12 MKII was conceived. A quality preamp with high headroom, low noise, and an astounding amount of character, the WA12 MKII was designed around authentic Cinemag transformers and a custom discrete op-amp designed in-house at Warm, the X731.
The WA12 MKII’s design allows you to push the amp and transformers for a subtle saturation, and a special tone button on the front panel switches input impedance from 150 to 600 ohms, changing both the tone of the Hi-Z and microphone inputs, allowing you to experiment with the MKII’s exciting sonic potential. The WA12 MKII was designed to warm, color, and shape your signal with a true analog signal path that’s easy to use and exciting to hear.
Features:
- Allows For Driving The Preamp And Transformers Into Saturation
- Fully Discrete, Transformer-Coupled, Through-Hole Component Topology
- Utilizes Premium-Grade Input And Output Transformers From Cinemag USA
- Output Attenuation Control (Positioned After The Cinemag Output Transformer)
- Uses A 1731-Style Discrete Op-Amp Socketed For Convenience.Â
- Can Be User-Replaced With Most 6-Pin (2520 Footprint), Discrete Op-Amps For Varying Flavor & Tone
Specifications:
- Single-Channel American Mic Pre & Instrument DI
- Inputs – Microphone XLR & Active Instrument 2meg Ohm Hi-Z
- Outputs – Transformer Balanced XLR & TRS
- Tone Button Input Impedance – Switches From 600 Ohms To 150 Ohms (Affects the Tone Of Both The Mic And Hi-Z Inputs)
- -20db Pad – Pads Both Mic And Instrument DI Inputs
- +48 Volt Phantom Power
- LED Metering
- Internal Power Supply (Grounded, 3-Pn Cable)
- Color: Orange
- 71 dB Of Gain
