The TB12 Tone Beast Black is a fully professional preamp design
with loads of gain that can effortlessly capture an array of sources
very well. It is a swiss army knife full of options and tones. With top
notch CineMag transformers and multiple discrete signal paths, it's hard
to beat the Tone Beast's big, bold, fully-professional sound at this
price.
The Tone Beast Black is a mic pre that likes to be pushed and when
pushed will colorize your signal ever so sweetly. The 2 opamps and 2
output transformers at the flip of their switches won't appear to be
much different, but as one drives the pre into harmonic distortion, the
unique character of each of these components becomes apparent. The Tone
Beast Black is customizable and allows users to source and swap in their
own opamps. The output control on the TB12 allows you to limit the
signal exiting the preamp even when pushing the gain to really hot
levels, giving you maximum control.
When designing the TB12 Tone Beast Black our goal was to make a
microphone preamplifier affordable and jam packed full of options,
without compromising the quality and design parameters that make this
type of microphone preamplifier so desirable.
The TB12 "Tone Beast Black" is a fully discrete, high-voltage
microphone preamplifier, utilzing CineMag USA Transformers. Have no fear
of hurting the Beast, you can push it very hard into full-on distortion
if you wish, and these can sound quite nice on electric guitar, bass or
anything else that likes some grit.
- Single channel microphone preamplifier
- Custom USA CineMag transformers
- 71dB of gain
- Fully discrete signal path
- 2 discrete 6-pin socketed opamps
- Variable impedance input