A Cost-effective Mic Pre for Your 500 Series Rack
Are you hunting for a reasonably priced yet high-quality microphone preamp for your 500 Series rack? If so, the Fredenstein Artistic MicPre SE is an excellent-sounding mic pre with class-leading performance and numerous great features. For starters, this 500 Series module is built around a fully discrete op-amp, yielding 65dB of clean gain, and it boasts a top-notch high-impedance instrument input. You get switchable +48V phantom power, a -20dB pad, a low-cut filter, and a polarity invert. An ultra-precise, multi-colored LED peak meter rounds out the Artistic MicPre SE's generous feature set. To top it off, the Artistic MicPre SE isn't cloned from an older design; it's a completely new circuit developed by Fredenstein's crack team of German-American engineers and manufactured using cost-effective surface-mount technology.
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A feature-packed mic preamp module
The Artistic MicPre SE packs a lot of functionality into a compact 500 Series module. Its 2-Mohm, front-panel high-impedance DI accepts both balanced and unbalanced signals, and its rear microphone input automatically disengages when the DI is in use. This mic preamp 500 Series module includes a -20dB pad for taming extra-hot signals and a low-cut filter for eliminating unwanted low-frequency mud. You also get switchable polarity for solving phase issues, plus +48V phantom power for your condenser microphones. Here at Sweetwater, we're impressed by the Artistic MicPre SE's 8-LED peak meter, which vaunts a 50dB range, supplying you with a precise at-a-glance reading of the preamp's operating conditions.
Fredenstein Artistic MicPre SE 500 Series Module Features:
- A mic preamp 500 Series module with class-leading performance and tons of great features
- Designed around a new circuit and manufactured using cost-effective surface-mount technology
- Fully discrete op-amp yields 65dB of clean-sounding gain
- 2-Mohm, front-panel high-impedance DI accepts both balanced and unbalanced signals
- -20dB pad tames extra-hot signals
- Low-cut filter eliminates unwanted low-frequency mud
- Switchable polarity solves phase issues
- +48V phantom power for your condenser microphones
- Ultra-precise, multi-colored LED peak meter
