Description

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.

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. 

The different component options in the TB12 are subtle, but when driven into saturation are noticeable and can make a big difference to the way your final mix will sound. Home-based musicians and professional studios alike will find the Tone Beast Black to be an extremely powerful and fully professional piece of gear that is capable of warming and shaping signals/mixes in a way that is very pleasing to the ear.

Specifications

• Both steel and 50% nickel cinemag output transformers 
• Transformer bypass switch 
• Discrete opamp selection, a 1731(vintage) and 918(cleaner)
• Impedance switch between 150 and 600 ohms input impedance
• 2 meg ohm true hi-z input 
• 80hz hipass filter
• Polarity reverse
• Premium grade CineMag usa transformers
• Output attenuation allows for saturation flexibility of both opamps and transformers
• ¼" insert for the use of inline compressors, eq's etc
• -20db pad
• LED vu meter
• Capacitor selection between tantalum and electrolytic for different characters

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