Presonus TubePre V2 Blue

Description

Presonus TubePre V2 Blue

Compact, affordable, and tough enough for serious gigging, the PreSonus® TubePre V2 professional single-channel tube preamplifier is a great-sounding tool you’ll use on a variety of sources, including guitars, basses, and microphones. The signal path features one of PreSonus’ famous Class A XMAX solid-state preamps followed by a 12AX7 vacuum tube that is hand-selected and carefully tested for optimum audio performance. Dial in the Drive saturation control to add just the right amount of tube distortion to guitars, basses, or mic signals. Go lightly for gentle warmth or go all out for a solid crunch.

A dual-servo (no capacitors) gain stage lets you boost the signal to smoking levels without significantly increasing the noise. Discrete components and high-voltage operation deliver a dynamic range and detail not found in other single-channel tube preamplifiers in its class. Also onboard are a high-pass filter, phantom power, polarity reverse, and a backlit VU meter.

The TubePre V2’s rear panel sports separate unbalanced ¼-inch and balanced, XLR mic inputs and unbalanced ¼-inch and balanced XLR line outputs. Use it as a straight tube preamp or as a dynamite direct box (DI) for guitars and basses. It’s housed in a rugged chassis, small enough to take anywhere, or it can be screw-mounted to a standard rack tray.

Specifications

1 unbalanced ¼-inch and 1 balanced XLR line output

48V phantom power

80 Hz highpass filter

Polarity-reverse switch

Backlit VU meter and clip LED

Compact ⅓U rack-mountable chassis

External 12 VDC, 1A power supply