The 5 Best Stereo Mic pres (2023 reviews)

It is important to have the well suited stereo mic pre. In the following post, we will help you to select the best stereo mic pres.

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ART Great Pre amp Buy: READ REVIEW

ART Stereo Mic Pre Buy: READ REVIEW

Rockville Stereo Mic Pre Buy: READ REVIEW

Phonpreamps.Com Stereo Mic Pre Buy: READ REVIEW

Warm Audio Stereo Mic Pre Buy: READ REVIEW

ART Great Pre amp

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The art great pre amp is suitable and reliable and fits well with your daily purpose. The Mid Side recording is very powerful and fun to use and your signal will always be in phase. It has enough versatility for just about any mic. It has all the gain you'll ever need and the impedance control can totally flip the sound of your mic from open and large to tight and in your face. It's a switch on both channels that raise the voltage going through the tubes creating more saturation.

The +20db switch is very helpful with dynamic mics, and this unit sees a lot of SM57's. The crunch that happens once you drive the tube sounds beautiful with guitar, especially if you're amp modeling instead of going with the real deal. This amp has an impedance knob which will help you achieve different tonal qualities of the preamp. It comes with a couple Chinese tubes.

• Great preamp for beginners or pros
• Buzzing or noise in general, sounds great with replacement tubes
• Great for the small studio on a budget
• Distortion and runs extremely clean until it reaches a point of saturated clipping

ART Stereo Mic Pre

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The art stereo mic pre is suitable and reliable and fits well with your daily usage. Even the stock tubes sound decent enough on vocals, but where this excels is as a bass preamp. It features a high quality d converter which offers digital connectivity on s/pdif, adat, or aes/ebu outputs. The preamp is also flexible enough to handle more difficult sources like ribbon mics, thanks to the adjustable input impedance. Because of the full signal passing the tube, it truly flavors the signal with that good tube warmth everyone likes.

The variable impedance feature and continuously variable low-pass are great for dialing in the exact tone from your mic and removing unwanted low-end junk. The weight specification are especially important for people who will travel with this equipment on flight as there are weight restrictions. If you trim the inputs carefully, the MPA-II is also very graceful at handling overloads, sending the tubes into overdrive rather than giving you a nasty hard clipping sound. It is a definite upgrade, and adds nice warmth and tube color.

• Variable input impedance for flexible microphone voicing
• You can really dial in and get alot out of your mics
• New and hot release

Rockville Stereo Mic Pre

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Next on the list, we've got yet another pre that manages to win our hearts. It's the rockville stereo mic pre and it's widely considered as pre that has the most suitable features. These are the first part of your signal and a good pre-amp is essential to having great sound quality. This will work with any of your favorite daw’s such as pro tools or ableton live. The interface is 2-way and you can use it as an input playback device or as an output recording device. There is also usb playback so you can play back audio saved on a thumb drive.

The Built in USB/computer interface allows you to record the master output to your daw or to play songs from your favorite software on your computer. There are Amazing controls and there is a high quality 3 band eq so you can adjust and fine tune your sound. It is perfect for home audio use as well as for some pro audio applications in between sets etc. It is also a front combo jack with selectable mic/line.

• Built in reliable bluetooth audio playback with long range
• Headphone output for listening or monitoring
• Top of the line professional preamp with low noise and high sound quality

Phonpreamps.Com Stereo Mic Pre

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We know from years of feedback from readers, customers and amazon sellers, what most people want in a convenient and appropriate pre. The phonpreamps.com stereo mic pre is exactly that - it's a simple pre that hits all the right notes. If you are looking for the easiest step to create high quality stereo home recording definitely go with this preamp. This preamp features stellar phono specs and performance, then adds on top of that the ability to also accept two microphones, either electret ( condensor) or dynamic, to allow stereo live recording. The input DIN jack is MM phono input for European tables such as B&O, while the output DIN is line level. It includes ac adaptor, rca cable and miniplug adaptor. Classy retail packaging makes this a super gift choice for the budding musician or recording enthusiast.

• Works great, nice quality 110/220 switching power adapter
• The simplest way for stereo recording
• Switchable for condensor or dynamic mikes

Warm Audio Stereo Mic Pre

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It provides 4 channels of classic american console preamps in a sleek 1ru design. It can be user-replaced with most 6 pin, discrete op-amps for varying flavor & tone. A tone switch (transformer input impedance) is also available on each channel, which allows you to choose between a warm and punchy classic console tone, or go for a more open & neutral sound. It is available on every channel for precise control and creative gain staging. It has all of the features one would expect from this style of preamp.

• Fully discrete, transformer coupled, through-hole component topology
• Good brand reputation