Warm AudioWA12 MKII Discrete Microphone Preamp (Orange)
Warm Audio WA12 MKII Discrete Microphone Preamp (Orange)
The engineers and artists at Warm Audio design their products out of need, and the world needed a super-clean preamp with character, and so the WA12 MKII was conceived. A quality preamp with high headroom, low noise, and an astounding amount of character, the WA12 MKII was designed around authentic Cinemag transformers and a custom discrete op-amp designed in-house at Warm, the X731.
The WA12 MKII’s design allows you to push the amp and transformers for a subtle saturation, and a special tone button on the front panel switches input impedance from 150 to 600 ohms, changing both the tone of the Hi-Z and microphone inputs, allowing you to experiment with the MKII’s exciting sonic potential. The WA12 MKII was designed to warm, color, and shape your signal with a true analog signal path that’s easy to use and exciting to hear.
WA12 MKII Features
- Fully discrete design
- Utilizes 6-pin socket opamp, can be switched for tone/flavor
- 20dB pad, tone switch, phase switch, phantom power
- Balanced outputs
- Output attenuation after cinemag transformer
- Hi-Z input that actually uses preamp signal path
- Inputs: 1x XLR & 1x TRS Hi-Z input
- Outputs: 1x XLR / 1x TRS
- Dimensions: 10.5” x 8.5” x 1.75”
- Weight: 1 lb