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$49.00
$2,044.00 USD
DACS Clarity MicAmp II - Two Channel Microphone Amplifier
If a microphone pre-amp adds anything more than clean gain to the audio signal on its way from the microphone to the recording medium, whatever that extra is, it then becomes an integral part of the recorded signal. This addition is extremely difficult to remove at a later stage. On the other hand, if anything is subtracted from the audio signal along the same path, it is irretrievably lost. No amount of post-production knob-twiddling can re-create the detail lost, or restore the dynamics flattened, by an inadequate mic pre.
So the ideal microphone amplifier should be designed to make sure that neither of these types of signal degradation occurs. It should be:
This ideal is very hard to achieve – but DACS talked to recording engineers; they said it’s what they want, so rather than try to make a feature out of a failing (“it’s not muddy, it’s warm” etc) the lab boffins got to work and developed a unique amplifier topology to provide it.
In addition to those necessary sonic features, it is also highly desirable for the mic preamp to have switched gain controls for easy recall of settings, easy to read metering so that level decisions can be made instantly, and both a phantom powered input for 48V mics and a non-powered input for ribbon mics, valve mics with their own power supply, and dynamics.
DACS Clarity MicAmp II Features: