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The Snow Petrel

Price ex. VAT

3 150 EUR

Price incl. 21% VAT

3 812 EUR

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Unveil the beauty of your favorite ribbon microphones in the most natural way, revealing sparkling clear highs down to harmonically rich lows.
 
Designed originally for use with the Coles 4038 as a super-clean low noise unit, after extensive field tests in UK, Norway and France, we’ve found it sounds exceptional with ANY microphone including the classic Neumann U 87, perhaps because:
 
We use extra-low noise valves with NO solid state impurities in the audio path, plus VERY special Sowter in and out transformers
 
Input impedance is higher than usual to preserve clarity and can be tailored to individual mics with the Hi/Lo and Pad switches
 
Incredibly musical and progressive saturation for distortion lovers when overdriven and by employing the fine and coarse attenuators
 
Controls include  Gain, from 40 to 75 dB, switched, HPF to reduce “proximity effect” and “Air” to add that extra clarity.
 
Carefully hand made and tested in Harlow, England   
- Extra-low noise valves with NO solid state impurities in the audio path;
- Sowter's VERY special balancing transformers for the inputs and outputs;
- Higher than usual input impedance to preserve clarity;
- Hi/Lo and Pad switches to tailor the input impedance to suit individual mics;
- +48V Phantom power available;
- All valve Class A amplification;
- Controls include Switched Gain, from 40 to 75dB; HPF to reduce 'proximity effect' and 'Air' to add that extra clarity;
- Housed in a 2U 19" rack mounted unit.
- HPF: slope of 6dB/octave and -3dB attenuation at the selected frequency.
- Air: set to 10 results in +5dB at 10kHz with a peak at 22kHz
- Input impedance: +5 dB na 10kHz s max. na 22 kHz
- Output impedance: @0 Atten: 250Ω // @ -7dB: 700 Ω // @ -15dB: 270 Ω
- maximum output level: >+26dB
- power: 30W
- weight: 6kg




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