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pre2 All-Tube Preamp

Sonic Nirvana Times Two

As our flagship product and focal point of our Vintage Modern design approach, the new pre2 combines everything we know about guitar preamp design into a single 1U rack space. Use it as a true preamp by plugging it into a power amp (or the effects return of any amplifier), or think of it as an effect and plug it directly into your favorite amp's input. Either way, you won't believe what the pre2's rich saturation and warm harmonics will do for your tone!

Overall Features

  • Two channel all-tube preamp with Vintage clean channel and Modern overdrive channel
  • Each channel has independent circuitry with no shared components
  • All-tube design features 3 premium 12AX7 tubes running at very high plate voltages
  • Designed to be a true preamp or to drive the input of any standard amplifier
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  • Features two independent, discreet channels with silent mechanical channel switching
  • Each channel has its own volume and tone controls
  • 12AX7 tubes are interchangeable with 12AT7, 12AY7, and 12AU7 types for different sounds and amounts of gain
  • Hand made in the USA with premium hand selected components
  • Limited lifetime warranty

Vintage Channel Features

  • Vintage channel is clean, but hot enough to overdrive any tube amp at higher settings
  • Utilizes both triodes of a dedicated 12AX7 tube running at high plate voltages to maximize harmonic structure and content
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  • Dedicated volume and interactive vintage style tone control reminiscent of the tweed era in behavior and voicing

Modern Channel Features

  • Designed to focus on warm, saturated overdrive, but does achieve clipping distortion at higher settings
  • Employs 4 gain stages in 2 dedicated 12AX7 tubes
  • Covers broad spectrum of overdriven tones from clean to modern high gain
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  • Full treble, middle, bass (TMB) tone stack offers an extended range and depth of control
  • Gain control range is extended to go from crystal clean at settings of 1 or 2 to beautiful blues saturation between 3 and 5 to classic rock distortion tones between 6 and 7 to modern shred at 8 and above

Optional Features

  • Want the incredibly smooth sound only vintage type mustard capacitors can give? Opt for the SoZo capacitor upgrade!
  • Like the idea of the pre2, but want it to focus on distortion more than overdrive? Order the Full Shred mod to make the Modern channel the same as the shred2 high gain preamp!

Online Ordering

pre2 1U Rack Preamp $499
Full Shred Mod $49
SoZo Capacitor Upgrade $49
Footswitch $24

 

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Specifications

Front Controls

Vintage Channel
Volume
Tone

Modern Channel
Gain
Volume
Treble
Middle
Bass

Switching

Channel select footswitch
Channel select toggle switch
Power switch

Indicators

Blue LED (power)
Green LED (Vintage channel)
Red LED (Modern channel)

Input

1/4" instrument jack
1/4" footswitch jack

Output

1/4" line level output jack

Power Supply

120VAC 60Hz

Fuse

1 Amp Slo-Blo


Components

Power Transformers

Triad

Tubes

JJ/Tesla 12AX7 (3)

Tube Sockets

Ceramic silver plated

Capacitors

Mallory or SoZo

Electrolytics

Xicon high voltage

Resistors

Xicon carbon film

Jacks

Cliff metal ferrule

Switches & Relays

Omron

Potentiometers

Carbon composition

Hookup Wire

Oxygen free silver tinned Teflon

Shielded Wire

OF silver tinned braided Teflon

Solder

Silver content

Chassis

2mm anodized aluminum

Faceplates

Laser engraved Alumamark
   

 

 

 

 
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