Alta Moda AM-30 Mic Preamp

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The Alta Moda AM30 is in a class of its own. Not contrived or cloned from other designs, the AM-30 is truly unique in its approach to microphone pre-amplification.

The Class-A transformerless electronics of the AM30 are fully discrete and wide bandwidth. Clean at lower gain settings, the AM-30 can be smoothly over-driven by increasing input level or gain. Where other preamps would harshly hard-clip when pushed, the AM-30 smoothly begins to saturate, adding rich, low-order harmonics to the signal.

With its exceptional performance on a wide range of sources such as guitars, drums, bass and vocals, the AM-30 delivers a sound that is big, punchy, bold and clear.

Its high input impedance and high headroom make the AM30 great on line level signals too; perfect for re-amping guitars or warming up previously recorded tracks and loops.

Like all Alta Moda Audio products, the AM-30 preamp is entirely hand-built in the USA and uses some of the finest components available.

An 11-position rotary switch sets overall gain of the first amplifier stage. Unlike other transformerless designs, this first stage has soft, even-order harmonic overload characteristics, similar to a vacuum tube triode.