TubePre v2

At PreSonus, we’ve been designing preamps for a long time, and we always focus on audio quality first. So when we decided to upgrade our popular TubePre V2, we focused on improving an already high-quality sound without jacking up the price. Like the original TubePre, the new version is a fully professional tube preamp, with a dual-servo (no capacitors) gain stage that lets you boost the program signal to smoking hot levels without significantly increasing the background noise. Discrete components and high-voltage operation offer dynamic range and detail not found in other single-channel tube preamps in its class.

But the TubePre V2 provides an even wider palette of sound options, and a much more focused tube saturation, than the original TubePre. It has been upgraded to employ PreSonus popular XMAX Class A solid-state preamp, which is followed in the signal path by a 12AX7 vacuum-tube stage. Twist the TubePre V2 Drive saturation control to add the color that only a hand-selected 12AX7 vacuum tube can deliver – from gentle warmth to total fuzz.

Features:

• XMAX Class A preamp input stage
• 12AX7 dual-servo vacuum tube output stage
• Input Gain control
• 48V phantom power
• 80 Hz high-pass filter
• -20 dB pad
• Instrument input select
• Polarity-reverse switch
• Backlit VU meter
• Clip LED
• Input/Output
  – 1 unbalanced 1/4″ instrument input
  – 1 balanced XLR mic input
  – 1 unbalanced 1/4″ line output
  – 1 balanced XLR line output

• Compact 1/3U rack-mount chassis
• External 12 VDC, 1A power supply