Unleash the Beast!
The TB12 Tone Beast Black is a fully professional preamp design with loads of gain that can effortlessly capture an array of sources very well. It is a swiss army knife full of options and tones. With top notch CineMag transformers and multiple discrete signal paths, it's hard to beat the Tone Beast's big, bold, fully-professional sound at this price.
The Tone Beast Blackis a mic pre that likes to be pushed and when pushed will colorize your signal ever so sweetly. The 2 opamps and 2 output transformers at the flip of their switches won't appear to be much different, but as one drives the pre into harmonic distortion, the unique character of each of these components becomes apparent. The Tone Beast Black is customizable and allows users to source and swap in their own opamps. The output control on the TB12 allows you to limit the signal exiting the preamp even when pushing the gain to really hot levels, giving you maximum control.
When designing the TB12Tone Beast Black, Warm's goal was to make a microphone preamplifier affordable and jam packed full of options, without compromising the quality and design parameters that make this type of microphone preamplifier so desirable.
Premium Components:
The TB12 “Tone Beast Black” is a fully discrete, high-voltage microphone preamplifier, utilzing CineMag USA Transformers. Have no fear of hurting the Beast, you can push it very hard into full-on distortion if you wish, and these can sound quite nice on electric guitar, bass or anything else that likes some grit.
The different component options in the TB12 are subtle,but when driven into saturation are noticeable and can make a big difference to the way your final mix will sound. Home-based musicians and professional studios alike will find the Tone Beast Black to be an extremely powerful and fully professional piece of gear that is capable of warming and shaping signals/mixes in a way that is very pleasing to the ear.
Features
- Mic, Instrument & Line Inputs
- Up to 71 dB of Gain
- Output Gain Attenuator
- Switchable Discrete Op-Amp
- Switchable Input Impedance
- Switchable Output Transformer
- Switchable Capacitor
- 48V, Polarity Switch, 20 dB Pad
Warm Audio TB12 Black Tone Beast Microphone Preamplifier
Specifications
Warm Audio TB12
Type | Discrete 312 Preamp Design with Coupled CineMag Transformers |
Input | 1 x Front-Panel XLR Microphone Input 1 x Front-Panel 1/4" / 6.35 mm Hi-Z Instrument Input 1 x Rear-Panel XLR Microphone Input 1 x Rear-Panel 1/4" / 6.35 mm TRS Line Input |
Output | 1 x Rear-Panel Balanced XLR Line Putput 1 x Rear-Panel Balanced 1/4" / 6.35 mm TRS Line Output |
Gain | 71 dB |
Transformer | Selectable Steel or 50% Nickel CineMag Output Transformers Selectable Transformer Bypass |
Op Amp | Selectable between 1731 and 918 Style; Socketed and Swappable with Your Choice of 2520 6-Pin Footprint Op Amps |
Impedance | Input Impedance: Switchable Between 150 and 600 Ohms (Labeled "Tone" on Front-Panel) |
Capacitors | Switchable between Tantalum and Electrolytic for Different Characters |
High-Pass Filter | 80 Hz |
Polarity Reverse | Yes |
Phantom Power | +48 V |
Output Attenuation | Yes; Allows for Saturation Flexibility of Both the Op Amps and Transformers |
Insert | 1 x 1/4" / 6.35 mm Insert Send 1 x 1/4" / 6.35 mm Insert Receive |
Pad | 20 dB |
VU Meter | LED |
Rack Units | 1 RU |
Power | External Line-Lump 24 VAC Power Transformer for Low Noise |
Dimensions (W x H) | 19 x 1.75" / 482.60 x 44.45 mm Depth: Not Specified by Manufacturer |
Weight | Not Specified by Manufacturer |
Packaging Info
Package Weight | 8.675 lb |
Box Dimensions (LxWxH) | 24.5 x 9.5 x 3.9" |