SPL GainStation 8

SPL GainStation 8 Description

Thanks to exceptional headroom throughout its design and the superb signal regulation of its limters, the GainStation8 is the perfect front end for multi-track recordings or AD converters.

Nowadays typical preamps are designed on an either-or basis either solid state or tube. With these designs the engineer has a non integrated and thus often frustrating choice between a pure, neutral solid state recording or one unavoidably influenced by tubes. While the engineer may find solutions for one application with one microphone, a preamplifier for different situations, mics and instruments must provide a commensurate range of choiceslike the GainStation preamps. A combination of 63dB solid state and an independently controllable 26dB tube circuitry (which can also be deactivated) ensures a complete sound palette panorama. In any situation the engineer now can achieve his goals with one front end for best-of-both-worlds results.

SPL GainStation 8 Features

• Separated Solid state and tube preamps. The tube preamp can be used additionally to the solid state stage to add tube saturations, for clean recordings it can be switched off.
• Peak/FET Limiter
• Switchable Mic Input Impedance (200 Ohms, 1,2 & 10 kOhms)
• Custom-designed and built, fully discrete, class A op-amps (no off-the-shelf stuff here). The GainStation's op-amps feature 60-Volt operating voltagetwice as high as most common op-ampsfor an incredible dynamic range.
• All switching functions are handled by encapsulated relays with gold-plated contacts.
• No-compromise, external power supply with extensive additional shielding and seven separately wound and regulated voltages
• Lundahl input transforner option, also for single channels or channel pairs