WALRUS Audio Mantle Bass Preamp

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Product Features

• Premium preamp and DI for electric bass, created in close collaboration with Ian Martin Allison.
• Designed to give your instrument an impeccable sonic foundation for live, studio, or home use.
• Built around proprietary, custom-wound Sapphire transformers, developed through extensive research.
• Delivers authoritative low-end and midrange push reminiscent of a classic Neve circuit.
• Airy, articulate top end inspired by revered API preamp architecture.
• Provides a harmonically rich canvas that elevates your playing.
• Preserves every nuance and detail of your instrument.
• High-impedance JFET input buffer for articulate, touch-sensitive response and exceptional clarity.
• Transformer-based gain offers up to +23 dB of amplification.
• Delivers clean headroom to magnetic, harmonically rich drive.
• Custom-tailored Bass and Treble EQ co-designed with Ian Martin Allison.
• Utilizes a sophisticated blend of shelving, bandpass, and selectable LPF/HPF behaviors.
• Transformer-balanced XLR output ensures expansive headroom and uncompressed dynamics.
• Delivers commanding low-frequency extension for studio and live use.
• Balanced XLR DI out and unbalanced 1/4" output for flexible routing.
• Run an amp and FOH or recording interface simultaneously.
• Active/Passive pad and Ground Lift switches for enhanced compatibility.
• Reduces noise and increases headroom when using active basses.
• High headroom +24V internal power supply for clean dynamics and effortless low-end.
• Powered by 9V DC, 500 mA, center-negative (power supply not included).
• Designed and assembled in the USA.