Warm Audio WA12 MKII Discrete Microphone Preamp (Orange)
The engineers and artists at Warm Audio design their products out of need, and the world needed a super-clean preamp with character, and so the WA12 MKII was conceived. A quality preamp with high headroom, low noise, and an astounding amount of character, the WA12 MKII was designed around authentic Cinemag transformers and a custom discrete op-amp designed in-house at Warm, the X731.
The WA12 MKII’s design allows you to push the amp and transformers for a subtle saturation, and a special tone button on the front panel switches input impedance from 150 to 600 ohms, changing both the tone of the Hi-Z and microphone inputs, allowing you to experiment with the MKII’s exciting sonic potential. The WA12 MKII was designed to warm, color, and shape your signal with a true analog signal path that’s easy to use and exciting to hear.
WA12 MKII Features
- Fully discrete design
- Utilizes 6-pin socket opamp, can be switched for tone/flavor
- 20dB pad, tone switch, phase switch, phantom power
- Balanced outputs
- Output attenuation after cinemag transformer
- Hi-Z input that actually uses preamp signal path
- Inputs: 1x XLR & 1x TRS Hi-Z input
- Outputs: 1x XLR / 1x TRS
- Dimensions: 10.5” x 8.5” x 1.75”
- Weight: 1 lb