Warm Audio WA-MPX

A must-have for any purist, the Warm Audio WA-MPX preamp proves that there's no need to remortgage the house to gain access to sweet, valve-coated sound. This unit has been based on the classic AMPEX 351 tape valve amplifier that, in the fifties and sixties, was famously teamed up with a tape machine designed by none-other-than Les Paul to provide a neat route to high-quality audio in the professional recording studios of the time. And the rest, as they say, is history. To get a taste of this preamp's achievements, you need only look at the work of names like Les Paul, Elvis Presley, Bing Crosby, Nat King Cole and Roy Orbinson, but even big-hitters like nineties alt-rock producer Steve Albini are still massive AMPEX 351 devotees. An Authentic 531-Style Valve Microphone Preamp The preamp section of the Warm Audio WA-MPX has been equipped with three valves that have been paired with custom-made CineMag transformers. This combo is exactly what delivers the unmistakable analogue quality of