Useful Arts Swarm 4-channel Microphone Preamp/DI

What Do You Call a Gang of Hornets?

A tonic for sterile digital recordings

Audio interfaces have come a long way — they are more affordable and more capable than ever before! And while most feature high-quality preamps, they can often lack the character of old-school analog consoles or standalone hardware units. Swarm comes to the rescue by providing an affordable way to inject your tracks with true analog vibe. Fat, thick, colorful, and characterful — these are all words engineers Sweetwater have used to describe Swarm. Take your recordings one step closer to “radio-ready” with the Swarm 4-channel preamp and DI from Useful Arts!

From polite to aggressive: dial it in with the color control

Unlike preamps that are designed to maintain a fixed distortion-to-gain ratio, Swarm is armed with a color control that puts this artistic choice in your hands. At a setting of zero, the preamps sound squeaky clean — polite, even. Dimed, the color control pumps up the gain and increases harmonic saturation,

Useful Arts Swarm 4-channel Microphone Preamp/DI Features:

• 4 independent Hornet preamps in a single 1U rackmount chassis
• Color control saturates your signal and sweetens harmonics
• Additional features include highpass filter, 22dB pad for loud sources, and polarity reverse switch
• Cinemag input transformer and JFET DI boast a warm, hi-fi sound
• 48V phantom power for powering condenser mics, active ribbon mics, and mic boosters

Tech Specs

• Preamp Type:Solid State
• Number of Channels:4
• Phantom Power:Yes
• Pads:-22dB
• Polarity Switch:Yes
• EQ:Highpass Filter
• Rack Spaces:1U
• Manufacturer Part Number:Swarm

Useful Arts Swarm 4-channel Microphone Preamp/DI

4-channel Microphone/Instrument Preamp with 48V Phantom Power, Highpass Filter, Pad, Phase Control, and Color Control

$1,799.00

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