ART Tube MP Microphone Preamp

by ART

Product Details

• Item Weight: 2.6 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 2.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• ASIN: B0002GZZNY
• Item model number: TUBEMP
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
  • #23 in Electronics > Accessories & Supplies > Microphones > Preamps
• Date first available at Amazon.com: October 2, 2001

Product Description

The Tube MP is a tube mircrophone preamp that offers a superb level of sound quality, using a special tube and integrated circuit design combined with a straightforward user interface to quickly and easily access all of its many features. The main application of the Tube MP is as a microphone preamplifier but you can use it to interface any instrument directly to a console, amplifier, signal processor or recorder or it can be used a direct box, particularly for bass guitar.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great for the beginning musician, April 18, 2007

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A. Pinnick (College Station TX) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: ART Tube MP Microphone Preamp (Electronics)

While I couldn't recommend this product for someone wanting to do professional recoding, I am, overall, very pleased with it. I have a cheap mic, and this preamp dramatically improved the sound, and reduced backgroud hum. I really like the seperate imput and output controls, and the ability to run either 1/4 or XLR inputs is nice. It does lack some of the features that I have seen on more expensive models, and most of the tech is solid state. But again, for the price it is a nice little addition to your home studio.
If you are a beginner that just wants to play around with music recording/production, this is a simple to use product that will work great.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderfull!!, January 6, 2008

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K. Olson "The real deal." (Western WA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: ART Tube MP Microphone Preamp (Electronics)

This is a not a super high end preamp. If you take some time and learn its functions, it works very well. I use it for some live vocals that needed a little more presence. If you are getting noise then your not using it right, or you got one that was damaged in shipping.

For the price I would have to say This is WELL worth it.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars suggested improvements, November 4, 2007

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Dennis Hinkamp "offcenter" (Logan, Utah USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: ART Tube MP Microphone Preamp (Electronics)

I like the price and it does warm up a relatively low-priced powered mic but is it asking too much to have a simple ON/OFF switch? Why do you have to unplug it to turn it off?