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AEA_ TRP500

Product number: AEA_TRP500001

Ribbon preamp in API 500 format

Weight: 0.4 kg
Delivery time on request

The TRP500 is the first product in our 3rd generation of mic preamps. It is rather neutral, but differs from other "clean" preamps in its rich and musical tonal character. Optimized for ribbon microphones, the TRP500 offers up to 85 dB of gain. Like all AEA products, the TRP500 is 100 percent hand built in Pasadena, California from locally sourced parts. AEA is a family business with a small crew of skilled technicians, many of whom are musicians themselves.

AEA preamps
Passive ribbon microphones have a low output level. That's why they need a powerful preamp that amplifies the microphone signal accordingly while delivering high, pristine sound quality. Otherwise, the microphone signal may appear too soft or be noisy, for example when recording quiet acoustic guitars or strings. An effect that is even more noticeable when the microphone is farther away from the signal source or when there are long cable runs.
With AEA's purpose-built RPQ2, RPQ500, TRP500 and TRP2 preamps, you'll never again find a signal source too quiet to record with a ribbon mic. Because they offer you unsurpassed clean amplification and high impedance that gives your recordings the brilliance you expect. All AEA Ribbon preamps share the same topology and sound. The differences between the individual devices lie in the additional functions and formats.
"WE PUT THE SAME CARE IN OUR PREAMPS THAT WE PUT IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF OUR MICROPHONES: SOUND QUALITY COMES FIRST."
Wes Dooley (founder of AEA)
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