Sonic Farm have consistently impressed me with their musically involving range of mic preamps, and their Xcalibur pentode-valve 'saturation preamp', launched at Summer NAMM 2016, was designed from the ground up specifically to provide a broad range of controllable distortion while tracking. But sometimes it's just more inspiring to add this coloration at source, and that's very much the raison d'etre of Canadian company Sonic Farm. But hand in hand with that goes the loss of what are often musically attractive distortions, and so all manner of plug-ins and hardware devices have appeared to allow saturation and distortion to be applied in a more controllable way. The amazing technical progress of the last 25 years or so has delivered audio equipment that's reached an incredible level of accuracy and transparency, which is great for all of us. With its ability to deliver anything from super-subtle saturation to downright despicable distortion, could this be the only valve preamp you'll ever need?
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