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A-Designs Ventura 500 series mic preamp
Microphone preamp, DI and three-band equaliser. Solid-state discrete op-amp preamp with a Jensen input transformer and Cinemag output transformers, plus a parametric equaliser adapted from a Quad Eight design.
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