How It Was Recorded

Gear · preamp

Cranesong Flamingo

Two-channel microphone preamp. Discrete Class A solid-state design with transformerless balanced inputs and outputs; switches can add iron to the path or change the amplifier type for more colour.

Source, read 15 Nov 2026

Records it appears on · 1

  • The E.N.D.

    The Black Eyed Peas · Album, 2009

    • Vocal overdubs (album) · Input chainVerifiedMicrophone preamp for the vocal overdubs, with its levels set very conservatively.Settings: Levels set very conservatively

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No plugin suggested. No plugin models this preamp. It is a clean, transformerless Class A design meant to add very little of its own, so there is no fair software stand-in.

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