Key Features
- Perfect solution for vocals, drums and percussion
- Passive design means no batteries or power cables
- Add an abundance of saturation and colour to your sound
- Suitable for ribbon and condenser microphones
- Handmade in Spain using premium components
Tierra Audio Flavour Preamp, Truffle Overview
The Tierra Audio Flavour Preamp, Truffle is an all-analog inline preamplifier that boasts a huge dose of saturation and colour to your instrument or vocals. Hand-crafted in Spain using audio-optimised components such as Carnhill and Lundahl input transformers, the Truffle boasts an all-analog circuitry to add warmth and depth to your sound. Suitable for dynamic and passive ribbon microphones, the Truffle will boost your signal level to add a rich, harmonic and natural saturation with a gentle treble roll-off that is perfectly suited for adding overdrive and colour to a vocal performance, or to add crunch to a clean guitar.
Just as the name suggests, the Flavour Preamp, Truffle works just the same as when looking for a specific flavour while cooking your favourite dish. When used in the right places with the right instrument, your sound and performance can be lifted to new heights, filled with character and flavour to suit the needs of your music.
Ultra-compact and portable, the Tierra Audio Truffle is the perfect companion to the gigging musician. Designed to fit in any case or gigbag, you can carry your signature flavour with you wherever you go without the need for any batteries or mains power thanks to the passive design. Use it on stage, in the studio, during rehearsals, at home for your livestreams, or wherever you may be in the world.
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View Full DescriptionDaring and bold sound
Like its namesake, the Flavour Preamp Truffle is an adventurous and fabled sound that brings an abundance of saturation to your sound. Musical and harmonically rich, the Truffle's saturation circuit borders classic preamp distortion of an overdriven analog mixing console, dirtying up your sound while retaining legible and articulate. A fantastic choice for singers, the Truffle lends itself to powerful vocal performances by giving your voice an edge to help cut through a dense and heavy mix. Not limited to singers, the Truffle sounds great on percussion and drum shells, giving them saturation and bite that helps add punch to your sound. Certainly, a sound that may need to be used sparingly, the Truffle isn't a flavour for everyone, but get it on the right source and you will quickly realise what you're missing from your sound.
Powerful and portable
Take your sound with you wherever you go thanks to the ultra-compact design that's ideal for storing in your gigbag, backpack, case, or wherever else your gear might be stored. Designed to fit even inside the back pocket of your favourite pair of jeans, the Tierra Audio Truffle packs a huge punch in a small enclosure. The perfect choice for the modern musician, the passive design means that you won't need to power the unit with mains or with batteries, meaning you can use the Truffle on stage, in the recording studio, at home during your livestreams or even while travelling on the go!
Premium quality components
Hand-built in Spain by expert engineers and designers, the Flavour Preamp, Truffle is constructed with studio-grade components that provides crystal clear sound quality. Extensive research and testing has lead to a specially selected Lundahl input transformer being utilised to provide maximum gain clarity in the Truffle Preamp. The transformer amplifies the signal by passing it through a copper winding around a metal core, this creates the amplification of the signal and when paired with the germanium diodes, you can expect to hear lots of musical harmonics and colour that gives the Truffle its signature sound. After being carefully constructed, each unit is calibrated before shipping to establish that the gain curves, signal to noise ratio and THD levels are up to standard, ensuring you get the best performance from your Truffle as possible.
Please note: If you want to use the Flavours Preamps with condenser microphones or with active (phantom-powered) ribbon microphones, you will have to use an external phantom power source to feed your microphone. Phantom Power will not reach the microphone with a Flavour Preamp.
Features
- Hand-crafted in Madrid, Spain
- Ideal for dynamic and passive ribbon microphones
- Adds a huge range of saturation and distortion to your sound
- All analog circuitry
- Each unit is calibrated before shipping to ensure quality control
- Compact and portable
- Passive design means you don't need to plug in a power cable or batteries
- Specially selected premium Lundahl input transformer
- Output signal is a boosted, balanced microphone level output
Specification
- Boosted gain: +32 dB.
- Frequency filter: Treble roll-off
- Harmonic distortion: A lot of musical distortion provided by its exclusive germanium diodes
- Input transformer: Lundahl
- Product code: TIERRA-TRUFFLE
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