The Perfect Pre for the Tone-obsessed Engineer

Hey, there are a lot of worse obsessions to have than tone, right? And speaking of tone - you want it, and the Universal Audio 4-710d delivers... over and over and over again. That's right, this baby's got four of Universal Audio's revolutionary 710 "Twin-finity" preamps in it. Every few years, people jump from one camp to the other, either loving tubes or freaking out about FETs again. Yeesh! Luckily, the 4-710d swings both ways. Each of its channels has got both a 310V tube preamp and a class A FET circuit built in - plus a JFET DI, oh yeah! With the twist one one little knob, you can go all the way from totally FET to totally tube, dialing in the snappy bite against the warm glow as you see fit. The result is freaking awesome!

And it just gets better from there. You see, each channel also has an 1176-based compressor/soft limiter built right in, so you get the wicked punch or smooth leveling you want, right at the source. Plus, this bad boy's got four channels of 24-bit/192kHz digital conversion built right in. It just doesn't get more awesome than that... oh wait, yes it does. The entire 4-710d costs LESS than three 710s put together. Talk about a no brainer. The only question is, do you get yours shipped to the house or the studio?

Universal Audio 4-710d 4-channel Microphone Preamplifier Features at a Glance:

• Phase-aligned "Tone-blending" of tube and solid state
  
• Newly designed 1176-style compression/soft-limiting circuit per mic channel
  
• Monolithic balanced output stage
  
• Dual gain stages
  
• Balanced send/return inserts
  
• Discrete JFET DI with 2.2M ohm ultra-hi-Z impedance
  
• 70dB+ of gain, +48V phantom power, pad (15dB), phase invert, and low cut filter (75Hz)
  
• Front panel Hi-Z Input (switched from Mic/Line)
  
• Rear Panel XLR Mic Input, XLR Line Input and XLR Line Output
  
• Digital output via dual ADAT optical or AES/EBU DB25
  
• 8 channels of high-quality 24-bit/192kHz A/D conversion

Universal Audio 4-710d Specs: Preamp Type Hybrid Number of Channels 8 Frequency Response 20Hz-20kHz Phantom Power Yes EQ No Compression Yes Analog Inputs 4 x XLR (Mic), 4 x 1/4" (Line), 4 x 1/4" (Hi-Z), 4 x 1/4" (Line - CH 5-8) Analog Outputs 4 x XLR Digital Inputs No Digital Inputs Digital Outputs 1 x AES/EBU (DB25), 2 x ADAT (Optical) Other I/O 1 x Word Clock In (BNC), 1 x Word Clock Out (BNC) Computer Connectivity No Computer Connectivity Rackmount Spaces 2U Height 3.5" Depth 12" Width 19" Weight 11.5 lbs.