Cranborne Audio Camden 500 - 500 Series Preamp and Processor
Description
Camden 500 - 500 Series Preamp And Signal Processor
Astoundingly transparent and detailed 500 series mic, line, and hi-z preamp with mojo - two analogue saturation styles that emulate vintage valve and transformer effects. Put simply, Camden 500 is the most astoundingly clean, linear, and transparent preamp you’ve ever heard. But it can also be the most colourful and characterful at the turn of a dial.
Camden 500 was designed from the ground-up to be the ultimate front-end for the modern studio and engineer and to withstand the rigours of modern workflow and production techniques. It features a completely original, custom-designed preamp topology that achieves stunning low-noise and low-distortion performance as well as frequency and phase linearity at all gain settings. The sum result is -129.5dB EIN (150ohm, unweighted), THD+N as low as 0.0002%, frequency response of ±0.7dB from 5Hz to 200kHz at max gain and <2° phase shift @ 20Hz – 20kHz.
For moments when that extra bit of preamp character is required, rather than use a transformer and learn to live with its sonic drawbacks, Cranborne Audio developed Mojo - two discrete analogue saturation styles that transform Camden 500 into the fattest, warmest, and most characterful preamp in your arsenal - all at the turn of a dial. Perhaps best of all and unlike transformer and other legacy designs, Mojo can be subtle, it can also be exaggerated, but it can also be bypassed when complete transparency is required for the session.
Key Features:
- Fully-discrete, transformerless design featuring custom ‘Camden’ preamp topology designed by Cranborne Audio’s Director of Engineering - Edward Holmes
- Optimised Input Impedance and input headroom for Mic, Line, and HI-Z sources
- Optimised for and fully-compliant with the 500-series format
- Audio performance at the near-theoretical limits of noise, distortion, and phase/frequency linearity at all gain settings
- RGB Signal Level LED with integrated Clip indicator
- Unique 48v status LED
- Mojo analogue saturation circuits with variable control, true bypass, and 2 discrete styles - Thump and Cream
- Thump excites low-end content by boosting lower odd/even harmonics from a range of 160Hz to 20Hz and below
- Cream boosts odd/even harmonics whilst also reducing the amplitude of the fundamental frequencies and applying typical transformer-style transient taming
- Reamp line-level tracks from your DAW through Mojo to apply analogue saturation to your stems, VST, and stereo mixes
- Gold Flashing on backplane contacts for increased conductivity and durability
- Designed and Engineered in the UK
Reviews:
Sound On Sound
Tape Op
MusicTech
View the PDF below for all features and specifications.