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Garbage Ideas Post Pre Microphone Preamp and Line Level Clipper

Garbage Ideas Post Pre Microphone Preamp and Line Level Clipper

$599.00 USD
$599.00 USD
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We REALLY did not want to make a mic pre. But here we are. Oops.

That said, we wouldn't release it if we didn't REALLY believe in it. The Garbage Ideas Post Pre is a very interesting device. It is both a Mic Pre and a line level processor. It features custom wound input and output transformers as well as two different series amplifiers (1 or 1+2) with very different, albeit complementary clipping behaviors.

Amp "1" features a maximum 65 dB of gain with an extremely low noise floor. It also features incredibly high bandwidth which lends itself to be able to clip without being prone to sounding "distorted", just more harmonic. Amp "2" can be added in series with "1" to give additional harmonic content and reduce dynamic range.

Lastly, RTFM otherwise known as "Recallable Two-Bus Functionality Mode", disables the "IN" potentiometer and fixes the gain at 35 dB with some additional padding to allow for clipping and saturation over mixbus/program material with minimum issues with recall. The "OUT" potentiometer remains active to allow for attenuation.

Specs:
Gain: 30-65 dB

EIN: -126 dBu terminated with 150 ohms 22-22k

THD: choose your own adventure

Pad: -20 dB

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Testimonial

  • Tom Tapley

    Bruce Springsteen, Sugarland, Mastodon, Pearl Jam
    "Holy compressor heaven!  The guys over at Garbage Ideas have truly hit a
    grand slam with the FK Comp.The moment I started running drums
    through it I fell in love.  Simply said this thing makes big things even
    bigger.  If you’re looking for bombastic and exciting look no further. 
    I love that it only has 3 knobs and can handle whatever you put through
    it.  Instant sound!!!! Thanks for designing something awesome and easy to use!!!"

  • Joseph Chudyk

    Kane Brown, Ghost, Teddy Swims
    “A pair of these live as a parallel drum crush in all my mixes, but I’ll
    print a pass of almost every source with them. The drive mode is
    unreal. It’s hard to put into words what these can do, direct or in
    parallel. You can’t get this sound with a plugin.”

  • Ben H. Allen

    Animal Collective, Gnarles Barkley, Soccer Mommy
    "I’m using my FK comps all the time during both tracking and mixing.
    They’ve got an insane amount of variability from extremely subtle to
    extremely not subtle. Garbage Ideas really nailed it with a compressor
    unlike anything else on the market right now.” 

  • Ben Etter

    Deerhunter, Kaiser Chiefs, Hazel English
    “I’m not really interested in tools that are subtle, and FK Comp is anything but. I prefer circuits that can be pushed for heavy-handed parallel processing and FK transforms pretty much any source you throw at it. Particularly good as a stereo pair!”
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