The Mike-E™ from Empirical Labs is a modern digitally controlled Microphone Preamplifier chocked with unusual features to warm and soften the source, along with an excellent compressor/limiter. Mike-E offers an incredible performance transformer-coupled mic preamp, whose noise floor is far below any microphone’s self noise. The one-of-a-kind ‘CompSat’ section is an uncompromising compressor and saturator circuit that offers versatile ‘coloring’, and classic knee compression.
Specifications
• Freq. Response is 3 Hz to 200 kHz on (No CompSat). CompSat is 3Hz – 150Khz. Optional Transformer output is 6Hz–80kHz.
• Signal to Noise - 130 dB signal to Noise.at 40dB gain. Maximum output is +28dBu.
• Distortion Ranges between .0006% and 15% depending on mode and settings.
• Transformer coupled Input, Active and Transformer Outputs available. High quality audio caps used internally.
• Input Impedance is 600 Ohms. Output impedance is less than 38 ohms.
• Attack/Decay Ranges - .9 – 100mS attack. .15 – 1 Sec.
• Power Consumption – 15 Watts Max.
We have enjoyed 14 amazing years with the Distressor, and 2008 was our best yet! There are tens of thousands of hit records out there with Distression (not to mention FATSO and Lil FrEQ) all over them! From Pavarotti to Nine Inch Nails, the Distressor can be heard in almost every form of music, live sound, and film production.
