The Drawmer 1969 is a Mercenary Edition 2-channel mic preamplifier and compressor designed and tested in collaboration with Mercenary Audio, and is a major update to the circuit and functionality of the original 1960 model. It uses an Burr Brown IC-based microphone amplifier followed by an FET compressor with tube stage. The compressor, when stereo linked, can operate in "Big" mode which inserts a HPF into the detector circuit so that low frequencies can pass through uncompressed.