RCA BA-2 is the classic tube preamp sound. Period. It is the sound in everyone's head when they transition from tube guitar amps to a tube mic preamp. If you push them they distort so smoothly you can't hear it, just sounds fat when it's flatlining a waveform. V series and REDD and OP-6 can't do that, it's technically impossible for them to do so with their topologies. If I had to trade everything else in and live with 16 of the same thing, I could do it with those. Gates SA-70 isn't far behind, more agressive sounding. Coil Audio makes their fine reproduction of that circuit. Learn to drive a BA-2, you might never need to use compression ever again, since they can do it for you.

- Doug/EmRR


This is fully serviced and currently wired at 600ohm input as our tech was enjoying listening to audio through it. we have another we will be listing soon, the input transformer has different taps, so you may interface with a microphone etc.

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ConditionExcellent (Used)
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Brand
Model
  • BA-2B Booster Amplifier
Categories
Year
  • 1950’s
Made In
  • United States

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