If there's one style of preamp that professional engineers would unanimously agree has defined the tone of pop/rock records for decades it would most definitely be the venerable '73-style of mic pre. '73-style preamps have been massively used in recording and live applications for many years and are still considered to be the Holy Grail of preamp choices today. The Warm Audio WA73 Family consists of single and dual channel '73-style amps (with and without EQ) that each pay careful homage to British audio history.

The WA273 is a Desert Island boutique preamp but it can also be classified as a studio and live work-horse. Classic '73-style preamps are known for being versatile tools that work with all kinds of microphones from Condenser to Dynamic to Ribbon. The WA273 equally shines on all types of microphones and sources including; vocals acoustic/electric guitars bass drums percussion orchestras keyboards and even as a tone shaping tool to run partial or complete mixes through. With 80dB of gain and a fully discrete Carnhill Transformer balanced signal path there's no recording mixing or engineering task that the WA273 can't handle.