Neve Marinair Carnhill Style Transformer Box - Diode Clipper

Dual Transformer & Diode Clipper Box - Neve - Marinair - Carnhill Styled transformer distortion unit
Custom hand crafted in England 

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Neve, Marinair Carhill styled transformer box.  These transformers are designed to give a high level signal with excellent sound quality. Spec on this is to give 1:1 600 ohm in/out

Unique design and well featured for such a small footprint unit.  Fully balanced in/out with TRS 1/4" sockets and hard bypass fitted to A/B the signal.  Can be run as a transformer only colour box with the diodes disabled or switched in to 4 different diode options on each channel.

1. Diodes off using just the transformer in the signal
2. Vintage Germanium diodes  -  Classic very rounded signal and huge crunch/clip at lower levels
3. Shottkey diodes - Very similar to the Germanium but with a fasted speed
4. Silicon diodes for a more modern squarer sound
5. LED requiring a higher level to trigger the "threshold"

When in transformer mode only you get around a 5dB step-up in gain into a 10k ohm load.  Great for a bit of free passive gain.You then have a multi way switch to select output attenuation giving the option to drive the input hard while backing off the hot outputs
When switching the diodes into the chain you will get some serious clipping, distortion and compression so you will then require some make-up gain in your next stage.   Very unique unit offering a nice clean transformer sound to dirty and crunch!!

• 1/4" input and output connections - Balanced
• 2 x large high level transformers - British designed and made
• Output attenuation controls  -  6 way control which allows you to drive the inputs and back off the hot outputs
• Balanced input and output
• Hard bypass switches 
• All units fully bench tested on all functions and signal phase

I have seen similar to these being used for mastering and with great results too

The idea here is to "change" and colour signals. Each unit we build will have unique specs and workings so a great way of getting unique changes to recordings.  These are designed to handle quite high levels before maxing out so can sound very clean too and are also perfect as hum eliminator and balanced to unbalanced, unbalanced to balanced convertors