Product Details
FMR RNP Microphone Preamp

FMR RNP Microphone Preamp
From FMR

List Price: $599.00
Price: $480.00

Availability: Usually ships in 1-3 weeks
Ships from and sold by 8th Street Music

Average customer review:
The famous Really Nice Preamp by RNP that many love dearly on our forums--me included! This is Tweak talkin'

Product Description

Lots o headroom. These days, the trend is for microphones to increase their output signal levels while reducing their output noise levels. This means either employing a front-end pad and/or increasing the headroom of a mic pre. We decided to do the latter: at unity gain, the RNP 8380 has a clip point of +27.5dBu (almost 25Volts peak-to-peak)! Even with a hefty microphone output, the RNP8380 should take what your mics have to give. Fidelity. When designing a pre-amp, there are many ways to balance the sometimes conflicting operating constraints. Unfortunately, with the proliferation of integrated-circuit (IC) based mic pres in recent years, one of the typical casualties has been fidelity. At this point, I wont bore you with the geeky details, but I want to assure you that fidelity was not sacrificed in the RNP8380. Even though there are many mic pres that are quieter, there are very few that have the spurious-free (i.e., distortion-free) spectrum of the RNP8380. Now, more than ever, what you put into a mic pre is what youll get out. Ugly box. If you look beyond the RNP8380s utilitarian ugliness, youll see that we opted to throw the money we saved in cosmetics into the quality of the audio electronics. I like having nice-looking gear as much as the next guy, but given the choice between something that sounds nice versus looks nice, the sound wins out everytime. Really Nice Compressor (RNC) inserts.

Product Details

  • Amazon Sales Rank: #15056 in Musical Instruments
  • Brand: FMR
  • Dimensions: 2.05 pounds

Features

  • Dual Channel / 2 Mic Preamps
  • Front Panel: (2) 1/4 inch HI-Z Inputs for Instrument Direct input
  • Gain Control Knobs (6dB increments)
  • Polarity Invert Switches on each
  • 48 Volt Phantom Power Switches

Customer Reviews

The best preamp under $500... Ah heck! The best preamp under $1000!5
Don't let the look of this thing fool you. This is pro audio gear done right. No hype, no hoopla, no BS. It just works. Awesome sound. If you are just getting started in recording or you are a seasoned vet looking for something new and special, this is the preamp to get. Match it up with the Really Nice Compressor and/or Really Nice Limiter and you'll have a heavyweight signal chain that will handle anything and make it sound better than ever.

Thanks FMR Audio! I wish there were more companies like this!

Really nice preamp5
This product really deserves its name. This is probably the best preamp you can get for its price range. It is simple to use and does its job perfectly. It has all the standard features you would need in a preamp: 2 channels, phantom power, phase invert, 66 dB gain, hi-Z and XLR inputs.
A little detail I really like is that the gain knobs are in labeled 6 dB intervals, making it really easy to write down your working settings for different instruments.
All in all, a great product!