Chandler Limited Germanium Pre-amp

• AVAILABILITY/DELIVERY: On Order/Usually 7-14 days after received payment

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Chandler's newest series of units starts off with the GERMANIUM pre amp. Warm, Organic, and Chandler's Most Vintage Sounding Pre Amp Yet! A completely new design by Chandler Limited designer Wade Goeke that uses classic germanium transistors in all class A, transformer balanced, circuits. The use of germanium devices opens a whole new sound palate not found in any pro audio equipment currently manufactured.

These incredibly smooth sounding transistors were the basis of the earliest transistor designs by Neve (1053, 1055, 1057), EMI ( TG12345 MKI), Telefunken, and Fairchild. Those familiar with these units can attest to the special sound of the germanium tranasistor. The GERMANIUM series runs on +40 volt power, high current, and has a huge +34 output before clipping. The sound is warm and smooth as with many vintage style circuits, but you'll find a whole new world of smooth here as well as a sound that settles in perfectly to your tracks without fighting. Add these new circuits to Chandler's new transformer line that combines the best parts of our favorite trannies, St Ives and Gardners, into new great sounding input and output transformers.

• All Germanium units require and function on the PSU-1, Chandler Limited power supply!! → Find it HERE

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Specifications and Features

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Users' Opinions

"Your Germ Pre is INCREDIBLE... We did lots of guitars and basses...wow...wow...and once more, wow.... simply infinite tones and every single one is so musical and close to what you want it to be... thank you again...I just wish I had more units of yours, but that won't take long"
- Gavrièl Pardi, Italy

"I have a lot of mic pres from every kind of angle, from pristine clean to iron to tube and I decided to try one of these Germanium units to see what all the talk was...and holy crap....I was so blown away instantly...no eq....I even forgot to patch in a compressor....and it was polished from the get go...I still hear what I want to hear but it just added so much flavor...Well done gentlemen ...Well done!!!"
- Lou (Chandler Fan) Calgary, Alberta Canada

"I thought you'd like to know that one of my Hip Hop clients I sold pair of Germanium pre's to for vocals and DI is blown away! He's a personal studio client of mine from Florida and just called me to say he's literally going back and re-tracking the vocals on every song he's ever recorded because they've made the biggest difference in his sound and performance over every piece of gear he's ever had. You rock brotha!"
- Trent Thompson (Sweetwater Sound, Inc.)

It makes me feel very good to have invested in your product. Thank you very much for helping me so quickly.
- Yutaka (Satisfied Customer)

"Wow......I've never been this excited about a pre amp before. With 1 Microphone and the new Germanium chandler, I got some pretty insane guitar sounds instantly....from crystal clean with lots of body to pure overdriven hell. Unbelieveable flexibility...."
- Joe Barresi

"It's not only another paint brush, it's a whole paint brush store."
- Michael Wagner

"I put on the pad & added the thick and opened the pre up all the way. I got such an explosive sound everybody was S@!*TING. Later, I used it on the Bass rig almost the same way. That f#*!@ng pre has so much character and lo-end, I don't know what the hell to say... It is sooooo sick... I need more of these goddamn pre's, it is unbelievable!"
- Ross Hogarth

"Its now a month into using my Germaniums, and words can't describe how amazed I am! I'm blown away on a daily basis. I think the best way to describe these are just "instant cool." They definately have the 'it' factor sorely missing in most modern designs."
- Steve Evetts

"Run and buy one... They exceed all the hype in my opinion. The pre is amazing in that FINALLY a guitar amp'd in a room can be bettered without altering the fundamental character of it. Quite a feat IMO, really amazing. "
- Brian Lucey

"Please tell Wade that I just love my Chandler limiter plug-in, and the germanium i got recently is my favorite preamp ever--just fantastic!!!! Like many recording artists, I work mainly at home these days, and your stuff is absolutely essential in my work. These are modern classics!"
- Matthew Sweet

"How does it sound? In two words: shizzly dizzly! (That means great for those without the 2005 edition of the Hipster Dictionary). It has its own tone. If you use Neve and API as common reference points, I'd say that it can sound like both depending on how you set the Feedback. With the knob in the 9 o'clock to 11 o'clock range, it has that punchy fast slew-rate vibe of the API. When you turn it up, its more of the classic Neve vibe. However, throughout all this, its fundamental tone is big and round."
- Mike Caffrey

"The options like the feedback control and those switches are really wild too. I still cant believe that it is where it is in terms of price point. I thought this would be 2G's. Thank God it's not though. Especially cuz I heard clips on here where it sounded better (IMO) on the source than the XXXX."
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"I've had the Germ for a couple of weeks, and I've come to the conclusion that something must be wrong with it. I've tried it on acoustic guitar and it sounds great, tried it on electric, same thing. Tried it on vocals, sounds great. Since most preamps usually sound super on some things and not so super on others, I have to assume something must be wrong with mine since it sounds great on everything. However, I've decided not to have you repair it, because I like having one pre that sounds so good on so many different sources...keep up the great work!"
- Tom

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