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Cranborne Audio Camden Preamp

Cranborne Audio Camden 500 – 500 Series Mic Pre Module

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    The Camden 500 is a microphone preamplifier from Cranborne audio. With a modern approach to vintage sound the Camden 500 can either act as a super transparent mic pre or can add some vintage colour through its Mojo control.

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      Cranborne Audio Camden 500 – 500 Series Mic Pre Module

      Camden 500 is the most astoundingly clean, linear, transparent preamp you’ve ever heard. But it also has “Mojo” – 2 discrete custom analogue saturation circuits that can be applied, exaggerated, and perhaps best of all – bypassed. Camden 500 provides the utmost clarity and detail when it is most required. Its custom ‘Camden’ topology achieves stunning low-noise and low-distortion performance: -129.8dB EIN (150ohm, unweighted) and THD+N as low as 0.0002%.  It also sets a new standard for frequency and phase linearity: ±0.7dB frequency response from 5Hz to 200kHz at max gain and <2° phase shift @ 50Hz – 20kHz. The sum result is the most natural sounding preamp you’ve ever heard.

      Stepped Gain Control
      Camden 500 features a premium, 12-way switch gain control that applies up to 68.5dB of clean, transparent preamp gain in 5.5dB steps. This makes it easy to recall gain settings and easy to match the gain of two Camden 500’s for stereo applications.

      Stereo Matched
      With carefully selected modern components, any two Camden preamps are completely stereo matched to within 0.1dB. Every Camden preamp also passes through a rigorous frequency response test at the factory that ensures it performs the same as the last.

      Progressive-slope High Pass Filter
      Camden’s high pass filter features a progressive slope where low end is rolled off initially at around 6dB/octave and then increases to 12dB for the lowest octave – preserving the low end you want, and cutting what you don’t.

      3-Way Input Type Switch
      Tailored input impedance and headroom for Mic, Line, and Hi-Z sources means punchy and full-range line recording with +26.5dBu of input headroom as well as alive and natural sounding DI’d instruments with it’s unique BJT design and 1.5M Ohm input impedance.

      MOJO

      For moments when you want that gooey, vintage vibe on your recordings, we developed Mojo – our own custom analogue saturation circuit that adds the familiar tone of transformers, valves, and vintage equipment onto your Camden’s preamps for recording or mixing. Record through Mojo to add that vibe on the way into your DAW, or add the Mojo during the mix phase – Mojo adds tons of analogue saturation to all audio signals.

      THUMP

      Thump excites low-end content by adding harmonics to the signal in the 20Hz – 100Hz range – resulting in fuller low-end on smaller speakers. As Thump is not EQ-based, the additional harmonic content is shaped by the source and it’s existing low-end frequency content resulting in a natural addition of extra “Thump”.

      CREAM

      Cream introduces a vintage smoothness and edge that is similar to how valves and tubes impact the sound of a preamp. Cream drastically increases harmonics and dynamically smooths-out the low mids for increased HF emphasis. Like Thump, Cream is completely dynamic and will vary its effect based on the inputs level and source material.

      Specifications

      • EIN: <-129.5dBu, 150 ohm source, unweighted <-135.5dBu, Inputs common, unweighted
      • THD+N: <0.0004%, 1kHz, 35dB gain, 24dBu out
      • Phase Shift: <2.25°, 40dB gain, 20Hz to 20kHz <4°, Max gain, 20Hz to 20kHz
      • Freq. Response: <±1dB, <5 Hz to >200 kHz, all gain settings
      • CMRR: >70dB, typ >85dB, 35dB Gain, 10-20kHz, 100mV Common mode

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