Avalon Design

The Avalon U5 high-voltage DI-preamp combines a unique passive tone selector with a variable gain preamp and filter. The high input impedance accepts a wide variety of signal levels and instruments from acoustic guitars to high-output active bass guitars and keyboards. The U5 direct box is loaded with sonic character and user features professionals demand.

SONIC EXCELLENCE
The Avalon U5 Pure Class A instrument DI & preamplifier is the most powerful direct box available today. Designed to optimize absolute signal integrity and musical performance, the U5 includes many features and sonic excellence unequaled by lesser designs. The U5 is ideal ...

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Avalon microphone preamplifiers have been in use around the world since 1986. All preamplifiers share the combined technologies of low ratio transformer balanced inputs coupled with high-voltage cascade FET twin bipolar discrete class A amplifiers.

• 100% discrete, pure class A mode
• Transformer coupled inputs
• Musically balanced harmonic detail
• Low noise, high headroom +30dB
• Variable highpass filter on M5
• B&K 130v optional card on M5
• Accurate 2dB stepped gain control
• High impedance DI instrument input

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