PEACH AUDIO Savannah M196sx £3,000
Well-established Australian manufacturer Peach Audio is making headway in international markets with the M196sx Savannah stereo microphone preamplifier, a valve-driven unit that employs classic Class A vacuum-tube technology alongside modern design elements. As much as we love vintage clones, it’s always interesting to get to grips with new designs that owe nothing to well-known historical products.
As mic preamps go, this is a feature-packed product that doesn’t stray into channel-strip territory. It has all the abilities you’d expect from a basic mic preamp, including input gain, 48v phantom power, and phase reverse, but also incorporates much more, so you can fine-tune your tone.
SPEC’ING UP
The source input control not only allows you to select microphone or line inputs, but also engages the phantom power for condenser mics. An unusual feature of the source control is
