PREAMP- CATALINBREAD Crooner ___NEW___ clone of RCA BA-31 broadcaster

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   CROONER   

$260.00 USD

The RCA BA-31 was one of a very few preamps designed for 

broadcasts in the early 60's. It was meant to make even the 

human voice coming out of a cheap radio sound good. It had 

EQ, campanding etc ,etc as a fixed voice with a minimum 

amount of tweaks and for the most part was an always on 

piece of kit. Wampler put a UEI OpAmp in it to add more 

muscle as it was never made originally for a an electric  

guitar new kind of dirt pedal. 

            C ONCLUSION __

It is what it is. There are a few old school preamps 

never meant as a guitar pedal out there . They are 

all a 'thing'. In short they add sugar or spice. You 

like a flavor or you don't. 

I have the JV Effects Transmission but its spice is 

putting cutting bite on the voice for very low budget 

small time/local radio broadcasters. Unlike the Crooner 

it is not a sweetener but more of a hot taco sauce.