Airstrip Console Pre (After School Special)

Limited Labor Day sale release. Available 08/28 – 09/06 only. A virtual sketchpad of songwriting ideas, the Airstrip is reimagined as a classic composition book, a great tool for getting your ideas out of your head and into the world. With every possible flavor of gain available, the Airstrip is your blank canvas. The Trident A-Range console dominated the UK recording scene in the late ‘60s to early ‘80s, due in part to just how good it made things sound. The heart of the beast consists of a discrete germanium-and-transformer-equipped preamp that can be adjusted to suit all tastes, from the tones of Lou Reed to the fuzzy freakouts of Frank Zappa. And of course, when pushed, console preamps distort, saturate and heave, dripping with harmonics and other desirable tonal artifacts. Our Airstrip distills these legendary tones into a stompbox-sized console preamp with a handful of extras on offer. A discrete op-amp based on a vintage UREI design pushes the front end of the console into bl