Heavy, pretty dark. Very clear- you can dial in tons of drive before getting distortion.

BT has everything you'd need, and the bal/unbal input jacks are very cool.

Seems very solid- apparently you can run extremely hot signals through the input without frying it.

Can't get a better two channel preamp for the price.

Haven't dealt with Presonus, but I'm sure they're nice people.

Very sexy. The ladies love it- all I need to get lucky is my trusty Blue Tube. BT is a classy looking unit, and it doesn't take up a bunch of space like some of those non rack mounted units with the tube stickin out the top. The sound really suits my taste- which is usually never satisfied. I run all my digital gear through BT to warm things up, and for that sweet mildly dark tone.

... maybe a cross between Ween, Flaming Lips, and Frank Zappa

Sounds really nice, a little noisy, but it's tube, so - I have two of them and use them as preamp/warmers for my DAW. does a nice job of thickening up mics for vocals/guitar, and is great for direct on bass.

does everything i need it to.

for the money, you can't get much of a better preamp.

never needed any

hey, i bought another one, so it must have done something right. it's a nice looking, 1/2 rack space unit.

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