Product information "Dave Hill Designs Europa 1"
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Dave Hill Designs is proud to introduce a totally unique design concept in microphone pre amplifier technology, The Europa One. The Europa 1 is a preamplifier that is constructed with 91 transistors in it’s main audio path and it is of
discrete Class A topology.
Included are the standard functions such as phase, phantom power and an instrument input.
The input impedance of the mic preamplifier has 3 choices.
The HI-z selection is in the range of 200K ohm and will provide very little loading of the source. The
second position has an impedance of approximately 2.2K ohms. With the third position having an
input impedance of 300 ohms for color choices.
The instrument input has 1.2 Meg ohm impedance and has a gain range of 0db to 30 db
The gain over all is adjustable in 1db steps from 0 to 66db on the mic input and 0 to 30 db on the instrument input. Gain is displayed on a 2 digit led display.
The low cut filter, which is a 3 pole, 18db per octave, has 8 frequencies: 148 Hz, 130 Hz, 117 Hz, 100 Hz, 81 Hz, 63 Hz, 48 Hz, 33 Hz, and off.
Unique to the Europa pre-amp are 3 controls for changing the color of the pre-amp:
The first control is a SPEED which changes how fast the pre-amp can respond. The control goes from 0 to 8 with 8 being the fastest rate, and 0 being very drastic.
The even harmonic control provides 9 levels of color from 0 to 8.
The odd harmonic control which also has 9 levels color with the 0 setting being the cleanest in both cases.
These three controls are a series analog process so that the even harmonic control affects the sound of the speed control and the odd harmonic control affects the sound of both the speed and even harmonic controls
All the controls; gain, speed, even harmonic, the odd harmonic controls are stepped which makes it easy to recall settings.
The level meter has a 0 VU reference point of (+4dbu) with one db steps going to +20 db above 0VU and to -25 db below 0 VU with the steps being larger than 1 db below -16 db.
The maximum output level is +24 dbu balanced with the maximum balanced input level of +24 dbu at 0 db of gain. This allows the Europa 1 pre-amp to be used in a mix environment for coloring.
Europe 1 Reference Measurements
"This mic pre is unlike any other I have ever used. With the speed control I can change the attack in which the transient of a signal can be amplified. It can be very fast like a more modern mic pre or slow it down to get a more vintage sound. With other pres you can not get this kind of flexibility. This is a magic snare box, can get a few different sounds out of the snare. Also having the variable harmonic control I can add some color to the sound in a way other pres can't. This is great for tracking vocals or guitars. But if you want it to be clean, it does that with ease too. "
Paul David Hager
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"This mic pre is unlike any other I have ever used. With the speed control I can change the attack in which the transient of a signal can be amplified. It can be very fast like a more modern mic pre or slow it down to get a more vintage sound. With other pres you can not get this kind of flexibility. This is a magic snare box, can get a few different sounds out of the snare. Also having the variable harmonic control I can add some color to the sound in a way other pres can't. This is great for tracking vocals or guitars. But if you want it to be clean, it does that with ease too. "
Paul David Hager
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