Clarity MicAmp500
Overview
With the Clarity MicAmp500, what you hear in the live room is what you get in the control room. This ultra-low noise microphone amplifier delivers very fine detail, and a strikingly realistic sound. The frequency response is flat (for non phantom mode) down to below 1Hz at the bottom and does not start its tailored high frequency roll-off until above 45kHz. The CMRR (common-mode rejection ratio) is hand trimmed at mid and high frequencies to very high tolerances.
Working with the MicAmp500 is brilliantly straightforwardin any 500 series chassis. The MicAmp500 has a twelve position self-cleaning rotary switch that sets gain in 4dB steps from 20dB to 64dB. This coupled with the detailed scaling on the trim control makes settings easily repeatable.There is ultra-fast protection on the input so that any fault condition doesn’t damage the amplifier circuitry.
The three position bass roll off switch offers a flat response and the option of two cut-off points at a nominal 30Hz and 80Hz. The cut-off point and slope of the filters have been designed to give a wonderfully smooth response.This response is maintained when removing the low rumble with the roll-off set to 30Hz and the same is applied when dealing with more mains type noise on the 80Hz setting. In addition the filters have no effect above their cut-off frequency. The balanced output is a fully floating servo type output which delivers the same level into a balanced or unbalanced destination. The output’s balance is hand trimmed to +/-1% accuracy and can delivery up to +22dB into 600R.
