512c Mic Pre
500 Series Module
From API:
The API 512c remains faithful to the circuit designs of API’s founder Saul Walker. Artfully combining those circuits with API’s proprietary transformers and the incomparable 2520 op-amp, the 512c is a highly musical and rich-sounding analog mic pre, equally at home in commercial recording spaces as it is in smaller home studios. Fully featured and still hand assembled, the 512c exhibits the reliability, long life, and uniformity which are characteristic of all API products.
Specs
- Rear connector
- Output on edge connector, MIC Input on edge connector, can be defeated
- Front connectors
- XLR MIC Input, HI-Z 1/4" Unbal Input
- Gain range
- MIC: 34dB to 65dB (14dB to 45dB w/PAD). HI-Z: 14dB to 45dB (-6dB to 25dB w/PAD)
- Maximum input levels
- MIC, +8 dBu, Unbal HI-Z Input, +36 dBu
- Input impedance
- MIC Input, 1500 Ohms (150 Ohm mic), HI-Z Unbal Input, 400 K Ohms (20 K Ohms with pad)
- Output impedance
- Less than 75 Ohms, Transformer Balanced
- Clipping level
- +30 dBu
- Frequency response
- +0, -.3, 30 to 20 kHz
- Noise
- Equivalent Input Noise: -129, Mic In. -125, Un-Balanced In. Actual Metered Noise: Mic, -95 dBu, Un-Bal., -90 dBu
- Distortion
- Less than .05% @ +4 Out, Less than .1% @ +28 Out
- Power consumption
- ±12/18 Volts/DC, @40 ma.
- Size
- 1.5" X 5.25" X 7" Deep
- Size (boxed for shipping)
- 4.5" X 6.5" X 10.25"
- Actual weight
- 1.41 lbs.
- Shipping weight
- 1.94 lbs.
Source: API 512c Mic Pre product page