VLC
Channel Strip
From Hazelrigg Industries:
The debut offering from Hazelrigg Industries, the VLC is a powerful and elegant All-Tube Preamp/EQ combination designed to address the sonic challenges faced by today’s audio professionals.
The VLC is simply a solution: an elegant, high-performance Preamp/EQ/DI combo that delivers world class sonics while still being able to fit into the overhead bin.
The foundation of the VLC is the legendary Preamp and Power Supply design utilized in the VT series of Tube Microphone Preamplifiers from D.W. Fearn. Designed for sonic transparency and delivering incredible headroom, the VLC will produce stunning results with dynamic, condenser and ribbon microphones and will change the way that you approach your mic locker during a session.
Specs
- Type
- All-tube microphone preamplifier, passive LC equalizer and DI
- Input
- 1.5k ohms
- Input load impedance
- 150 ohms
- Minimum input level
- -65 dBm nominal
- Maximum input level
- -30 dBm without pad, -5 dBm with 20 dB pad
- Instrument input impedance
- 1 Megohm
- Line input load impedance
- 40k ohms
- Gain
- 55 dB minimum
- Frequency response
- ± 0.5 dB 20 cps to 20 kc
- THD + noise
- <0.35% 20 cps to 20 kc
- Intermodulation distortion
- SMPTE: <0.80%
- Signal to noise ratio
- 72 dB typical operation
- Equivalent input noise
- -124 dbm maximum
- Output
- low-Z, transformer balanced
- Maximum output level
- +22 dBm unterminated
- Power requirements
- 120 or 220 VAC 50/60Hz, 25 W
- Dimensions
- 19” (48.26cm) W, 3.5” (13.34cm) H, 14” (22.86cm) D
- Weight
- 12.5 lbs. (5.66 kg)
Source: Hazelrigg Industries VLC manual (PDF), Specification page