Fire Eye Development Red-Eye Instrument Preamp – ULT975560816649

The Red-Eye Instrument Preamp offers a simple direct-connect solution for musicians playing instruments with high-impedance piezoelectric pickups. The Red-Eye Preamp works well with instruments having passive or active piezo pickups or those with magnetic pickups such as electric guitars and electric basses.

The Red-Eye Preamps impedance-matching field-effect transistor input circuit is designed especially to match and track the impedance of passive piezoelectric pickups. That results in a smooth, natural, balanced, acoustic instrument tone. Low distortion, low noise, and generous headroom mean that clear tone comes through even when an instrument is played percussively and loudly.

Features:

• Input: Impedance-matching, accepts up to 2 volt peak-to-peak level without distortion.

• Low-impedance, balanced, XLR output, 600 ohms with ground-lift switch,

• Boost button with volume control for amplifying solos.

• Treble control to boost or reduce treble. Response is flat when control is centered.

• Usually powered by 48-volt XLR phantom power but has an internal 9-volt battery and a 9 to 18-volt center-negative, center-ground, power jack as alternatives.

• Long 9-volt battery life (~200 hours). Battery is not used if other power is present.

• Plugging an instrument in or connecting external power turns the Red-Eye on.

• Pwr Chk Light illuminates for about a second if power is good when the preamp is powered up. When powered up on the battery, the light will appear if the battery is in thefirst 34 of its life.

• 14 inch output and input for effects accessory loop, suitable for stomp-tuners or effects pedals or for output to on-stage guitar amps or PAs.

• Internal filtering to reject radio-frequency interference from neon lights and cell phones.

• Small Chassis Size: 1.25 x 2.25 x 4.25 inches. Weight: 10 ounces.