This is a Tone Beast Warm Audio Preamp Review. I'm going to use the TB12 on a recording session, walk you through my settings, and show you how I use it with an epiphone J45 guitar as a studio guitarist.

This Tone Beast is actually kind of a beast. It makes cheap instruments sound more harmonically rich, more complex, fatter if you will. It is a good value microphone preamp, and can also be used to plug a bass into.

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I'm building a sustainable recording studio in this barn, using only salvage gear - stuff I find, or stuff I had. So, my friend kindly mailed me my tone beast preamp from my little studio in Los Angeles. Unfortunately, it got damaged in shipping. I can't rackmount it now, and beyond that, I don't know what kind of damage the tonebeast sustained internally. Time will tell. But so far on this recording session it sounded normal. As a session guitarist, it's really handy to have an affordable preamp like this that will thicken up and warm up condensers.

I had to do a recording session - acoustic guitars for a chill indy style song. The songwriter told me to do whatever I wanted, and in the end he ended up being very happy. I went for a quasi leonard cohen vibe. I have more expensive guitars at my disposal, but I felt that this cheap epiphone acoustic was best for the job. The microphone is a U87 clone - basically a completely new microphone placed inside the body of an mxl, but it doesn't really retain any of the original mxl parts. I dropped it, that's why it looks messed up. The last thing in the chain is a focusrite clarett preamp, on which I bypass the pres. The studio is a work in progress, slowly coming together, but already functional with the limited stuff I have. What do you think about the sound?

I hope you enjoyed my unboxing, review and recording session with the Warm Audio ToneBeast TB12 preamp. And technically, yes, I did unbox it.

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