{"id":11398,"date":"2021-04-21T13:11:06","date_gmt":"2021-04-21T09:11:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.megsstarmusic.com\/megstarbkp\/?post_type=product&#038;p=11398"},"modified":"2021-04-21T13:25:07","modified_gmt":"2021-04-21T09:25:07","slug":"triton-fethead-germanium","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/www.megsstarmusic.com\/megstarbkp\/product\/triton-fethead-germanium\/","title":{"rendered":"TRITON Fethead GERMANIUM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"TRITONAUDIO FetHead Germanium - Gain Booster for your Preamp | Gear Review\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xyh0QeC2H2A?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2>Preamp with germanium harmonics<\/h2>\n<p>FetHead Germanium<em>\u00a0<\/em>is high quality in-line microphone preamplifier. It provides a punchy and direct, \u2018larger than life\u2019 germanium sound for dynamic and ribbon microphones. Sounding full and rich it is reminiscent of much higher priced vintage gear, making FetHead Ge&#8217;s desirable coloration a really great addition to (interface) preamps which sound rather neutral.\u00a0Our\u00a0FetHead Germanium<em>\u00a0<\/em>utilizes tried and true FET technology combined with a hand selected \u201cNew Old Stock\u201d Germanium transistor to deliver 29dB&#8217;s of germanium flavored boost.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Germanium Flavor<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Germanium transistors were widely used in earliest transistor designs by\u00a0<em>Neve, EMI, Telefunken,\u00a0<\/em>and<em>\u00a0Fairchild,<\/em>\u00a0and have developed a reputation for a decidedly vintage mojo that remains sought after today.<\/p>\n<p>We created a novel hybrid circuit that consists of low noise JFETs and a hand-selected \u2018new old stock\u2019 germanium transistor to take full advantage of the &#8220;Germanium&#8221; sound and at the same time achieve the same sonic quality we are known for.\u00a0A low impedance output buffer provides output drive to long cables.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Operation<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Your Fethead Germanium will latch straight onto any XLR equipped microphone, or anywhere else in the signal path between microphone and preamp\/mixer.\u00a0\u00a0The electronics are housed in a robust metal chassis with a balanced female XLR input and a balanced male XLR output, rugged enough for use at home, in the studio or on tour.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Protects the microphone<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Some older ribbon microphones do not tolerate phantom power. Fethead uses phantom power to power its circuitry, but doesn\u2019t pass phantom power to the microphone, so rest assured your ribbon mics are safe.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FetHead Germanium<em>\u00a0<\/em>is high quality in-line microphone preamplifier. It provides a punchy and direct, \u2018larger than life\u2019 germanium sound for dynamic and ribbon microphones. Sounding full and rich it is reminiscent of much higher priced vintage gear, making FetHead Ge&#8217;s desirable coloration a really great addition to (interface) preamps which sound rather neutral.\u00a0Our\u00a0FetHead Germanium<em>\u00a0<\/em>utilizes tried and true FET technology combined with a hand selected \u201cNew Old Stock\u201d Germanium transistor to deliver 29dB&#8217;s of germanium flavored boost.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":11399,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"product_cat":[269,285],"product_tag":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megsstarmusic.com\/megstarbkp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/11398"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megsstarmusic.com\/megstarbkp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megsstarmusic.com\/megstarbkp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megsstarmusic.com\/megstarbkp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11398"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megsstarmusic.com\/megstarbkp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megsstarmusic.com\/megstarbkp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megsstarmusic.com\/megstarbkp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=11398"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megsstarmusic.com\/megstarbkp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=11398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}