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(More customer reviews)I run Weston House Recording, a tiny recording studio out of my small home in Orangevale, CA; just on the edge of Sacramento.
On occasion, I have gear go down and usually travel to the San Francisco Bay Area for repair. Within the past year, I ran into the Rainbow Electronics repair shop, not more than 10 miles from me. Funny thing is that it they've been there for 20 years!
John McCormack owns and runs Rainbow Electronics along with his wife. From the moment we met, we became instant friends; with me being intrigued with all that he does and he with all that I do.
Out of one of our numerous conversations, he introduced me to his Warmenfat project. Of course, me being one who is always looking for high-quality gear at reasonable prices from not-so-known very small gear manufacturers, there was no choice but for me to buy one so that I could try it out over a long period of time in my studio.
I've been using the Warmenfat for almost a year now. It seems I pull it out whenever nothing else seems to work. In particular, it's great when electric guitar players come into the studio and want to go directly out of their analog or digital pedals or when they want to use their little practice amps with all their digital modeling. These "budget" pieces usually have good tone but for whatever reason, they rarely seem big and 3-dimensional.
I've found that if I run the Warmenfat inline some place in the signal-chain, I can dial-in just the right type and amount of tube character I need and get some life out of these units. I'd imagine it's from all the good and not-so-good natural characteristics in the high-quality tubes and transformer in the Warmenfat; not to mention the excellent circuit designing and product manufacturing.
There are endless possibilities with the Warmenfat. I haven't had the opportunity yet, as there's not really ever any money in paying artists budgets for experimentation, but I look forward in my own projects to try patching in the Warmenfat in various places, such as big electric guitar amp's effects loops, bass tracks, vocal tracks, FX buses, and so many other things!
Weston Ray
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Warmenfat Micro AmplifierThe Warmenfat Micro Amp is a versatile compact class A pure tube amplifier. Designed for lead guitar, bass guitar, keyboards, microphone pre amp, or as an effects processor. It can also be used anywhere to add tube tone. The 2 watt single ended tube output stage can easily drive a lead guitar cabinet to a wonderfully over driven tube crunch tone at practice volume level! Used in an effects loop, it can add tube warmth to solid state modeling amps. Old school tube amplifiers can benefit from its ability to add massive overdrive, British style tone crunch without "hot rodding" or modifying the vintage old amp. Used as tube microphone preamplifier, the Warmenfat Micro Amp offers world class performance. The aerospace derived low noise Ohmite metal film resistors and the Wima polypropylene capacitors allow the Warmenfat to reproduce with a clarity and natural warmth that out performs microphone pre amps costing thousands of dollars. Using multiple Warmenfats cascaded can result in awesome crunch or even be used with spring reverb unit for the ultimate pure tube stereo chorus sound.The Warmenfat Micro Amps versatility limits it usefulness only to the imagination of its owner.
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