MTP-66 Tube Desktop Microphone Preamp

The Iconic Motown Input Box Want to infuse your music with the Motown sound? Sweetwater has a box for that. In 1966, the chief engineer at Motown Records designed a tube DI that could accommodate multiple guitar and bass instruments. This is the backbone of the Motown sound that drove the hits from 1966 to 1972. It’s the sound of James Jamerson, Dennis Coffey, Bob Babbitt, Robert White, Joe Messina, and the other largely unsung (and uncredited) musicians collectively known as the Funk Brothers, Motown’s legendary in-house rhythm section. With their MTP-66, Acme Audio has faithfully re-created the Motown “Input Box” from the original schematics in a single-channel, all-tube device — and added a killer mic preamp section. Clad in a rugged lunchbox chassis with a snazzy retro blue paint job, the MTP-66 serves up fat, harmonically rich bottom end, authoritative upper-midrange presence, and exciting tube sheen on the high

• 1-channel Tube Preamp/DI with Acme Audio/Triad Input Transformer CineMag Output Transformer