{"id":269,"date":"2024-01-05T01:21:15","date_gmt":"2024-01-05T01:21:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/retroinstruments.com\/reviews\/?p=269"},"modified":"2024-01-05T01:21:15","modified_gmt":"2024-01-05T01:21:15","slug":"vintage-king-review-retro-instruments-500pre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/retroinstruments.com\/reviews\/vintage-king-review-retro-instruments-500pre\/","title":{"rendered":"Vintage King Review Retro Instruments 500PRE"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>First Listen: Retro 500PRE<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When <a href=\"https:\/\/vintageking.com\/retro-instruments\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Retro Instruments<\/a> first announced the brand&#8217;s new <a href=\"https:\/\/vintageking.com\/retro-instruments-500pre-500-series-tube-mic-preamp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">500PRE<\/a> ($799), we knew we were in love before we ever even heard it. After all, what&#8217;s not to love about bringing the <a href=\"https:\/\/vintageking.com\/retro-instruments-sta-level\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Sta-Level<\/a> design to the 500 Series world and packing three tubes into that compact module. Little did we know, we had something to do with the inspiration for it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;It was inspired by the Vintage King April Fools\u2019 Day post on the 500 Series Fairchild 670,&#8221; says Retro Instruments Owner\/Designer Phil Moore. &#8220;<em>\u201cThe performance of the 500PRE exceeded my expectations. It\u2019s based on professional tube console program amplifiers from the era of the Sta-Level and <a href=\"https:\/\/vintageking.com\/retro-instruments-176\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">176<\/a>. It\u2019s got 75 dB of gain and no compromises.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Retro Instruments 500PRE | Mic Pre | Vintage King Audio\" width=\"525\" height=\"295\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9bUFBOE_cNg?start=1&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>While the 75 dB of gain will make the 500PRE a great tool for tracking sessions, the 500 Series module can also be vital during the mixing process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read the rest of this review @ <a href=\"https:\/\/vintageking.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/retro-instruments-500pre-module\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/vintageking.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/retro-instruments-500pre-module<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First Listen: Retro 500PRE When Retro Instruments first announced the brand&#8217;s new 500PRE ($799), we knew we were in love before we ever even heard it. After all, what&#8217;s not to love about bringing the Sta-Level design to the 500 Series world and packing three tubes into that compact module. Little did we know, we &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/retroinstruments.com\/reviews\/vintage-king-review-retro-instruments-500pre\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Vintage King Review Retro Instruments 500PRE&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,2],"tags":[50,21,8,36],"class_list":["post-269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-500pre","category-gear","tag-500-series-2","tag-500pre","tag-retro-instruments","tag-vintage-king"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/retroinstruments.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/retroinstruments.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/retroinstruments.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/retroinstruments.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/retroinstruments.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/retroinstruments.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":270,"href":"https:\/\/retroinstruments.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269\/revisions\/270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/retroinstruments.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/retroinstruments.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/retroinstruments.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}