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"The missing link - couldn’t be happier with it, it sounds incredible and adds enormous flexibility to my recording chain. Absolutely love it." - Christoph Bauschinger
"The 636 is a beast used it all over the new FDC album. My favourite overdrive ever!" - Carlos O'Connell Fontaines DC (636P)
"I was working with John Mayer actually and he had one. I’ve wanted an old one for a while but was so impressed I'm happy to pay the price for a full preorder." - Kid Harpoon
"Just had to let you know - I put it in the rack immediately, ran some drums through it, VERY BIG smile straight away!" - Leo Abrahams (636P2)
"I think you’ve really got something special with the 636s… going to be all over my recordings!! Many thanks" - Ed O’Brien (636P/636P2)
"My go to preamp for everything" - Hainbach (636P)
"...what I can’t live without any more is the 636P2! Recording almost every synth through it these days...your 636s are a big part of my sound now. So good to record through..." - Frank Wiedeman Innervisions/Âme (636/636P2)
"That thing is a monster" - Ben Frost (636/636P)
"Still the best // purest distortion I’ve ever heard"
- Mason Stoops (636P)
"This is the sound i have been looking for my whole life. Thank you." - Andrew Bennett (636P)
That's what our customers are saying about their Soundgas Type 636 series.
Soundgas Type 636P2 twin channel improved Grampian 636 mic preamp for sale. Designed and built in Derbyshire, England.
Twin channel rackmount evolution of our improved Grampian 636 mic preamp circuit with Carnhill output transformer balanced outputs for greater versatility and extended sonic palette.
The Soundgas Type 636P2 is the latest incarnation of the Soundgas Type 636 and desktop Type 636P which both feature our evolution of same hairy mic preamp circuit as the original Grampian Type 636. However this is far more than two 636Ps in a rack: the addition of the Carnhill transformer balanced output option massively increases versatility and offers a wider sonic palette. From subtle sweetening and widening of audio signals passing through with very little gain applied through to maximum filth and gnarl via the original unbalanced input/outputs. The 636P2 brings the 636 preamp into contention for more subtle bus/mix sweetening as well as wilder germanium fuzz and drive.
We are hand building a few limited runs to this specification.
How does it sound? At higher gain settings the transformers smooth out some of the wildness of the 636 to deliver a classy - yet still harmonically rich - sound. We have been blown away by how different these sound with the balanced outputs, and by how much we want to use it on everything. And if you want the full original 636 preamp magic, untamed by those beautiful red transformers? Simple - just plug into the 1/4" jack 'punch out' socket - this bypasses the transformer circuit and gives you that hairy (out of phase) direct output as found on the 636 and 636P.
What is it? Based on the Grampian Type 636 - famously used and abused by Lee 'Scratch' Perry and Pete Townshend - and many others since. This circuit builds on the spirit of the original vintage units - no tone sapping surface mount components in the audio path or DSP. Designed and built by our team in our new premises in Derbyshire, England.