Drawmer unveils the new classic 1972

Drawmer has released the 1972 dual mic/line and instrument mic preamplifier, said to be a unit dedicated to flexibility with “a unique feature set and simple operation”. Created for use both at home and in professional studio and live sound applications, the 1972 is handcrafted with all steel chassis. It sports two identical channels of analogue pre-amplification in a 1U rack chassis. Key to the 1972's versatility is the Select input source switch. It has six switch positions to cover the ¼-inch front panel instrument input jack for guitars, basses or electronic keyboards and five more positions covering separate rear panel XLR input jacks for microphones with/without 48V phantom powering or line level input sources. Other switch positions are provided to match microphones with 200Ω, 600Ω or 2,400Ω impedances.

Up to 66dB of clean gain in 6dB steps is provided by THAT Corp Technology using a 12-position rotary Gain switch. The switch's detents aim to make it easy to recall settings from previous sessions. Input levels are monitored on a five LED colour-coded metre directly above the Input Gain control and a compact VU meter monitors the final Output level.

Front panel controls continue with a Phase reverse button and the switchable semi-parametric Lo and HiCut filter section, also working as a very smooth bandpass filter. The LoCut section is switchable in/out and is a 12dB/octave filter with the ability to sweep any frequency between 15–350Hz. The HiCut or low-pass half of this filter ranges from 1.5kHz to 20kHz and is also a 12dB/octave design.

Unique to the 1972 is Lift, a low-level, upward expander. When switched in, Lift adds gain to input signals below a level of –30dB and continues adding gain until a level of 0dB is reached. Furthermore, starting at –30dB, the amount of added gain is gradually reduced as the average level approaches 0dB.

Another feature of 1972 is Shape, designed to be used as an instant sonic fixer. It consists of two separate fixed-frequency tilt or seesaw equalisers centred at 500Hz. Low Shape will provide up to a 2.5dB boost at 40Hz and, at the same time, attenuates –2.5dB at 10kHz. Conversely, Hi Shape reduces by 2.5dB at 40Hz and, at the same time, boosts up to 2.5dB at 10kHz. With both Low and High Shape buttons engaged, a useful "scoop" centred at 500Hz is generated.

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