The Sebatron AXIS 200-VU Dual Valve Pre is a high-performance valve microphone preamplifier tailored for both professional and home recording engineers, delivering exceptional sonic flexibility. Its circuit design emphasises both accurate, transparent amplification and the ability to overdrive in a musically compressed manner, much like the human ear’s natural response.
Built with great care in topology and layout, the preamp not only provides clean signal paths but also expressive valve-driven coloration when desired. Unlike hybrid designs that incorporate fragile integrated circuits, the Sebatron AXIS 200-VU is a true valve-only audio path, offering robustness and reliability even under overload conditions. It extends and refines the sonic palette established by the earlier VMP series.
Made in Australia, the chassis is constructed from 1.2 mm mild-steel, powder-coated in textured black, while the front panel is 2.5 mm mild-steel. The internal circuitry of the Sebatron AXIS 200-VU is class-A discrete both in valve and solid-state stages, running on high-voltage rails of +300 V for the valve and +60 V for solid-state components.
Features
- True valve microphone and direct-input preamplifier with high sonic fidelity
- Clean, transparent sound or expressive overdrive/“compression” via valve dynamics
- Valve-only audio path—no fragile integrated circuits in the signal chain
- Discrete class-A circuit design with ± high-voltage rails
- Rugged, dependably built all-steel chassis and front panel
- Globally switchable external power (110–240 VAC)