Audio Transformers

In the never ending search for unique audio flavor and quality, studio engineers are constantly buying gear to find the holey grail combination. The sonic qualities found in many genera's of music from the 60's and 70's sound the way they do, because of audio transformers. Strategically placing rare audio transformers between audio equipment used to create a "channel strip" would create a very unique sound, that would be hard to reproduce by other engineers. Vintage sonic building blocks.

Audio transformers are vintage audio components used in recording studio equipment, including mixing consoles, pre-amps, direct boxes, amplifiers, equalizers, compressors and limiters. The analog conversion of electrical audio signals to magnetic signals, then back again to electrical signals brings color, detail, improved sonic image, spatial separation and ear pleasing harmonics to audio tracks. A critical component, used by many studio engineers, musicians and recording studios.

Audio transformers can be found in many shapes and sizes, the basic types are input, output, E/I core and Toroidal core. Audio transformers are forgotten technology, responsible for the amazing sound heard on many vintage recordings from around the world. World famous hip hop, boom bap and lofi beat makers have been sampling music from vinyl records made with audio transformers for years. Defining the sound of hip hop music through the sampling of all genres of music.

Audio transformers are like audio pharmaceuticals, once you listen to music on them you won't be able to put them down. There's something about the warm mid range and vocals, the large rumbling low end, and the crispy metallic highs that will have you craving for more. Digital audio software and DAW's introduced us to recording studio equipment only available in high end studios. Allowing us to experience the wonder of analog audiophile in our own home or project studios. Now with today's resurgence of analog audio hardware, we get to experience it as physical gear.

After extensive research we've found a rare collection of high quality audio transformers from around the world. Input and output transformers of all shapes and sizes with some beautiful vintage audio characteristics. The core materials range from iron, to steel to nickle alloys, providing a nice selection of nostalgic sonic flavors. Some of them are the same units that are used in Rupert Neve equipment. Others come from the USSR and Europe and are exclusively available from Big Noise.

15 new Boutique Audio Transformer designs; Input transformers will come in a modular format, allowing transformers to be interchanged via high quality ceramic octal tube connectors. Output transformers come enclosed in die-cast aluminum boxes, with options to select transformer ratio, termination and attenuation. Please stay tuned we're very excited about these new designs!