Tierra Audio Flavours: 7 Preamplifiers for all tastes

Today we present the Flavours Kit of InLine-type microphonepreamplifiers from Tierra Audio.

The Flavours Kit includes 7 different flavors and colors, but today we are not going to taste or even smell them, but simply connect them with a microphone.

What are InLine preamplifiers?

An InLine preamplifier is a microphone preamp with fixed gain and can be active or passive.

The idea of Flavours preamps is to get characteristic preamp sounds to go with inexpensive sound cards or sound cards that do not have level preamps or simply do not have the desired coloration.

The Flavours line is designed to be used especially with microphones that require significant gain, for example the Shure SM7b or otherwise dynamic and ribbon microphones.

Some, however, can also be used with modern microphones because they have lower gain.

How to use the Flavours Kit with a condenser microphone

If you want to use Flavours line preamps with condenser microphones, you will need to use an external48V phantom power supply to power the microphone.

Flavours preamps are, in fact, active, so they require phantom, but they do not allow phantom to be sent to the microphone as well. This is because otherwise dynamic microphones, but especially passive ribbon microphones, would be damaged.

In any case, perhaps only two or three preamplifiers can be coupled with a high output of a condenser microphone.

Technical characteristics of the 7 preamplifiers

Each preamp in the Flavours line will have different gain, different coloration, and different saturation. In fact, as you may have noticed, we have precisely 7 different flavors for 7 different types of sound and applications.

In particular be careful how you use Chili and especially Truffle, because they really saturate a lot and only with low signals can you get a barely saturated recording.

The most extreme are precisely the Chili and Truffle which have very high gains 50db and 54dB respectively.

While the gentlest are Salt and Mint. Salt is the most transparent while Mint is useful for softening low frequencies, thus in recording situations with proximity effect.

Vanilla and Cocoa are the most colorful in the midrange so they soften a lot.

Obviously not all of them are suitable for recordings with vocals or guitars but they can certainly be used for sound design situations or orchestral instruments as well.

As always I recommend you watch our YouTube video to learn more about the product and, if you want to hear for yourself how they sound outboard for your studio, I invite you to visit the Milk Audio Store showroom and store.