Vintage Tube and Dyno Preamps

Clone/Keyboard - Leslie Preamps
These preamps are intended for use with so called "Clone wheel" keyboards. These keyboards, which are intended to sound like the old tonewheel organs such as the Hammond B3, require special tonal treatment and this version is specifically engineered for them and designed to accommodate the  richer harmonics of strings, horns, pianos, and other digitally sampled sounds.
Guitar Preamps
Studio Platinum Series
Designed after the best of vintage fender designs, and paired with our output stage to drive a real Leslie cabinet.
Our best and quietest for demanding recording situations. These 2 channel preamps include unique features such as switchable Clone / Keyboard tone stacks and XLR balanced outputs.
Dyno and Dyno Hybrid Rhodes Preamps
The Dyno Stagebox offers the same fat funky tone as the old Dyno-My-Piano Pro EQ Preamp. Recreate the sounds that dominated the Top 40 and R&B scenes of the 70's and 80's. The punchy bass and sparkling highs made famous by so many artists can now be at your fingertips.

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The Suitcase version which is housed in the larger Rack Mount chassis boasts that same Dyno tone coupled with a real Ping Pong vibrato and our standard vacuum tube output stages.

Make your stage sound like a Suitcase plus give it true tube tone!
All about Vintage Tube Preamps
Why do you need a preamp?

It's important for the customer to understand that our preamps aren't just for amplifying sound. Our preamps serve a dual purpose, one is indeed to amplify the output of your keyboard when it's not enough to properly drive your amplifier, the other and most important purpose is to sculpt the tone of your instrument, to restore it's dynamic scope and clarity, and give it a warm pleasing tone that only a Speakeasy can deliver.

History of the Speakeasy Vintage Tube preamp line.

It all started some years ago, when our founder, a veteran musician, first turned to a "Clone" keyboard. After years of gigging with the real thing, he had decided, as many of you have, that a real B3 as too much to haul from gig to gig.

Trouble was he couldn't find that perfect simulation, something was missing (sound familiar?)  So with his musical talents in one hand, and his engineering skills in the other he set out to find the solution.

After a fashion, he emerged with the first Clone Classic preamp and the legend was born.

As time went on, he and our customers discovered other uses for this preamp and additional versions were added to the line. Including our most popular Leslie Preamps which can be configured to operate any of the standard Leslie models.

Today, we produce Clone preamps for the Hammond "clonewheel" synths, Keyboard preamps for standard digital synths, Guitar preamps for those who wish to play guitar through a Leslie™ cabinet, and Studio Platinum preamps for use in recording of Hammond clones or just about anything else.



                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

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