The Cranborne Camden EC1 is a professional studio pre-amp. The EC-1 microphone, line and instrument preamp is an acclaimed Camden preamp with a Mojo analog saturation circuit and a reference-quality headphone amplifier.
The Camden EC1 has truly impressive low noise and low distortion performance, as well as frequency and phase linearity at all gain settings. The result is a stunningly clean, pristine and natural-sounding preamp. But now if you want a punchy, vintage sound character, that's where Cranborne's Mojo circuit comes in.
Got Mojo?
When you're looking for vintage, British sound character, Cranborne has developed the Mojo circuit, which allows you to choose two discrete analog saturation types (Thump and Cream) that can turn the pre-amp into the warmest, fattest, most characterful preamp in your studio. Turn the Mojo knob and make your sound smooth and subtle, punchy and in-your-face - or completely "out of circuit. The Cranborne Audio EC-1 pre-amp gives you the choice!
Transformerless Design
Without using the Mojo circuit, the Camden EC-1 is one of the cleanest, most linear, transparent and natural-sounding pre-amps we've tested here at Klundert Music. With a custom transformerless front-end topology with 68.5dB of gain (read along!), the Camden achieves amazingly low noise and low distortion specifications and also raises the bar for frequency and phase linearity: ±0.7dB frequency response from 5Hz to 200kHz at maximum gain and <2° phase shift at 50Hz to 20kHz. Now that's what we call high-end professional studio performance!
C.A.S.T.
The EC1 is equipped with Cranborne's innovative C.A.S.T. system. The system does away with excess cable clutter and delivers a cost-effective, low-maintenance, plug-and-play solution by transmitting balanced analog audio via Ethernet cable directly to/from a Cranborne 500R8 or a 500ADAT 500 Series rack. This allows you to cover vast distances without signal loss.
Cranborne Audio Camden EC1 features:
- discrete, ultra-transparent Mic/Line/hi-Z preamplifier with acclaimed Camden topology
- performance at near-theoretical limits of noise, distortion and phase/frequency linearity at all gain settings
- Mojo saturation circuit with Thump/Cream analog saturation types (bypassable if desired)
- headphone mixer with powerful reference-quality headphone amplifier and two output jacks
- balanced XLR output plus impedance-balanced ¼-inch output for maximum connectivity
- dedicated impedance-balanced ¼-inch Link output for splitting instrument DI to balanced/unbalanced amplifiers and effects
- external line input for connecting a mono playback source to the EC1's monitor signal path
- phantom power supply 48 V
- C.A.S.T. Out port for connecting Camden EC1 to 500R8/500ADAT and N22 C.A.S.T. breakout box
- incl. 24V power supply with lockable connector
