Product Category: Mic Preamps

JoeMeek ThreeQ Pro Channel Mic Preamp/EQ/Compressor (Open Box)

The Joemeek threeQ is the perfect link between your music and your computer. It will bring out the best qualities or your music by giving it the "gloss" of a professional recording studio, at a fraction of the cost!

Built into a compact rack chassis, we used the same Burr-Brown IC's for the Mic Pre that you'll find on our more expensive studio channels. We then added an extremely musical EQ section and an optical Compressor, for that signature "Meek" sound.

With inputs to accept everything between microphone and instrument levels, the threeQ sounds much larger than it's size!

REVIEW:

Impressive! - Pro Audio Review
"The addition of Burr-Brown VCAs in the input section, sealed Silonex opto-isolator in the compressor section, toroidal transformer in the power supply, custom-machined knobs, high-quality potentiometers and switches, and through-circuit board components (no more surface-mounted parts!) raise the consistency in performance and quality of sound of this unit to the level of channel strips costing three to four times as much! At the same time, the list price has dropped from $399 to $299... The reborn ThreeQ can still perform like the best of the Meeks, but thanks to the increased range of compressor settings and improvements in the signal path, many other uses are now possible... Much-appreciated new features include the multisegment gain-reduction meter, sweepable mid-band EQ, expanded compression controls, enlarged output meter and front panel mic/line switch."

Input impedances:
Mic: 1.2kohm; Line: 20kohm
Pre-amp overall gain: 0dB to 60dB
Common mode rejection: 70dB
Equivalent input noise: -128.5dBu (unweighted)
Distortion: 0.001% (below Compressor threshold)
Frequency response: 10Hz to 70kHz (-3dB)
Maximum input before clipping:
Mic: +19.5dBu; Line: +44.5dBu
Headroom before clipping: +19.5dBu
Compressor threshold: -6dBu to +20dBu (variable)
Compressor ratio: 5:1 (typical)
Compressor attack time: 1 msec to 100 msec (adaptive)
Compressor release time: 0.1 sec to 3 sec (adaptive)
Nominal output levels: +4dBu/-10dBv
Output impedance: 75ohm
Output Level switch: 12dB attenuation
Noise Floor: -85dBu (typical, with ~40dB mic gain)
VU Meter: 8 segment bargraph
Power supply: 12V ac mains adaptor
Power consumption: 12W
Mechanical: 220W x 44H x 180D (overall)
Weight: 1 kilo
EQ Boost and Cut: +/-15dB (zero phase-shift bell response)
LF Frequency : 80Hz fixed
MID Frequency : 300Hz to 5kHz variable
HF Frequency : 12kHz fixed

MORE INFO:

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