Tierra Audio Flavours Preamps

With the diverse array of flavors available, you can experience various levels of gain, ranging from an enriched and clear sound to a variety of "sonic flavors" meticulously crafted to impart a distinctive character, all while preserving the essence of musicality.

This provides warmer tones, sharper or more intense sounds, denser textures, increased saturation, heightened definition, additional grain, or even a more crunchy quality, ensuring a versatile audio experience.

Put them in the backpack, keep them in the guitar case, purse, or the car’s glove box.

They are ultra-compact and don’t need batteries or additional power cables, so you can use them comfortably not only at home or in the recording studio but also in the rehearsal room, in your live concerts, in your streaming and videoconference sessions, or working on your productions all over the city, or while traveling or on vacation.

Tierra Audio have meticulously crafted SEVEN distinct flavors, presenting an exceptionally versatile sonic spectrum to enhance the audio quality of your lead vocals, choirs, Spanish guitars, acoustic guitars, electric guitars, bass amplifiers, and an array of string instruments like violins, cellos, or double basses, as well as percussion instruments. In essence, our designs cater to any voice or instrument that can be captured by a microphone.

Boosted Sound • Ultra Transparent • Precision and Realism

When the flavour you already have in a dish is 100% what you are looking for, but you would like to enhance it, what do you use? A pinch of salt, exactly!

Salt is their most neutral and transparent flavour, that is, without adding a speck of flavour, colour, or distortion to your sound.

This preamp is perfect for use with your Shure SM7B microphone without adding colour, or your favorite passive ribbon microphones, protecting them from the possible adverse effects of phantom power and preserving all the original nuances while amplifying the weak signal usually generated by this type of mics so that you have no noise at the input of your audio interface when trying to compensate for that low signal.

FOR AUDIO GEEKS:

• BOOSTED GAIN: +32 dB.
• FREQUENCY FILTER: none, transparent.
• HARMONIC DISTORTION: none, transparent.
• INPUT TRANSFORMER: none.

Defined Sound • Compression • Fast Transients • Even Harmonics

Pepper brings a very defined sound, with a pinch of compression, slightly spicy but without getting hard distortion at the highest levels of signal, as is the case with Chilli, its big brother.

Its fast response to transients and its excellent level of gain will help you get a better sound in voices of many different pitches and achieve recordings of guitars and percussion instruments with a definition that will not leave you indifferent.

The compression effect it provides is perfect for live vocals in musical styles such as rock, and heavy, and its infinite variations.

FOR AUDIO GEEKS:

• BOOSTED GAIN: +32 dB.
• FREQUENCY FILTER: moderate compression, perfect for live performances.
• HARMONIC DISTORTION: very soft, only on very signal peaks.
• INPUT TRANSFORMER: none.

Creamy Sound • Slow Transients • Odd Harmonics

Vanilla brings a more creamy and controlled sound that will delight all lovers of warm vocals.

If you write your own songs and play them on guitar or piano: this is the perfect flavor for you.

Also its very suitable for full-bodied choirs, and the recording of string instruments with a moderately thick sound, from guitars to violins, cellos, basses, and even ukuleles.

FOR AUDIO GEEKS:

• BOOSTED GAIN: +31 dB.
• FREQUENCY FILTER: more middle.
• HARMONIC DISTORTION: odd harmonics, slow response to transients.
• INPUT TRANSFORMER: Lundahl®.

Aggressive Sound • In-Your-Face • Very Fast Transients • Even Harmonics

Chilli is our most wild flavour and, without a doubt, the crispy and sharpest.

Its very suitable for urban vocals as RAP or TRAP, because can bring an amazing energy and A LOT OF presence: voices in-your-face!

Also, many acoustic guitarists, drummers and percussionists will want to carry one under their arm at all times.

FOR AUDIO GEEKS:

• BOOSTED GAIN: +54 dB.
• FREQUENCY FILTER: none.
• HARMONIC DISTORTION: even harmonics, crispy sound with hard compression of peaks.
• INPUT TRANSFORMER: Lundahl®.

Fresh Sound • Slightly Bright • Delicate and Musical

Mint offers a very fresh sound, rich in treble and with a slightly bright amplification.

Perfect for enhancing your darker voices, instruments or microphones, such as the Shure SM7B and most ribbon microphones.

FOR AUDIO GEEKS:

• BOOSTED GAIN: +27 dB.
• FREQUENCY FILTER: less bass, more treble.
• HARMONIC DISTORTION: soft even harmonics, fast response to transients.
• INPUT TRANSFORMER: Lundahl®.

Dense Sound • Slow Transients • Warm and Colour

Cocoa brings a thick, dense character to your sound, with less treble and with a interesting “de-esser” effect.

It’s perfect for microphones used for podcasting, streaming and locutions. but, if you want to add a lot of colour in your music to your vocals, guitars, strings, drums… Cocoa will not leave you indifferent.

FOR AUDIO GEEKS:

• BOOSTED GAIN: +42 dB.
• FREQUENCY FILTER: more middle, less treble.
• HARMONIC DISTORTION: odd harmonics, slow response to transients.
• INPUT TRANSFORMER: exclusive Carnhill®, like our Lava Preamp.

Intense Sound • Hard Saturation • Daring and Exclusive

Truffle, our most daring and exclusive sound. It brings an abundant amount of saturation to the sound. From the beginning, you will hear a very evident but contained and musical distortion. Many of you will enjoy this new alternative for your voices, but also for your drums and percussions.

It’s not a flavour for everyone or with which to dress up all your recordings, but a pinch on the right voice or instrument will delight your audience.

FOR AUDIO GEEKS:

• BOOSTED GAIN: +50 dB.
• FREQUENCY FILTER: less treble.
• HARMONIC DISTORTION: A lot of musical distortion provided by its exclusive germanium diodes.
• INPUT TRANSFORMER: Lundahl®.