Hand Wired Tube Preamp Pedals

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It's no secret that over the years amp techs have reverse engineered the original Dumble Overdrive Special circuits from amps they have had on their benches, leading to some amazing D clones on the market.  The Malin D-Type Preamp Pedal takes this one step further.  The D-Type is a fully hand-wired D-style preamp circuit in a pedal format.  It not a 9 volt overdrive pedal providing only a narrow slice of the tonal rainbow -- the Malin D-Type Preamp Pedal is the whole preamp running at real amp voltages (upwards of 200V DC on the plates) giving you the entire tonal spectrum, responsiveness and sensitivity.  

The D-Type can be used in front of your favorite amp (or whatever they give you in the back line!) to give you the tone you’re used to anywhere. It can also be used to drive the Power Amp In (Effects Loop Return) of any amp. The D-Type Preamp Pedal takes other pedals well, and works well with your pedal board in front of it (just as you would the preamp section of your amp). It is small, powerful and versatile, but most importantly, it IS a D-style circuit—no corners cut, no printed circuit boards, no wave soldered capacitors, no transistors, no op-amps—this is a real hand-wired point-to-point preamp in a small package!

• Hand Wired Point-to-Point
• Real Tube Amp Plate Voltages
• All Tube—(two 12AX7 tubes)
• Foot Switchable Clean and Overdrive
• True Bypass
• 120VAC/60 Hz

Every Malin Preamp Pedal is hand built individually, one at a time.  The build cycle is roughly 1 per month.  A deposit of $600.00 will reserve the next available build month, with the balance plus shipping due when your preamp is complete.  Each one is carefully crafted by hand, point-to-point construction, each component is chosen specifically, and every amp is  tested thoroughly. No amplifier will leave the bench until it is tone tweaked, tested and sounding right!

• $1900 + shipping 

“…the preamp sounded amazing. It’s like a work of art.” — Phil (Know Your Gear)

I’ve had this idea for years—why mess around with solid state pedals if you can have your entire D tone stack, preamp and controls in a small package—all tube—all point-to-point!  The Malin D-Type Preamp Pedal is a fully hand wired boutique preamp that embodies all the D-style tone, because it has all the real circuitry. Being hand build, each component is chosen, measured and correctly oriented and care is taken to route wires the way they should be.

“…WOW, the harmonics are stunning...” — D.K. (customer)

Just like any ODS-style amp, the D-Type Preamp Pedal has the controls you’d expect.  Jazz/Rock, 3-way Bright Switch, Mid-Boost, and the full tone stack (Treb, Mid, Bass). Pre-amp Volume and Master operate as they should, both in Clean or O/D settings, and the Overdrive “Drive” and “Level” controls are just as they should be.

“…an absolute home run as far as I'm concerned...” — Robert  (customer)

The D-Type Preamp Pedal can be used in front of your favorite amp (or whatever they give you in the backline) to give you the tone you’re used to anywhere. It can also be used to drive the Power Amp In (Effects Loop Return) of any amp.  The D-Type Preamp Pedal takes other pedals well, and works well with your pedal board in front of it (just as you would the preamp section of your amp). It is small, powerful and versatile, but most importantly, it IS a D-style circuit—no corners cut, no printed circuit boards, no wave soldered caps, no transistors, no op-amps—this is a real hand-wired point-to-point circuit in a small package!

What if you could fit an entire hand-wired Plexi, JMP and JCM preamp into your carry-on luggage, plug it in to any backline they give you and have the legendary Marshall tube tone anywhere you go? Not transistorized, “simulated” Marshall. The real deal!!  The Malin Amplification M-Type Preamp Pedal is not an overdrive pedal, it’s not an effect, it is a fully hand-wired point-to-point Marshall-style preamp in a small package! No corners cut, no printed circuit boards, but the real deal, from the correct components down to the plate voltages. Plug in to the front end of any amp, or the Power Amp In (Effects Loop Return) and you have historic Marshall tone!

• Hand Wired Point-to-Point
• Real Tube Amp Plate Voltages
• All Tube—(two 12AX7 tubes)
• 3 Gain Voicings—Vintage, Classic, Modern
• True Bypass
• 120VAC/60 Hz

Every Malin Preamp Pedal is hand built individually, one at a time.  The build cycle is roughly 1 per month.  A deposit of $600.00 will reserve the next available build month, with the balance plus shipping due when your preamp is complete.  Each one is carefully crafted by hand, point-to-point construction, each component is chosen specifically, and every amp is  tested thoroughly. No amplifier will leave the bench until it is tone tweaked, tested and sounding right!

• $1400 + shipping

The idea for this preamp came from a restoration I did on a vintage Marshall JCM amp several years ago.  When I got the JCM up and running, plugged in my Les Paul and played a big fat chord, it hit me. Nothing sounds like a Marshall! The more research I did on the vintage Marshall preamp sections, the more I realized the similarities between the original Plexi, the JMP I used in the 70's and the JCM 800/900.  More research and tweaking and I came up with a way to toggle between these 3 "voicings" in a single preamp platform. That was the birth of the Malin Amplification M-Type Preamp Pedal.

Ken Fisher was a brilliant designer. In his Trainwreck amplifiers he came up with a way to build a clean preamp that drives the heck out of the Phase Inverter in front of the power amp section. The cool thing is, you can get this sparkly clean when you back off your guitar volume, but dial up the volume and the TW explodes with crazy beautiful overdrive. Ken's true design relies heavily on the Phase Inverter, and that's something you only find in a Class AB amplifier (because it splits the signal into 2, one half goes to one tube, the other half to the other power tube).  Be cautious when someone says they have built a "Trainwreck Overdrive Pedal." It may simulate that sound of but it can't be the real thing—there's no Phase Inverter! What I've done in the Malin T-Type is come up with a way to take the original design and add another tube section to behave like the Phase Inverter—problem solved!

• Hand Wired Point-to-Point
• Real Tube Amp Plate Voltages
• All Tube—(two 12AX7 tubes)
• True Bypass
• 120VAC/60 Hz

Every Malin Preamp Pedal is hand built individually, one at a time.  The build cycle is roughly 1 per month.  A deposit of $600.00 will reserve the next available build month, with the balance plus shipping due when your preamp is complete.  Each one is carefully crafted by hand, point-to-point construction, each component is chosen specifically, and every amp is  tested thoroughly. No amplifier will leave the bench until it is tone tweaked, tested and sounding right!

• $1800 + shipping