Doug Turkel
Liz Atherton
Joel Snyder
Tom Antonellis
Marc Preston
The Grace Design m201mk2 streamlines the company’s 2-channel microphone preamp concept by paring away all redundant functionality in favor of optimized, audiophile-grade preamp performance. While its predecessor offered converters and an M-S matrix, the m201mk2 is simply a whole lot of preamp for the money. This makes sense, as you likely already have an interface — and if you don’t, we can highly recommend Grade Design’s own m108 8-channel mic preamp A/D, a best-seller here at Sweetwater. These refinements also make Grace Design’s flagship mic preamp performance accessible to small personal and project studios as well as world-class commercial facilities.
Capture the sonic essence of any source
Audio purists to a fault, Grace refined the m201mk2’s fully balanced signal path to achieve a stunning new level of dynamic range. They also designed an entirely new power supply that delivers lower noise specs than any previous Grace Design. It all adds up to a 2-channel preamp that will take your recordings to new heights of liquid clarity and nuance while capturing the sonic essence of any source. Featuring massive headroom, ultra-wide bandwidth, a beautifully open, highly musical character — and a down-to-earth price tag — the Grace Design m201mk2 is an amazing value.
Supercharge your mic locker
You’ll be amazed at how the Grace Design m201mk2 transforms every mic you own into a star performer. Your go-to vocal mics will sound better than ever. Your workhorse dynamics will reveal detail you had no idea they could capture. And your passive ribbon mics will be supercharged by Grace’s proprietary Ribbon Mode, which shifts the gain range up 10dB and deactivates phantom power while bypassing the decoupling capacitors and optimizing the input impedance. As you will undoubtedly notice, the m201mk2 specs out like a preamp costing many times more, so you’re getting Grace Designs’ flagship performance for a price any recording engineer can afford. But hearing is believing! Step up to a new level of purist mic preamp performance with the Grace Design m201mk2.
Grace Design m201mk2 2-channel Microphone Preamp Features:
- Extracts maximum performance from every mic in your locker
- Proprietary Ribbon Mode optimizes ribbon mic performance
- Enormous headroom, ultra-wide bandwidth:
- 3.2Hz–530kHz (± 3dB, 150Ω source, 20dB gain)
- 14.8Hz–109kHz ( ± 0.2dB, 150Ω source, 20dB gain)
- 3.2Hz–500kHz (± 3dB, 150Ω source, 40dB gain)
- 15.4Hz–103kHz ( 0.2dB, 150Ω source, 40dB gain)
- Ultra-low harmonic distortion (THD+NP):
- At 20dB gain +20dBu out, 1kHz: <.0008%
- At 40dB gain +20dBu out, 1kHz: <.0009%
- At 60dB gain +20dBu out, 1kHz: <.0070%
- Ultra-low Intermodulation distortion:
- SMPTE/DIN 1:1 (50Hz, 7kHz): <.0007%
- SMPTE/DIN 4:1 (50Hz, 7kHz): <.009%
- Noise (referred to input):
- At 60dB gain, 50Ω source 22-22kHz: -130dB
- At 60dB gain, 150Ω source 22-22kHz: -127dB
- Phase deviation:
- At 40dB gain 40Ω source 75Hz-45kHz: <3°
- Crosstalk:
- Any Channel @40dB gain, 1kHz: -140dB
- Any Channel @40dB gain, 10kHz: -130dB
- CMMR:
- At 60dB gain, 3.5Vcm, 1KHz: >85dB
- At 60dB gain, 3.5Vcm, 10KHz: >75dB
- Switchable phantom power:
- Voltage +48V: ±1.0V
- 6.8kΩ resistor match tolerance: ±0.1%
- Maximum Output Level: 1kHz, 100KΩ load: +28dBu
- Impedance:
- Input Nominal: 8100Ω
- Input Ribbon Mode: 20KΩ
- Input Pad Engaged: 1.3KΩ
- Output: 150Ω
- Power Consumption
- 100-240VAC 50/60Hz: 10 Watts max
- Polarity invert; 20dB pad
- Rear-panel, per-channel I/O: 1 XLR Mic input, 2 XLR line outputs
- 1U 19″ rackmount chassis