A-Designs VENTURAse Owner's Manual - Introduction
Introduction
Ventura
SE
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A-Designs Audio Inc.
Introduces the VENTURA
SE
A-Designs Audio Inc. is proud to produce a new improved design of the Ventura to professionals in audio recording.
We call it the VENTURA
SE
.
Our goal is to bring a high quality, high fidelity, solid state design to market that will integrate with the digital world
and at the same time deliver
analog warmth with a hint of color and richness to your recordings.
Hand-built in the US, this NEW A-Designs
’ device features three separate inputs and three separate outputs – microphone,
instrument and EQ
– which
may be used together or independently. The product is also equipped with a highly musical three-
band parametric EQ and high/low filters, as well as two independent transformer balanced XLR outputs - mic/instrument and
EQ.
The heart of the VENTURA
SE
is its specially designed discrete bipolar transistor operational amplifier that operates on
high voltage rails. This opamp is a high-gain, fast-slew rate, stable audio block with virtually no DC offset over the
audio spectrum and is capable of driving a very low load with little current draw. It is used in the microphone preamp,
instrument input amp and main and EQ and output stages.