Top 10 best-selling Preamplifiers

The Audient ASP800 is an 8-channel microphone preamp that will turn your recordings from mediocre to amazing. It's equipped with Audient's renowned console mic preamps.

The Golden Age Audio Pre-73 DLX Premier microphone preamp/DI is a high-end sonic colouring set that owes its character-packed sound to class-A components and features an Air EQ function and versatile high-pass filter.

The Focusrite Clarett+ OctoPre is an 8-in/8-out ADAT preamp/audio interface that harnesses the sound of the renowned Focusrite Studio Console. Capture audio sources with maximum detail via eight clean-and-discrete preamps.

Featuring SuperAnalogue PureDrive microphone preamp technology, the Solid State Logic PureDrive OCTO harks back to the glory days of the ORIGIN console from the '80s.

The Audient ASP880 is undoubtedly one of the world's best microphone preamplifiers. It features a sleek design and a robust housing.

Warm Audio's WA73-EQ is a modern tribute to the legendary Neve 1073, which was known as the Holy Grail of British EQ preamps. The WA73-EQ accurately reproduces this highly-acclaimed preamp.

Armed with SuperAnalogue PureDrive mic preamps based on the same preamps that powered the original SSL Origin console from the 1980s, the Solid State Logic PureDrive QUAD boasts superb sonic clarity and punch alongside the flexibility to shape warm, harmonically rich sound.

Running out of inputs? If you're working with an audio interface fitted with one or more ADAT inputs, then you can expand the setup by hooking up the neat EVO SP8 preamp and add an extra eight inputs and eight outputs.

The DBX 286S is a channel strip with microphone preamplifier, compressor, expander/gate and de-esser. It has the famous DBX quality of OverEasy.

The Warm Audio WA-2MPX is a highly accurate reproduction of the AMPEX 351 tube microphone preamp, the legendary preamp that helped produce every well-known record from the '50s and '60s.