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If you decide your order isn't suitable for any reason you can return it - just let us know within 50 days of receiving it. Please keep hold of all the original packaging until you're sure you want to keep the order.
Eligibility for Money Back Guarantee
Important: For hygiene and software licensing reasons, some items are only eligible for our Money Back Guarantee if they are returned to us unused and sealed in the original packaging with all software still "unregistered." Details of exclusions are shown within the product descriptions. Products include:
- Monitors and Headphones
- Earplugs and Ear Protection
- Reeds and mouthpieces for woodwind and brass instruments
- Mouth and Lip-Care Products
- CDs, DVDs and Software
We can collect your return for a small fee, or you can send it back to us yourself. The collection fee can be found in the returns information on each product's page on Gear4music.
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This table provides an overview of your statutory consumer rights, compared with our standard returns policy and optional extended money back guarantee and warranty.
| UK & Europe | EU Standard | Gear4music Standard | Gear4music Optional |
|---|---|---|---|
| Return Period | 14 days | 50 days | up to 180 days |
| Standard delivery charges refunded? | Yes | Yes | Yes, up to 30 days |
| Upgraded delivery charges refunded? | Standard costs only | Standard costs only | Standard costs only |
| Free collection on cancellation | No | No | Yes, up to 30 days |
| Free collection if defective, delivered damaged or incorrect item | Yes, within 14 days | Yes, within 14 days | Yes, within 30 days |
We are unable to accept returns of any custom made items designed to work together as a unique package and some items are only eligible for money back guarantee if they are returned to us unused and sealed in the original packaging. For full information on our returns policy, please refer to our returns and refunds information guide.
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Key Features
Soundtoys Little Radiator 5 puts the power of vintage, analog hardware microphone preamplifiers into a convenient and intuitive plug-in for your DAW. Expertly recreated, the Little Radiator provides the exact sonic signature of the original with a sound that is indistinguishable from the original, letting you add the characteristic warmth and gain structure, harmonics and overdrive to your mixes. Through proprietary modelling, Little Radiator accurately achieves all the interactions between components that lead to the complex signal manipulation that makes analog hardware so desirable.
Featuring a sleek and streamlined interface, Little Radiator excels at providing the signature analog sound without the endless menu diving or difficult to navigate interfaces. A simple Heat dial tunes in the amount of gain you need, with a mix knob to perform parallel processing to your signal and two switches are all that is needed to transform your audio from sterile and anaemic to classic, warm and full-bodied analog sounding. The two features switches include a noise circuit that can clean up noise from your signal for the most accurate sound, or can be left on to add the subtle character that would be present using the original hardware counterpart and a Bias knob, that lets you change the gain structure of your input to create two different sounds, one that is more choppy and lo-fi and the other more modern and shaped.
Product Ref: 188788
Unmistakable in character and visual appearance, the green-faced Altec 1566A played a large part in defining the early sound of Motown records. Shaping the sound of some of the biggest hits released on the record label, the Little Radiator Mixer Amp achieves the same classic warmth and tone associated with the records of that era. Not just used by Motown producers, the Altec 1566A was used by a myriad of well-established industry professionals, such as Butch Vig, Billy Bush and even Matt Wallace.
Ever-growing in popularity, the Altec Mixers have been picked up by world-renowned recording studios as a way to add inexpensive, authentic tube sound to their repertoire. Now, this extremely desirable and classic piece of production history can help transform your sessions through a convenient plug-in for your DAW.
Little Radiator 5 achieves an unmistakable sound that's indistinguishable from the original hardware unit, delivering the coloured tube character and vibe. The microphone pres contain an extreme amount of gain, making it suitable to be used with a myriad of different sound sources, meaning as a mixing engineer you can be ready for any situation. Looking for something a little dirtier? Flip the Bias switch and dial in a slightly choppy, misaligned sound that’s perfect for lo-fi drums or adding grit to vocals. You can even choose to recreate the noise of the original preamp. Little Radiator has boatloads of colour and character. It’s just what you need to shake the “clean” off of your computer recordings.
The Little Radiator will quickly become your go-to for shaping and sculpting almost any element within your mix to instantly add vintage analog warmth and character, whether that's drums, bass, vocals, piano and more. For mixing engineers, this is a must-have in the studio when working with any kind of musician, whether that's an indie band looking for a vintage flair to their sound with the classic '60s warmth, or whether that's a contemporary pop musician looking to add hardware character to electronic instruments to help sit better within your mix, there's no limit on what you can effectively process with Little Radiator.
