- Product: Mk.pre
- Publisher: Audio Hertz
- Version: 1.0.0
- Format: VST3, AAX
- Requirements: Windows 10 or later
- Source: audiohertz.com/product/mkpre
Mk.pre delivers the legendary sound of the 424 MkI preamp. Reimagined as a plugin, it gives you rich, colorful cleans, gritty overdrive, and blown-out fuzz. This is the tone that defined 90s lo-fi and now drives today’s indie guitar scene.
The 424 transformed home recording in the ’80s and ’90s, bringing multitrack cassette decks into bedrooms and garages everywhere. Entire genres were born on these machines, from Springsteen’s Nebraska to underground hip-hop to DIY indie. The MkI model stood out for its raw, mid-forward preamp that could turn the simplest sound into something urgent and alive. Mk.pre captures that exact character and puts it in your DAW.