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UnderTone Audio Launches the GB Tracker and Satellite

UnderTone Audio Launches the GB Tracker and Satellite

The GB Tracker and Satellite offer a combination instrument DI and re-amplifying device, intended as an all-in-one solution for capturing a line level DI signal and re-amping it.


This unique design features detentā€™d gain-matching input and output level controls that allow you to always maintain a precise unity gain through the DI to re-amplification path. This, combined with the effort to match the most commonly used impedances on popular guitars, basses and amps, makes the GB-Tracker sonically transparent. A guitar or bass going through the GB-Tracker will sound exactly the same as plugging directly into your amp.

The Satellite puts the re-amplifying half of the GB Tracker in its own box, allowing you to send the DIā€™d signal to an amp in another room or daisy chain the signal to multiple amps. The ground and phase switches allow you to isolate the grounding and reverse the phase on each individual amp.

The recording process made possible by the GB-Tracker both simplifies the workflow AND adds tons of flexibility. Once you have captured and edited everything with the clean DI signal, you can then perfect the tone by re-amplifying the captured/edited performance through your favorite amps and mics.

GB Tracker MAP: $895.00US. Satellite MAP: $295.00US. View UnderTone Audio productsat: https://bit.ly/3s40fwX and https://bit.ly/3L27Jt1.

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