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Black Lion Audio Eighteen Channel Strip 2020 - 2021 - Black
£387
Price dropped from £390
Very GoodReverb16d ago
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Fuzz Nuts
Details
- First Seen
- 24 October 2026
- Last Seen
- 2 November 2026
- Times Seen
- 11
About this listing
Black Lion Audio Eighteen Channel Strip 2020 - 2021 - Black is a used item in very good condition, listed on Reverb. The asking price is £387. It is offered by Fuzz Nuts through Reverb. It is in our Preamps & Channel Strips category. Used Gear Hunter first saw this listing on 24 October 2026 and last saw it on 2 November 2026. It has been seen 11 times in our scans. Prices are converted from the seller's currency when we scan the listing, so the amount you pay may differ slightly. The seller sets shipping, and import duty or VAT may apply, so check the final cost and the item's details on Reverb before buying.
From the seller
A real sleeper of a channel strip. Really beefy transformer sound coupled with a Pultec EQ. one ear is slightly bent but sits flush in a rack. The Eighteen isn’t just a response to the fanfare of our Seventeen FET compressor — it’s a part of our dedication to create new homages to our favorite vintage products.
Eighteen starts with a vintage-inspired preamplifier, providing a creamy, yet punchy response. We’ve topped that off with a passive inductor-based program equalizer, and outputs controls for pushing the analog stages to pure overdriven-bliss. Eighteen’s preamplifier circuit isn’t just another clone, but an original design built to pay proper tribute to some of the most classic designs ever made.
The Eighteen starts with a Cinemag input transformer, but that’s far from where the magic stops.
In order to get the absolute perfect sound we were looking to achieve with Eighteen meant a bit more work under the hood. This is where our new BLA1831 custom, discrete op-amp comes into play. Through an extensive period of component matching, we were able to create a custom op-amp that matched the vibe we were aiming for, while still matching a noise floor that is akin to modern equipment.
Black Lion Audio’s Eighteen: designed, engineered, assembled, and tested in the USA