Chandler Limited 500-Series Little Devil Pre

Short Description:

Chandler's renowned Little Devil tone redesigned as a 500 series mic preamp and line driver! Featuring an abundance of tone controls and an incredible range of available "flavors", it's near impossible to make this pre sound bad even at it's most extreme settings. In Used, Excellent condition

What We Think:

The Chandler Limited Little Devil Pre is one of those mic pres that immediately feels alive the moment you pass signal through it.

At its core, it’s a Class A, discrete 500-series preamp with transformer-balanced I/O, but describing it that way almost undersells what it actually does. The Little Devil isn’t just about clean gain—it’s about attitude, texture, and shaping the personality of a source in a very intentional way.

What really sets it apart is the Feedback/Bias control. That single feature takes the pre from open and punchy into increasingly harmonically rich territory, letting you move from relatively clean, forward tones to something thicker, softer, and almost tube-like in the way it saturates. It’s one of those controls that rewards experimentation because there are so many usable sounds hiding in it.

Sonically, it has a big, confident sound. The low end feels solid and weighty, the mids push forward in a really satisfying way, and the top end stays smooth even when you’re driving it hard. There’s a certain immediacy to it that works especially well on guitars, drums, vocals, and bass DI.

And that DI deserves mention on its own. Plugging instruments straight into the front panel feels less like using a utility input and more like running through a dedicated tone box. Bass and synths in particular can sound huge through it, especially once you start leaning into the gain staging and feedback controls.

What we appreciate most about the Little Devil Pre is that it encourages commitment. It’s not a transparent “capture exactly what’s there” type of preamp—it wants to participate in the sound. And when you lean into that philosophy, it becomes an incredibly inspiring piece to track through.

For engineers looking for a 500-series preamp with serious personality, musical saturation, and the unmistakable Chandler sense of vibe, the Little Devil Pre absolutely lives up to its name.

Manufacturer Description:

CHANDLER LIMITED furiously enters the 500 race with its new line of 500 Series Modules for your favorite lunch box! Using all discrete circuits that combine Chandler’s best designs with the hottest designs from the past, transformer balanced everything, and the American handmade quality you expect from Chandler, the 500 Series Modules will take your lunchbox or rack system to the next level!   We’ve been told by beta testers that this might be the best piece of Chandler gear yet! What makes the Little Devil Pre so special? Well, several things.   The Class A gain stage sounds like no other design we’ve done. It’s big, yet open and full of life. Just about any parameter of the sound is changeable including the ability to change both the Feedback and Bias of the amplifier. The Feedback control increases harmonics thousands of times over the range of the control. The nature of clipping and distortion also changes and ranges from soft Class A clipping to super soft gushy tube type. The sounds range from a very colored and “overbiased” tone to a gently colored and “in your face” tone.   Other features of the Little Devil Pre include High and Low input impedance; transformer balanced line in for using the Devil as a color box on mixes or tracks; low cut; bright switch and more! This unit has no power-up issues with lunchboxes and rack systems.   All Chandler 500 series units have now been tested and proven to have no power issues in the following racks:  API 500V 10-slot with L200 PSU; API 500-6B Lunchbox; API 500-6B HC “new version” Lunchbox; BAE 11-slot with power one supply; BAE 6-slot portable with power one supply; BAE 6-slot with Avedis designed supply; A-Designs 2-slot; Purple Sweet 10; and Empirical Labs 2-slot.

Specifications:

FORMAT: 500 Series CHANNELS: Mono CIRCUIT: Class A, Discrete, Transistor GAIN: max 66.5db   CONNECTIONS I/O: 500 Series Enclosure Mic Input, Transformer Balanced, Input Impedance: 300 Ohm or 1200 Ohm Line input, Transformer Balanced, Input Impedance: 10k DI: 1/4″ Unbalanced PHANTOM POWER: +48v

Product Specs:

• Condition: Excellent (Used)
• Brand: Chandler Limited
• Model: Little Devil Preamp 500 Series Mic Pre Module
• Categories: 500 Series