Takamine CT4BII

This is the best preamp in the Tak range. It has great features on it. One thing that is great is that the cuts and boosts are in the + or - 5db range which is much better that the crazy 12db that is on some units. The built in tuner is accurate and fast. The mute button is very handy for stage tuning in the middle of gigs.

Easy to install and use. The graphic allows a range of sound colours whilst not being too complex or detracting from the guitars natural tones. The tuner is convenient and user friendly.

Needed to replace my preamp in my baby of almost 20 years, and now we are back in business. all is perfect.

Kudos to Takamine for making new preamps, that are a direct plug-in replacement for even very old discontinued models. Well done.

I will definitely buy more

Bought a CT4BII preamp and it came quick and worked great.

This is the perfect easy to install replacement for a very old, lacking power original. In my case I had the parametric one that has the rep that it fails so this was different but absolutely a great replacement - and it had a tuner that the old one didn't. If you look online you'll find the instructions for how to change this in the guitar - it's very easy and less than a 5 minute job almost anyone can do. This version is a straight up preamp and is pretty featureless - but it does the job very well.