I have one. It is a hybrid circuit with a solid state front end and a tube back end (or middle?). Anyway it is *not* a starved plate design and actually sounds OK, better then the pres in the mackie board I was using at the time I bought it. It isn't especially noisy, but doesn't have a huge amount of gain so I find I don't use it as much on very quiet things or with ribbon mics. Sounds cool on electric guitars, bass amps and the like. The DI is pretty good too, warm sounding. The "peak" light is weird on these things, I ignore it. It has something to do with how hard the tube is being hit.
Anyway I've been slowly building & acquiring (Grace, Avalon) better pres so I'd probably part with it if anyone is interested. PM me.
jp