Rupert Neve Designs 5012 Portico 2 Channel Microphone Pre Amplifier

Rupert Neve Designs 5012 Portico 2 Channel Microphone Pre Amplifier
Rupert Neve Designs 5012 Portico 2 Channel Microphone Pre Amplifier
Rupert Neve Designs 5012 Portico 2 Channel Microphone Pre Amplifier

Rupert Neve Designs 5012 Portico 2 Channel Microphone Pre Amplifier

Rupert Neve has been the called the Godfather and Pioneer of Audio Engineering for over 60 years. This is his flagship preamp (This one here listed is his very first version hence the different color interface) Neve pre amps have been a staple in the recording industry for many years and have been on countless hit records. 2-channel microphone preamp with phantom power and a "Silk" circuit for vintage-style tone The Portico 5012 is a dual channel mic pre featuring Neve's custom input and output transformer designs.

In addition to individually selectable phase, mute, phantom power and a fully sweepable high pass filter, the 5012 incorporates a "Silk" circuit which yields the rich warmth and presence of the renowned classic designs. The microphone input is balanced but not floating, being a variant of an instrumentation amplifer using a "Transformer-Like-Amplifier" T.

Configuration with a toroidal Common Mode Rejection Low Pass Filter that excludes frequencies above 150 kHz. Is followed by an actual input transformer permitting a full +25 dBu input signal to be handled at unity gain without an input pad over the whole audio spectrum. This combines the advantages of both an "Electronically Balanced" and true transformer input. When the Phantom voltage is switched off, this input serves as a very high quality line input with an impedance of 10,000 ohms.

Low Noise, Low Distortion Operation. Much care was given in designing the 5012 to produce as little noise and non-harmonic distortion as possible. Carefully implemented signal paths and Class A operation are a large part of the 5012's sweet, whisper quiet performance. A complete discussion on transformers is out of place at this point but a technical discussion will be posted at a later date. Here it is helpful to review some of the essentials where it will be seen that a design needs to be viewed as a whole, not simply from the point of view of a single component.

The fine subtleties of circuit design relating to sonic performance are gradually becoming more clearly understood. For example, research has shown conclusively that frequencies above 20 kHz affect the way in which humans perceive sound quality. But, long before scientific evidence emerged a substantial body of musicians and engineers knew that equipment with apparently the same technical measurements could sound very different. Incredibly small amounts of musically dissonant odd harmonics have a disastrous effect on the sound quality.

Extraneous noise or interference that finds its way into a signal path seriously impairs performance of the whole chain. Many control rooms make use of outboard gear that is not well protected from external signals. Poor grounding of such equipment can be a serious problem. "Electronically balanced" circuits much used in modern equipment, can give very good measurements on the test bench but they do not provide adequate rejection of the stray fields found in every working environment. Input and output circuits must be freed from ground dependence so that only the "wanted" signal enters and leaves the processing path. Transformers are the ideal solution. The sweet and silky sound of my classic old favorite consoles was achieved with big transistors and large high quality transformers.

Rupert Neve Designs Portico modules achieve similar quality today without the bulk or the cost. In order that modules can work together as would be expected i.

In a proprietary console configuration without producing hum, R. Interference, or other interactions, the connecting interfaces, grounding, levels and impedances must receive careful attention.

Each Portico module is a complete integral signal processor that delivers its specified performance independently. This is one of the reasons we use transformers. The item "Rupert Neve Designs 5012 Portico 2 Channel Microphone Pre Amplifier" is in sale since Tuesday, December 19, 2017.

This item is in the category "Musical Instruments & Gear\Pro Audio Equipment\Preamps & Channel Strips". The seller is "kmurph360" and is located in Picayune, Mississippi. This item can be shipped to United States.


Rupert Neve Designs 5012 Portico 2 Channel Microphone Pre Amplifier