Rupert Neve Designs Portico 511 500-Series Mic Preamp with Texture Control

Rupert Neve Designs Portico 511 500-Series Mic Preamp with Texture Control - With a big, bold preamp and the flexibility of variable Silk/Texture, Rupert Neve designed 511 to combine classic sonics with 500-series value. Incorporating 517's powerful preamp, 5012's universally useful sweepable high pass filter, transformer-saturating power silk circuit derived from Neve's flagship Portico II Channel, is Neve-designed mic pre for masses. While it's challenging design modules that are equal their non-500 series counterparts, team at experimented number different transformer designs so they could achieve same presence sweetness found in standard Series making them perfectly suited highest caliber studio environments.Input SectionInput signals may be Mic or Line sources (make sure 48V off line sources!). The input has 10K ohm non-reactive resistance handles full 22dBu signal without need pad. pre-amp TLA precludes loading microphones limited driving capability. A primary gain control provides 66dB 6dB increments easy recall, +/- trim fine adjustment. For condenser powered DIs, there +48V phantom power. transient-optimized HPF continuously covering range 20-250Hz included tame rumble proximity effect.TextureOne key developments Red Silk / Texture Channel. Building on "Silk" mode pre-amplifiers, adjust actual amount harmonic music content source material, effect, providing wide tonal options preamplifier. Like original Silk, works by reducing negative feedback output adjusting frequency response more closely resemble Mr. vintage designs. 511, allows these techniques pushed further than previous designs, adding about 10 times desirable THD its maximum setting.Low Noise, Low Distortion OperationMuch care was given designing produce as little noise non-harmonic distortion possible. Carefully implemented paths Class operation large part 511‚Ä?s sweet, whisper quiet performance. information, go Design Notes.Why Transformers?The subtleties relating sonic performance gradually becoming clearly understood. example, research shown conclusively frequencies above 20kHz affect way which humans perceive sound quality. But, long before scientific evidence emerged substantial body musicians pro-audio, Signal Processors, Microphone Preamps