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Vintage Neve 1073 8-Channel Mic Preamp EQ Racked with output trim and - $17,000 (Gadsden)
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Make your recordings slay with 8 Channels of the desirable Vintage Neve 1073 mic pre/EQs. These specimens are fully working, professionally racked up by Phoenix Audio in the and most importantly sound great. These are the pres that have been heard millions of times on thousands of classic and modern hit records.
Introduced in 1970 these are the classic Neve transformer designed preamp with EQ.
These preamps kill on vocals, drums, guitars, synths (using the mic or line input).
The 1073 is a design microphone/line preamplifier with three equalizer bands. The equalizer has a fixed high-frequency band and switchable low and midrange bands with cut and boost controls. There is also a passive third-order (18 dB/octave) high pass filter. Two switches were also fitted on the module's front panel for equalizer bypass and phase polarity. The 1073 module was designed to be part of the 80 series Neve console. It was never intended for use as a stand-alone module. It is now regarded as a "desert island" preamp by many recording engineers and has been used on a countless number of hit records over the past 30 years from Rock, Rap, Hip-hop, to Classical. The sound is described as very big, fat, and colored. The factor contributing to the larger than life sound is greatly attributed to the design of the transformer which seems to add subharmonics to the signal. The Equalizer section of the 1073 is regarded as very "musical" and practical and has become the favorite choice of many engineers for tracking and mixing.