If you like your EQ vintage and hardware-based, you're going to find lots to like in Heritage Audio's new Elite Series Preamp & Preamp EQ
Hardware manufacturers Heritage Audio took time out at NAMM 2018 to show us their new Elite Series Preamp & Preamp EQ modules. Watch the video below to find out everything you need to know about this specialised studio hardware.
The ELITE series leverages the expertise gleaned from years of making acclaimed vintage-inspired equipment. For the HA73EQ ELITE, Heritage Audio set its target high: their own widely respected, hand-wired HA73jr and DMA73 preamps — themselves based on the most iconic vintage console preamp/EQ module in history, the 1073.
Heritage Audio HA73EQ ELITE Mic Preamp Features
Fully discrete, 3-stage Class A mic preamp with 80dB of gain
Industry standard Carnhill transformers hand-wound in St Ives, England
Separate input and output gain controls let you drive the input for saturation without overloading the output
Line input on separate XLR for adding warmth and girth to pre-recorded tracks
20dB PAD on the mic input to avoid overloading the input transformer when desired
LOZ switches the input impedance of the mic transformer from 200 to 50 ohms
Hollin Jones was classically trained as a piano player but found the lure of blues and jazz too much to resist. Graduating from bands to composition then production, he relishes the chance to play anything with keys.
A sometime lecturer in videographics, music production and photography post production, Hollin has been a freelance writer on music technology and Apple topics for well over a decade, along the way publishing several books on audio software. He has been lead writer at a number of prominent music and technology publications.
As well as consultancy, full-time journalism, video production and professional photography, he occasionally plays Hammond, Rhodes and other keys for people who ask nicely.
Hollin is Contributing Editor at Ask.Audio.
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