October 24, 2006
AES 2006 Wrap Up
The Porticoâ„¢ 5042, winner of the 2006 TEC award for hardware signal processing, provides a remarkable simulation of true tape sound through the inclusion of genuine tape drive circuitry.
The Porticoâ„¢ 5042, winner of the 2006 TEC award for hardware signal processing, provides a remarkable simulation of true tape sound through the inclusion of genuine tape drive circuitry.
Mr. Rupert Neve is returning to mixing console design and manufacturing with the introduction of the Rupert Neve Designs 5088 discrete analogue mixer.
Mr. Rupert Neve, a pioneer of analogue mixing console design,. Technical GRAMMY winner and founder of Rupert Neve Designs Inc. achieved yet another milestone on July 31st when he celebrated his 80th birthday.
Rupert Neve Designs announces the launch of the Portico 5033 Five Band Equalizer and High Performance Line Driver as part of the growing family of half rack Portico series modules.
In feedback mode, when the 5043 emulates the vintage units, it’s ridiculous. It’s basically the best sounding 33609 I’ve heard.”
Full-service remote recording specialists Watermark Communications, Inc. have purchased 16 channels of the new Rupert Neve Designs Portico 5012 Duo Mic Pre. The eight dual-channel microphone preamplifier units have been installed in the company’s mobile recording facility.
Midas Studios, the largest full-service music and media production company in western Finland, has purchased 16 channels of Rupert Neve Designs Portico 5012 Duo Mic Preamplifiers.
Rupert Neve Designs, Inc.
announces the launch of the Portico 5043 Limiter-Compressor Duo,
delivering two channels of unobtrusive, musical-sounding dynamics as well as brickwall limiting in a half rack 1RU space. The 5043 Limiter-Compressor features fully controllable dual mono or stereo operation plus innovative feedforward/feedback detection switching and yields a combination of rich warmth, flexibility and precision that is sure to resonate in the ears of sound engineers the world over.
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Bill Sgambati has installed 8 channels of Rupert Neve Designs Portico 5042 “True Tape” emulation and line driver at his Infinitum Productions facility in New York’s Hudson Valley.
“We chose the Portico modules because of their sound, their solid ‘forever’ quality of construction, and their elegant simplicity. We also needed our tracking modules to be arranged vertically for control room flow. Portico was the right answer for all these reasons.
Rupert Neve Designs launched the new single-channel Portico 5032 Mic Pre/EQ at the 119th AES Convention. The Portico 5032 shares the same half rack space form factor and features of the Portico 5012 Mic Pre Duo with the addition of a flexible 3-band equalizer that is equally suited for tracking and mix duties.
Rupert Neve Designs has launched the Portico 5042 Two-Channel “True Tape” Emulation and Line Driver, the second in an ever expanding series of all-analogue products designed to be used either individually, or as one of the principal sound control elements of an integrated Portico system.