The original Neve 1073 is the "Holy Grail" of mic pre/EQ's in the recording world but that comes with a huge price tag and because of age usually no sure bet that it will work for years after your purchase. We had an artist in the studio who rented a Vintage pair of 1073's for his project and all the engineers here fell in love with them until the project was over and they were sent back to Blackbird. So the search started for a cost effective way to get that sound back. We found Heritage Audio and were so happy that we became a Heritage dealer.


We are constantly searching for gear that has a unique character that it imparts on the audio that you pass through it and Heritage Audio does just that, gives you very close to the vintage Neve sound at 1/4 to 1/3 of the price of the vintage original 

We are an authorized Heritage Audio dealer located between Chicago and Milwaukee. We are a Pro Audio Dealer as well as a four control room Neve & SSL equipped commercial recording studio with several engineers that have from five to twenty five years of experience in the industry. So who better to trust with your equipment purchases than guys who are tracking, mixing and using the gear on a daily basis. The Heritage Audio gear is as close to the original as we have found with a Class-A all discrete component design.

We ship our orders out quickly, and provide experienced advice and great service should you have any problems. Thank you for looking at our auction.

The info from Heritage Audio

The Heritage Audio MCM-8 standing for Music Compact Mixer 8, the MCM-8 is an 8 slot 500 Series enclosure with 10 channel mixing capabilities and it's the Top of the Line of the new Heritage Audio "ON SLOT" Technology (OTS) 500 Series enclosures.

"ON SLOT TECHNOLOGY" takes advantage of last generation power electronics to handle power supply on a "per slot" basis. Each slot has its own power supply linear regulation stages, therefore modules are isolated from the rest. They just share the metal enclosure.

With literally hundreds of brands making 500 series modules, we at Heritage Audio think this is the professional way of handling this reliably, eliminating issues often associated with sharing power between different modules of different brands and natures.

Each slot features test leds for checking correct power operation (red for +16v, green for -16v), located aside of the slot connector.

Thanks to the use of OST, the power capability of the MCM-8 is 400mA per rail per slot maximum, with an overall of 1.4A (1.6A non continuous) per rail, whichever is reached first.

Phantom power available is 140mA total.

The RAF Blue Gray enclosure is made out of heavy gauge steel with an aluminum front panel in the United Kingdom.

There are Pan and Fader controls per slot on dual concentric potentiometers. Pan pots are center detent for precise center positioning. Features include an ON switch to assign each channel to the Mix Bus.

The Mix Bus follows a passive, voltage summing topology, similar to that found in the 80 Series consoles of the 70s. The gain loss is restored by the same Class A, 2n3055 driven, transformer based output stage used in the 1073 by which Heritage Audio is known for.

An additional Stereo Input is provided on the back of the unit, allowing several MCM-8 units to be daisy chained, or signals not needing further 500 series processing to be mixed together.

The central section has analog VU meters and a Stereo Master fader.

Connections are made by means of both gold plated XLRs and DSUB25 Input and Outputs, with Standard Tascam protocol.



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