Rupert Neve Designs Newton Channel/Portico 5045 Live Sound Vocal Chain

The Rupert Neve Designs Newton Channel/Portico 5045 gives you to the dream live sound vocal chain. The Newton Channel is a fully Class A microphone preamp, 3-band discrete EQ, fast and flexible VCA compressor, and custom Rupert Neve Designs transformer-coupled outputs with revolutionary harmonic color stage variable Silk Red and Blue. The Portico 5045 reduces unwanted signals in excess of 20 dB and offers the legendary audio warmth you'd expect from a Rupert Neve Designs device.

NEWTON CHANNEL PREAMP, EQ, AND COMPRESSOR

The Rupert Neve Designs Newton Channel is a powerful channel strip rooted in recording technology's most iconic design legacy. Built to deliver classic sound with an intuitive workflow, the Newton Channel gives you musical tone-shaping, proven reliability, and the instantly recognizable character of a Rupert Neve Designs product. Equally at home in project studios, large facilities, or live touring rigs, the Newton Channel makes the RND experience more accessible than ever before. The channel strip’s flexible toolset includes a fully Class A mic preamp, discrete three-band EQ, fast and flexible VCA compressor, and custom transformer-coupled outputs with RND’s beloved variable Silk Blue and Red harmonic color stage. The Newton Channel pays homage to Rupert Neve’s birthplace, Newton Abbot, England. Tracing the arc of his work from vintage to modern, the Newton channel delivers the world-class sound and performance of Rupert Neve Designs.

• Classic Rupert Neve mic pre tone for the punchy, larger-than-life sound heard on countless hit records
• Custom transformers and Class A Line amplifiers for vintage character, improved headroom, and precision of Rupert Neve Designs’ updated transformer-coupled line stages
• Comprehensive 3-band EQ provides flexible, intuitive EQ section with fully sweepable mid-band, specially designed for the Newton Channel
• Fast and smooth VCA compressor gently tames transients or applies heavy yet smooth compression
• Pre/post EQ switch for compressor to provide even greater flexibility
• Silk Red and Blue saturation dial in subtle richness or over-the-top vintage-style harmonic saturation using a simple set of controls
• 31-position detented controls allow you to accurately recall and match your settings with speed and precision
• Link the gain reduction of two Newton compressors for powerful stereo bus processing with the Stereo Link switch
• Internal universal power supply and IEC connection for world-wide AC power from 90 - 240V located in the 1U rack-mountable chassis

PORTICO 5045 PRIMARY SOURCE ENHANCER

The Rupert Neve Designs Portico 5045 Primary Source Enhancer is a two-channel module that is perfect for reducing feedback, and effectively increasing the level a microphone can be raised before any feedback occurs in a live sound environment by nearly 20dB. With controls that are very simply laid out and generally require minimal adjustment, the RND 5045 is an invaluable tool for churches, stadiums, performance halls, or any venue where the maximum level output of feedback is problematic. Built around Rupert Neve Designs’ custom module input and main output transformers, the all-analog circuitry offers superb control and durable sonic performance without compromising any integrity of the source material. The Portico 5045 shares some traits with conventional “noise gates”, but operates on a different principle. One common aspect is that both reduce the gain during the absence of signal – or more specifically, both begin to attenuate when the level of a signal falls below a certain user-defined threshold. The Rupert Neve Designs 5045 senses when someone is speaking or singing into the mic and allows the signal to pass through, and senses when the person has stopped talking or singing and reduces the gain appropriately, which helps reduce the system’s tendency to feed back. Most importantly, the RND 5045 does not require filtering and digital processing to achieve significant benefits.

• Crosstalk measured channel to channel better than -80 dB @16 kHz
• Frequency responses main output: -3 dB @20 Hz; -3 dB @150 kHz
• RMS mode
• Time Constant controls: A 50mS; B 100mS; C 200mS; D 750mS; E 1.5S; F 3S
• Measured at main output, unweighted, 22 Hz - 22k Hz, 50 ohm terminated input
• Threshold continuously variable from -20 dBu to 10 dBu