Rupert Neve Designs 517 500 Series Microphone Preamp & Compressor

The first 500 series module designed by Rupert Neve, the 517 microphone preamplifier/compressor, brings fantastic sound quality and tone shaping capability to your 500 series rack. True to the lofty standards of Rupert Neve Designs, the 517 boasts transformer-coupled circuitry for untainted sound and an incredibly versatile feature set. The 517's preamp section, which is based closely on the full-sized 5017 design, sports 66dB of gain and an interdependent direct input with 30dB of gain. The mic preamp includes phantom power and phase reverse, and the instrument input includes a ground-lift switch and instrument thru function.

FEATURES

• 500 series format for compatibility with API and other 500 series racks
• Microphone preamplifier with 0-66dB of gain with switchable 48V phantom power and phase reverse
• Direct instrument input with 0-30dB of gain (balanced or unbalanced operation)
• Blend control allows you to blend the mic pre and the DI signal together
• Vari-phase continuously adjusts the phase of the direct signal only
• Silk function for enhanced sound
• Opto compressor section with contiguously variable threshold control (2:1 ratio, attack, and release are fixed)
• LEDs for signal presence, clipping, and compression indicators
• Frequency Response: Main Output, no load, -0.2dB at 10Hz -3dB at 160kHz
• Noise: Measured at Main Output, unweighted, 22Hz-22kHz, Terminated 150 Ohms. With gain at unity better than -100dBu With gain at 66dB better than -62 dBu Equivalent Input Noise better than -128dBu Noise Factor 1.5dB
• Maximum Output Level: Maximum output from 20Hz-40kHz is +23 dBu
• Total Harmonic Distortion + Noise: at 1kHz, +20 dBu output: Main Output: Better than 0.001% at 20Hz, +20 dBu output: Main Output: Better than 0.002% Silk Engaged: Better than 0.2% Second harmonic
• Crosstalk: Measured channel to channel: Better than -90dB at 15kHz
• Phantom Power: +48 Volts DC +/-1%

SPECIFICATIONS

• Preamp Type: Solid State
• Number of Channels: 1
• Frequency Response: 20Hz-40kHz
• Phantom Power: Yes
• Compressor: Yes