Rupert Neve Designs 517 DI - Mic Pre - Compressor with Variphase - 500 Series

Based on the Portico 5017 Mobile Pre, the 517 provides world class, transformer-coupled preamp, compressor and DI circuitry, with Vari-phase, Silk and DI/mic blending capabilities in a 500 series model. As the first 500 series module designed by Mr. Rupert Neve, the 517 incorporates outstanding sonic quality with an indispensable feature set.

Features:

• Silk - Much could be written about this feature, suffice to say, that it gives a subtle option to enhance sound quality in the direction of vintage modules. The silk button reduces negative feedback and adjusts the frequency spectrum to provide a very sweet and musical performance. We suggest you try it and make your own judgment.


• Mic Gain - Mic gain is from 0dB to 66dB. Overall gain to restore the apparent program level


• DI Gain - DI Gain is from 0dB to 30dB


• DI input - Balanced or unbalanced Hi-Z input for instruments


• Phantom power - Provides 48v phantom power to microphones. Controlled by the 48V switch.


• Polarity reverse - Reverses the polarity of the mic input


• Threshold - When signals exceed the threshold level, the gain is reduced at a controlled 2:1 ratio, with fixed attack and release time constants.


• Indicators - Indicators on the 517 denote signal presence and clipping on both DI and mic signals, as well as compressor activation.