Rupert Neve Designs Portico 511

With a big, bold preamp and the flexibility of variable Silk/Texture, Rupert Neve designed the 511 to combine classic sonics with 500-series value. Incorporating the 517's powerful preamp, the 5012's universally useful sweepable high pass filter, and the transformer-saturating power of a variable silk circuit derived from our flagship Portico II Channel, the 511 is a Rupert Neve-designed micpre for the masses.

Key Features:

• Mic gain: 12-way precision rotary switch controls gain from 0 to 66 dB in 6 dB steps
• Trim: continuously variable +/-6 dB level control
• +48V phantom power switch
• Polarity switch: inverts the polarity of the signal path & illuminates when engaged
• High pass filter: continuously variable from 20-250Hz & engaged by the HPF switch, which illuminates when engaged
• Silk/texture button engages the red Silk circuit, which reduces the negative feedback on the output transformer, adding harmonic content as the texture is increased
• Level meter: Eight-segment LED bar-graph meter displays output level (pre-Silk)