Over fifty years in the making, the Rubert Neve Desiens Shelford Channel is the definitive evolution of the original technologies in Rupert’s classic console modules like the 1073, 1064, 1081 & 2254, thoughtfully advanced and refined for the 21st century studio. The Shelford Channel is built around Rupert Neve’s first new transformer-gain, class-A microphone preamplifier in over 40 years, the “best-of-the-classics” inductor EQ section from the Shelford 5052, a tone-packed Diode bridge compressor, the analog power of variable Silk saturation, a new dual-tap transformer output stage for maintaining headroom or allowing the full driving of the Channel without clipping standard converters, and twice the operating voltage of vintage designs.

Key features

• Input stage and transformer-gain mic pre
• Front-panel hi-Z direct input
• The best-of-the-classics inductor EQ
• The Super Diode-bridge Compressor
• Dual-tap transformer output
• The Silk and Texture controls