Heritage Audio HA 81 A EQ Elite

HA-81A EQ Elite

The best of both worlds.

Introducing Heritage Audio’s HA-81A EQ: a new mix of 2 classic console circuits.
The HA-81A EQ Elite is a channel strip that combines an all discrete, Class A 73-style mic preamp with an extremely versatile and musical console style equalizer — arguably the trick for obtaining instant classic sound for all recording engineers.

The mic preamp that meets the demands.

The HA-81A’s preamp section is an 80 dB, all discrete Class A design with Carnhill St Ives input and output transformers, exactly the same ones found in the other Elite Series modules.
The preamp features gain, output trim, -20 dB pad, polarity reverse, and +48 V phantom power.

The best console´s style equalizer ever made.

The HA-81’s equalizer section is an exceptionally musical 4 band, inductor-based equalizer with high and low pass filters. Where 3 band equalizers such as the typical 73-style exceed at musicality but may be short of features, the HA-81A EQ excels at both equally. Extreme control over Shelf or Bell response curves on the high and lows, dual Q on both mid bands, with dedicated high and low mid bands, and a range of 40 frequency selections to choose from.

Hybrid design. Heritage quality.

The Heritage HA-81A EQ utilizes only rotary switches and precision, concentric potentiometers. And like all of the products in our Elite range, the HA-81A EQ is built with the most cutting edge methods in manufacturing and design, without ever compromising audio quality or cutting corners — all at the Heritage Audio headquarters in Madrid-Spain.