AEA Microphones

AEA RPQ 2-Channel Ribbon Microphone Preamplifier Details
The AEA RPQ with Curve Shaping and 48-volt phantom power puts all the controls for any ribbon microphone (passive AND active) at your fingertips: 80 dB of clean quiet JFET gain, P48 phantom power for active studio ribbons such as AEAs A440, and LF trim and HF boost contols that are tuneable and defeatable so that you can tame proximity problems and/or add a little more to the top.

The RPQ has the speed, quietness, and headroom needed for high resolution ribbon recordings, and it sounds good with condenser and moving coil mics. AEAs DC-coupled JFET topology delivers all the dynamics, subwoofer bass and fast transients that your ribbon and other mics are capable of. Its discrete front end and integrated circuit architecture meld the quietness of solid state with an openness reminiscent of tubes.

Live and location recording is another area where the RPQ shines. Its Low-Energy-Storage (LES) circuitry recovers instantly from overloads, a big advantage with unpredicatable dynamics, and its exceptional No Load input impedance of over 10,000 makes it an ideal active mic splitter. Mic splits usually load down, changing a mics sound, but not the RPQ.

AEA RPQ 2-Channel Ribbon Microphone Preamplifier Features
Grayhill series 71 stepped gain switch
Rotary potentiometers detented at 12:00 o'clock position
Metallic blue and steel gray powder-coat finish
Silkscreened engraved legends and single line schematic
Detachable rack-ears included
AEA RPQ 2-Channel Ribbon Microphone Preamplifier Specifications
80 dB of gain at 1kHz, balanced-in to balanced-out
Noise figure, rms A-weighted: < 2 dB
EIN < -128 dBu A-weighted, 150 W resistive source
Balanced Microphone Input Impedance > 10 kO
HPF features 6dB per octave slope
Green, red, and yellow LEDs indicate line level
XLR output max level into 600O load: +28 dBu, balanced; +22 dBu, unbalanced
TRS output max level into 100 kO load: +22 dBu, unbalanced