{"id":2884,"date":"2020-07-09T09:09:30","date_gmt":"2020-07-09T14:09:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thestudiolounge.com\/?p=2884"},"modified":"2020-08-15T10:50:46","modified_gmt":"2020-08-15T15:50:46","slug":"heritage-audio-announces-ha-81a-hybrid-channel-strip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thestudiolounge.com\/index.php\/2020\/07\/09\/heritage-audio-announces-ha-81a-hybrid-channel-strip\/","title":{"rendered":"Heritage Audio Announces HA-81A Hybrid Channel Strip"},"content":{"rendered":"

European pro audio manufacturer Heritage Audio is proud to announce the availability of the HA-81A \u2014 a British-spec hybrid channel strip representing the latest addition to its ELITE SERIES range of zero-compromise, high quality yet affordable alternatives to entry-level brands as an all-new mix of two classic consoles, combining an all-discrete, Class-A 73-style mic preamp with an acclaimed 81-style equalizer, arguably the most in-demand products for any recording engineer endeavouring to create an instantly classic sound \u2014 as of July 9\u2026<\/p>\n

Creatively combining hybrid design with Heritage (Audio) quality as an ALL-CLASS A CONSOLE MIC AMP\/EQUALIZER \u2014 DESIGNED & MANUFACTURED IN THE E.U., as also boldly blazoned across the front panel of its 1U rack-mountable classy chassis, the HA-81A utilizes only rotary switches and precision, concentric potentiometers. Products in Heritage Audio\u2019s acclaimed ELITE SERIES range are all built with the most cutting-edge design and manufacturing methods, without ever compromising audio quality or cutting corners \u2014 all at the European pro audio manufacturer\u2019s Spanish headquarters, as is the case with the HA-81A.<\/p>\n

Digging deeper, the HA-81A\u2019s preamp section is an 80 dB, all-discrete Class-A design with Carnhill and St. Ives input and output transformers \u2014 the exact ones, in fact, found in Heritage Audio\u2019s other ELITE SERIES products. Put simply: it is Heritage Audio\u2019s top-notch take on an acclaimed 73-style preamplifier, including input gain (switches in 5 dB steps from 0 to 80), OUTPUT trim (attenuates from 0 to -00 \u2014 infinity), -20 dB PAD (ahead of the input transformer), and +48v phantom power.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, moving on to the HA-81A\u2019s equalizer section, it is an exceptionally musical four-band, inductor-based affair whose high- and low-pass filters (each with five frequency positions) are far from wanting. Whereas the typical 73-style three-band equalizers exceed at musicality but may fall short of the mark from a features perspective, the HA-81A equally excels at both by offering extreme (five frequency-position) control over shelf or bell response curves on the high and lows, and dual Q on both mid bands with dedicated high and low mid ones (each with 10 frequency positions) \u2014 a choice of 40 frequency selections overall.<\/p>\n

On the face of it, then, as a mic preamp that meets the discerning demands of classic sound-seeking recording engineers, the HA-81A lives up to Heritage Audio\u2019s manufacturing mantra: The sound of yesterday \u2014 built for tomorrow.<\/p>\n

The HA-81A is shipping and available now via RAD Distribution in the US (http:\/\/www.raddist.com\/heritage-audio.php<\/a>) \u2014 with a MAP (Minimum Advertised Price) of $1,099.00 USD \u2014 and elsewhere via Heritage Audio\u2019s growing global network of dealers (https:\/\/heritageaudio.net\/where-to-buy-international\/).<\/p>\n

For more in-depth information, please visit the dedicated HA-81A webpage here: https:\/\/heritageaudio.net\/catalogue\/ha-81a\/<\/p>\n

Watch Heritage Audio founder Peter Rodriguez introducing the HA-81A here: https:\/\/youtu.be\/CmL-nIIMNSE<\/p>\n

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European pro audio manufacturer Heritage Audio is proud to announce the availability of the HA-81A \u2014 a British-spec hybrid channel strip representing the latest addition to its ELITE SERIES range of zero-compromise, high quality yet affordable alternatives to entry-level brands as an all-new mix of two classic consoles, combining an all-discrete, Class-A 73-style mic preamp […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2886,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hardware-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thestudiolounge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Heritage-Audio-HA-81A.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thestudiolounge.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thestudiolounge.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thestudiolounge.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thestudiolounge.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thestudiolounge.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thestudiolounge.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2884\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thestudiolounge.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thestudiolounge.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thestudiolounge.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thestudiolounge.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}