Great River Pres

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aw awesome. i wish i was there i want to pick one up with cash and that'd be easy. I dont have a credit card so this is gonna take me a while to figure it out.

how much were the mp-2s going for at that convention?

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Dot said:
There's no money exchanged on the floor at AES. None of the gear is for sale there.
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Bro, everything on the floor at AES is for sale...
 
Well what do you think of the Great River stuff Fletch...oh why bother...he hates everything.:)
 
I'm not Fletcher, but he sold me (Mercenary) my MP2 a few years back. I love that pre-amp (as do all my acoustic guitars!). I pair it with either a Neumann KM184 or a Soundelux U97. If you do acoustic type music and want a neutral/natural sound, this pre-amp is the bee's knees. I've never heard the Neve'ish model.

darrin_h2000 said:
Well what do you think of the Great River stuff Fletch...oh why bother...he hates everything.:)
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Well... considering that it's a "Mercenary Edition"... I think the chances of me not loving it are pretty slim. We ran the first prototype down the pike last spring... it sounded excellent, but it was kind of an ergonmic nightmare... so back to the drawing board...

Dan and I met again in late spring and worked on some layout ideas... in the middle we emailed drawings and ideas back and forth... what resulted was a unit that is easy to use, and as cost effective as possible [while maintaining the audio quality I demanded] equalizer.

We started with the drawings for a Neve® 1081 4 band equalizer... we ended with a whole bunch of changes from the original drawings, but the same inductors from the 1081 [which is one of the reasons that makes it pretty difficult to seriously fuck up the sound of something with this EQ].

The EQ-2NV employs digital switching of an entirely class 'A' signal path [the original 1081 employs a class 'A/B' output section]... the net result is better stability, better headroom, better 'depth' to the tone, and a bit greater flexibilty. By better flexibility I mean that there are three bandwidth options on the two mid bands as opposed to only two options on an original 1081.

The idea was to able to use the EQ-2NV either in conjunction with the MP-2NV [on the MP-2NV's insert point] or as a stand alone unit.

When used on the insert point of the MP-2NV, you are inserting the equalizer circuit between the input and output amplifiers of the MP-2NV [just the way it worked in a 1073 module... except it's a more flexible 4 band EQ]. You can also use the "line in" on the EQ-2NV with the class 'A', transformer balanced output of the MP-2NV... or you can use the class 'A' transformerless output of the EQ-2NV... the net result is different tones.

When using the EQ-2NV with the MP-2NV the 'loading' switch on the MP-2NV comes into play [this is the switch that adds a load to the transformers flattening their response]... when using the MP-2NV and EQ-2NV running a line or mic level signal into the MP-2NV, the impedance switch on the mic-pre comes into play.

The 'stand alone' output on the EQ-2NV is a fully class 'A', balanced, transformerless design that has substantially greater headroom than the older Neve® design... the object being to give the user the greatest tonal flexibility so they can tailor their audio to the musical statement.

...and yes, there will be mounting hardware to mount an EQ-1NV and an ME-1NV [single channel EQ and mic-pre] into a 1 RU configuration.
 
So the Mercenary Edition is OK?:)

I was wondering if the ME1NV was the same as a One channel Mercenary edition ME2NV?

And do you have any substantial discounts for us Homereccers that have to hide purchases from thier wives to avoid assault with a rolling pin? Maybe a scratch and dent?:(
 
So the Mercenary Edition is OK?:)

I was wondering if the ME1NV was the same as a One channel Mercenary edition ME2NV?

And do you have any substantial discounts for us Homereccers that have to hide purchases from thier wives to avoid assault with a rolling pin? Maybe a scratch and dent?:(
 
Just so everybody knows, once and for all...

The difference between the now obsolete MP-1NV, and the ME-1NV is paint.

That's it.

It is exactly one channel of an MP-2NV with a supply scaled to fit the demands of just one channel.

The blue/black change is something you can ask Fletcher about, or maybe not.
 
So, is there going to be a 1U full width plate for the ME-1NV preamp and the EQ so I can put them side by side in my rack?
 
Fletcher said:
...and yes, there will be mounting hardware to mount an EQ-1NV and an ME-1NV [single channel EQ and mic-pre] into a 1 RU configuration.
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Check out the last paragraph of the diatribe at the top of this page... single plate, no... hardware, yes
 
Yeah that's good enough. As long as they are side by side it increases the cool factor ever so much.
 
FWIW, my MP-2NV is about the most expensive preamp I own... and my favorite too... this thing makes mic's jump alive. :)
 
darrin_h2000 said:
Along the same vein... Why no RNC/RNP Merc plates?
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See top rack... for the RNP/RNC Funk Logic face-plates...
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Saw it allready, Cool Package...whoever it is behind that Merc stuff is cool.:)

What he needs to do now is Make a 1/2 rack 1 channel version of that great river eq and package it with a MP1NV. and since I had the Idea He can call it the Darrin_h2000 special.
 
Saw it allready, Cool Package...whoever it is behind that Merc stuff is cool.:)

What he needs to do now is Make a 1/2 rack 1 channel version of that great river eq amd ackage it with a MP1NV. and since I had the Idea He can call it the Darrin_h2000 special.
 
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