EQUIPMENT
The Exchange’s equipment has been carefully selected over many years of listening tests. It is also home to some very exclusive pieces of equipment which adds to the exchanges uniquely posh sound. The mains is highly conditioned and closely monitored. All equipment is connected via pure silver cables and specialised connectors. All equipment is maintained regularly and rigorously to ensure no artefacts of the original program are lost, only enhanced.
NEUMANN VMS70 disc mastering lathe
RECORDERS and REProducers
Prism and Metric Halo Converters.
Sadie Digital Audio Workstation.
Studer C37 valve 1/4’’ tape machine.
Fully Customised Neumann VMS70 disc mastering lathe.
Fully Customised Scully disc mastering lathe with Westrex 3D head and all valve RA-1574 cutting amplifiers.
EQUALIZERS
Pulse Techniques (Pultec) EQP-1A full range program equalizers.
Pulse Techniques (Pultec) MEQ-5 mid range program equalizers.
Sontec 432C mastering equalizer.
EMI RS56s “Curve bender”. This is one of the rarest and most sort after EQ’s on the planet. It is not like the later EMI TG series or chandler transistor curve bender copy’s in regards to its circuitry and build quality. Its on another level.
EMI console built in equalizers. Again, top notch passive equalisation for utmost smoothness and clarity.
Sontec MES-432C equalizer
EMI RS56s universal tone control “Curve bender”.
Pultec EQP-1A program equalizers
EMI transfer console
MONITORING
Tannoy dual concentric monitor reds in Lockwood ‘Major’ cabinets.
McIntosh MC60 ultralinear power amplifiers.
EMI TRANSFER CONSOLE
The exchange houses the worlds only known of, pre TG series, EMI TRANSFER CONSOLE. Once again, this console is wildly different to EMI’s later transistorised equipment. This console came from Pathe Marconi in Paris which was bought out by Island Records for their in-house mastering facility, “The Sound Clinic”. After the Sound Clinic shut and the exchange was formed, the console naturally went there.
