Rupert Neve Designs has released the 5060 Centerpiece 24x2 Desktop Mixer, bringing the centre section features of the company’s flagship 5088 console to the desktop. The class-A analogue design aims to ‘cement outboard equipment together with serious custom transformers, flexible monitoring, DAW transport controls and the raw power of a Rupert Neve-designed 24x2 mix-bus’.

The 5060 Centerpiece takes the 5088 into a compact, modular format with extensive interconnectivity. In a modular, hybrid analogue/digital mix system built around the Centerpiece, gear can be integrated with this mix-bus. Using modern DAW control technologies, the 5060 integrates stem outputs from the DAW with the rest of the control room, sums the final mix, and provides two-track outputs, source selection, and multiple speaker feeds from the monitor section.

Custom transformers, a class-A mix bus and variable Silk control, the 5060 can provide a wide range of tonal options. The mix bus can be driven hard and Silk/Texture used in either of two different transformer saturation modes, or Silk can be disengaged. Used in conjunction with 5059 mixers and Portico modules, the 5060 forms the centre of a completely scalable analogue system. In this arrangement, the 5059s provide individual channel control, aux routing, and expandable channel counts, the Portico modules provide preamplification, EQ and dynamics, around the 5060.

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