RFT Console - RFZ MP-4084 - Mixer - Mischpult

The RFZ MP-4084 is an extremely rare vintage console hand built in East Germany. This unit was originally built for the GDR (East Germany) broadcasting and recording studios in the mid-1980s. RFZ / RFT is the east German Siemens/Telefunken! Their value will increase when people will have figured this out. The RFZ MP-4084 boasts a brilliant circuit design offering extensive functionality and superb sonics. Absolute top class! These microphone preamps can compete with API and clearly beat Neumann microphone preamps!
Very much gain! Ideal for ribbon microphones.

This is one of the few remaining working consoles in the world. These were astronomically expensive to build with brilliant circuit design and attention to detail and above all else stunning sound quality. 

It can be pushed to have an upfront mid range bite and great clarity thanks to it's circuit design and component choices. 
It also features transformers for ins and outs which further add character to its sound. Personally I find it to be exceptional on everything with a much more interesting and pleasing tone than just recording straight into an audio interface. 
I often run mix stems out through this and back in for some colour and to use the lovely built-in 3 band, 7 band and 9 band graphic EQs that are simply stunning, or or the parametric sums eq.

8 in 4 out !

all in all the mixing console is in good technical and optical condition according to its age. It has been standing for a while now and for sure some channels will be scratchy and would have to be recapped, cleaned. in general it is functional and no disasters are to be expected. additionally I have some high quality multicores with the matching break out and break in plugs. these are included in the price !

local pickup in berlin tempelhof !

Some more information:

"The KV80 line/microphone-preamps have been developed by the R F Z(Central Bureau of Radio and Television, Berlin) in east germany. This was a broadcast (research) authority of the GDR. The developments were concentrated and one of the highest priority in the GDR.

More than enough money, time and highly skilled engineers and technician were available. Patent law was not an issue. The RFZ developed most things by themselves, but also were interested in western-german developements. Adopted them and sometimes even improved them by an even more clever and to the point approach. Due to the production of LP's (AMIGA= Pop etc., ETERNA=Classical) which was a renommé object of the GDR, the highest claim was to reproduce music as truthful and natural sounding as possible. It was not enough to do all the measurements while developing for example a preamp. They even had a listening group which consisted of people, with skilled ears, trained by constant visits of classical concerts.

The RFZ is famous for their amazing quality mixing desks of the 700-series (V781, V741, V740). Those preamps are known as absolutely fantastic sounding but they are very rare. Not much of them were made as they have been produced for professional purposes only and were very expensive (the price for a pair of two KV80 preamps was higher than the average monthly income of a GDR citizen from the workin-class at that time). With the 800-series (KV800, KV80, FB80 etc.) the RFZ fullfilled the need for more compact format consoles while maintaining the audiophile qualities or even exceed them.