Helios Channel Strips Rare Vintage Stereo Pair Preamp Equalizer Compressor Pre

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Helios Channel Strips Vintage
For sale is a very rare vintage stereo pair of Helios Channel Strips with Microphone Preamp, Equalizer and Compressor. Tested and fully functional, with some servicing as needed by our techs including a recap. This is the final and rarest version of the Helios console input channel designed by Dick Swettenham. It's estimated that fewer than 20 of these channels are still in existence. These originally came from a console Helios was building for Capital Radio in London and were racked by former Neve engineer Martin Dowden at Creative Electronic Services. They implement several elements different from earlier designs, including 18V power rails for additional headroom, Sowter transformers, different EQ points (3-band EQ with hi/low pass filters) and a full compressor with dbx VCA chips similar to SSL compressors of that period. This might be your only chance to come across a pair of these modules. Don't miss out on these incredibly rare Helios, these sound absolutely amazing. Helios preamps / eqs are legendary, as equally sought after as vintage Neve or API for their awesome sound and tone.

Features include:  All knobs are continuous and not stepped.

Preamp: Microphone input Gain: 30db up to 75db in 5db steps. -20dB pad switch Phase switch Passive output attenuator Phantom power switch  
Compressor:
Gain Reduction meter In/out switch Pre/post EQ switch
Attack 1ms - 200ms
Decay / Release .1s - 2s
Ratio 1.5 - 16

Equalizer: Low-pass: out, 20Hz - 170Hz
Hi-pass: 5.5kHz - 15kHz, out
Hi-band: +/- 12dB, 8kHz - 17kHz Mid-band: +/- 14dB, 0.7kHz - 7kHz Low-band: +/- 12dB, 40Hz - 700Hz In/out switch

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