The AEA RPQ with Curve Shaping and P48 power puts all the controls for ribbon mics at your fingertips:
80 dB of clean quiet JFET gain, P48 phantom power for active studio ribbons such as AEA’s A440,
and LF trim and HF boost contols that are tuneable and defeatable so that you can tame proximity
problems and/or add a little more to the top.
The RPQ has the speed, quietness, and headroom needed for high resolution ribbon recordings,
and it sounds good with condenser and moving coil mics. AEA’s DC-coupled JFET topology
delivers all the dynamics, subwoofer bass and fast transients that your ribbon and other mics are
capable of. Its discrete front end and integrated circuit architecture meld the quietness of solid
state with an openness reminiscent of tubes.
Live and location recording is another area where the RPQ shines. Its Low-Energy-Storage (LES™)
circuitry recovers instantly from overloads, a big advantage with unpredicatable dynamics, and its
exceptional No Load™ input impedance of over 10,000 Ω makes it an ideal active mic splitter. Mic
splits usually load down, changing a mic’s sound, but not the RPQ.
RPQ Electronics Specifications
80 dB of gain at 1 kHz, balanced-in to balanced-out
