I am selling a brand new Rupert Neve Designs 5057 Orbit 16 x 2 Summing Mixer officially sourced from the factory. Feel free to contact me for inquiries and to place an order. Below are additional terms in my store and a description of the device.

  • All products are officially sourced from the vendor or distributor.
  • I provide a minimum 3-year warranty on all products, or longer depending on the type of product.
  • Most products are available for testing on demand in the showroom in Warsaw.
  • Every customer in Europe is entitled to a 30-day return policy. This option doesn't cover customers abroad EU.

The Rupert Neve Designs 5057 Orbit brings all the tone, power, and depth of a Rupert Neve console into a single rack space. Firmly rooted in six decades of console design experience, the 5057 Orbit gives your mixes the legendary tonality, power, and wide-open soundstage that only Rupert Neve's class-A analog summing can provide. This elegant 1U, 16x2 summing mixer takes sterile in-the-box mixes and launches them to new heights of tone, depth, and clarity — without sacrificing the recall and repeatability of your DAW-based workflow. Coupled with Rupert's famous custom audio transformers and the legendary Silk Red & Blue circuitry, it adds the rich, three-dimensional character that only genuine analog summing can deliver.

Key elements of its design:

  • Class-A Analog Summing Bus A 16-channel ±21V Class-A mix bus provides massive headroom and the wide-open soundstage of a full Rupert Neve console. The Orbit's purist signal path has vanishingly low crosstalk, and channels matched to within +/-0.1dB, giving your mixes the widest, most accurate stereo image and the greatest sense of depth.
  • Silk Red & Blue with Texture Control The Silk Red mode accentuates transformer saturation in the high and high-mid frequencies to amplify the vibrant midrange harmonics associated with Rupert's vintage equipment, while Silk Blue accentuates saturation of the lows and low-mids to add thickness and weight to any source. The 31-detent Texture knob lets you precisely dial in the amount of harmonic saturation — from clean and uncolored to rich, saturated vintage vibe.
  • Custom Shelford-Derived Output Transformers The Orbit utilizes a highly custom output transformer configuration originally developed for the acclaimed Shelford Channel, which provides both a Main Output and a -6dB Output. The secondary -6dB output reduces the likelihood of clipping the next device in the chain when driving the unit very hard, and thus may allow for greater potential harmonic saturation.
  • Mono Summing & Precise Centering Mono switches enable you to precisely center any mono mix elements like vocals, kick, snare and bass. Four push-button switches sum the first eight input channels in pairs at unity gain, with no pan law applied.
  • Expandable Modular System Multiple units can be combined through the Bus Link for a higher channel count. RND recommend daisy-chaining up to four 5057s, for a total of 64 channels, and the Orbit also integrates with the 5059 Satellite and 5060 Centrepiece to build a world-class modular console system.

The 5057 Orbit is consistently praised by top engineers for its width, depth, and warmth. One engineer described diving into in-the-box mixing for years and never being able to get a mix to sound wide — then plugging in the Orbit and within about three minutes thinking "that's it," noting it really gives everybody the chance to have a console. Engineer Brad Divins, who has worked with Disturbed and Enrique Iglesias, summed it up as warmth, width, clarity and depth equaling pure analog goodness.

Technical specifications:

  • Configuration: 16 x 2 Analog Summing Mixer
  • Mix Bus: 16-Channel ±21V Class-A
  • Input Impedance: 16k Ohm
  • Frequency Response: 10 Hz to 50 kHz (+/- 0.1 dB); -3 dB at 150 kHz
  • Noise: -90 dBu typical (22 Hz – 22 kHz)
  • Maximum Input Level: +26 dBu @ 1 kHz
  • Maximum Output Level: +26 dBu @ 1 kHz
  • THD+N: 0.003% @ 0 dBu / 0.0006% @ +20 dBu (1 kHz)
  • Crosstalk: -103 dBu @ 1 kHz / -93 dBu @ 10 kHz
  • Channel Matching: better than +/- 0.1 dB
  • Inputs: 2x DB25 (AES59/TASCAM) balanced line inputs
  • Outputs: Transformer-coupled XLR Main Output + -6dB Output
  • Silk Circuit: OFF / RED / BLUE with 31-detent Texture control
  • Mono: 4 push-button switches (sums first 8 channels in pairs)
  • Trim: 12-position stepped attenuator (+/- 0.1 dB tolerance)
  • Bus Link: TRS In/Out for chaining up to four units (64 channels)
  • Power: 100–240 VAC, 35 W max, IEC inlet
  • Dimensions: 19" W (48.3 cm) x 9" D (22.9 cm) x 1.75" H (4.4 cm), 1U
  • Weight: ~4.5 kg (10 lbs)

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