ACME Audio MTEQ-1 Motown EQ

The Acme Audio MTEQ-1 Motown EQ continues Acme’s effort to faithfully recreate classic Motown audio products for today’s recording studios. An absolute legend among audio engineers and producers, only 48 of the original Motown EQs were ever produced – and it’s considered one of Chief Engineer Mike McLean’s pinnacle achievements at Detroit’s Motown Studios. With its transformer balance audio path and gain makeup amplifier section, this 7-band graphic equalizer was a vast improvement to the products that were commercially available in the Motown era. Acme Audio had the honor of spending several weeks with the late Mike McLean reverse engineering an original Motown EQ and had his ongoing guidance to faithfully recreate and reintroduce this classic piece of equipment to the recording world. No components were compromised in this reproduction… every inductor, capacitor, and transformer was either sourced from original manufacturers or painstakingly recreated to match the performance and sonic quality of the original Motown EQ. In essence, this is the closest you will ever come to owning this essential piece of recording history.

FEATURES:

• 7-band rotary switch graphic equalizer
• Frequency: 50 Hz, 130 Hz, 320 Hz, 800 Hz, 2000 Hz, 5000 Hz, 12500 Hz
• ±8 dB of equalization
• Transformer balance circuit with AMI A24 input transformer and Mesanovic custom output transformer
• Custom Mesanovic Moly Permalloy Powder core (MPP) inductors
• Opamp Labs 425 output amplifier, true to the original
• 29 dB max level
• Frequency response: 10 Hz to 30 kHz ±1 dB
• External power supply for lower noise floor
• All aluminum custom 2U 19″ rack-mount chassis