Description
From the father of the recording console comes the 5060 Centerpiece: the Class-A analog heart of your 21st-century studio.
Sized for your desktop, the 5060 delivers the tonality and center section features of Rupert’s flagship 5088 console at your fingertips, cementing outboard together with serious custom transformers, flexible monitoring, DAW transport controls, and the raw power of a Rupert Neve-designed 24×2 mix-buss.
Define Your Workflow
With a modular, hybrid analogue/digital mix system built around the 5060, you can outfit your studio with exactly what you need – and nothing that you don’t (see configurations guide here). Utilizing modern DAW control technologies, the 5060 seamlessly integrates stem outputs from the DAW with the rest of your control room, sums the final mix, and provides 2-track outputs, source selection, and speaker feed outputs from the monitor section.
Used in conjunction with 5059 mixers and Portico modules, the 5060 forms the core of a scalable analogue system. In this arrangement, the 5059s provide individual channel control, aux routing, and expandable channel counts, the Portico modules provide preamplification, EQ and dynamics, and the 5060 unites it all. The 5060 brings your dreams of a seamless hybrid workflow to reality.
Define Your Tone
With custom transformers, a class-A mix buss and variable Silk, the 5060 can provide a wide range of tonal flavors. Drive the mix buss hard and crank the Texture knob for a rich, saturated, vintage vibe – or disengage Silk entirely for clear, wide-open sonic beauty.
Silk reduces the negative feedback on the output transformer, adding harmonic content as the texture is increased. Silk red mode accentuates the saturation in the high-mids and highs, while silk blue mode features more saturation in the lows and low mids.
With Silk engaged, the distortion characteristic and harmonic content of the unit are very reminiscent of many of Rupert’s class-A vintage designs. These controls add an unparalleled range of tonal options to the 5060 and should be explored creatively with a variety of different sources for best effect.
Additionally, by using 5059 Satellite Mixers to feed the 5060, you can further control the tone by using different Silk & Texture settings on the dual stereo outputs,and by creating parallel processing on the stems using the insert sends into processors, and then into stereo inputs 9-24.
The New Analogue Standard
While digital technologies come and go, the modular, class-A analog designs Rupert created decades ago have been proven to stand the test of time. Instead of merely cloning these “classics”, Rupert’s team of engineers have crafted new designs – built on the same key principles – that take sonic performance, flexibility and ergonomics to new heights.
These designs embody the high voltage, class-A, discrete and transformer coupled architectures found in the 5088 console, which represent a culmination of Rupert’s vast analogue circuitry knowledge.
With the 5060 Centerpiece, the primary aim is to deliver the extraordinary quality of the 5088 in a compact, modular framework. With an abundance of interconnectivity, exceptional fidelity, and the tonal versatility of Silk, the 5060 is the ideal core of the sound-conscious modern studio.
REVIEWS
“The 5060 is an amazing piece of gear to behold…It’s kind of like sitting down into a new Mercedes, it feels like it’s built like a bank vault and every piece has been considered and carefully selected. This is not something you’ll feel like replacing anytime soon.”
“I’ve done a ton of mixing on the Stratosphere Studios (R.I.P.) Neve 8068, and pushing that mix buss hard was always the key to getting a great mix, especially if the material had a healthy amount of distortion. The 5060 worked exactly the same way, with the Silk “Red” engaged, and the Texture set to about halfway, the more I hit the mix buss, the better it sounded. I could basically beat the mix I had going within an hour of playing with this new mixer, which is definitely amazing on a heavy complex mix like this. If I had started with this mixer from the beginning, I probably could have even pushed it further into sonic nirvana (nerdvana?).”
Eli Janney / SonicScoop
“This thing is noiseless and perfect, and sound-wise it's an absolute delight to get everything through it and engage some amount of silk red on the whole mix. It is a summing mixer, and for us its real purpose is defining our workflow. Everything revolves around it, and it’s a safe feeling. Reliable…It's scary to think about something this well engineered and planned. I did this review as a happy customer, so there you go.”
“I knew what the big console sound was and how it affected tracking and eventually mixing. I was able to get close doing it all in the box but never had that sonic footprint that I used to get back in the day multi-tracking with a big console and laying it all down to 2-inch tape. That is until now…The 5060 is one of the best investments I have ever made in my studios. I couldn’t be happier unless of course I had a complete 24 channel 5088, and who knows, that may happen some day. But for now at least, I have that sound and that is everything in my opinion.”
Customer Reviews via gearspace.com
SPECIFICATIONS
- Connections
- Mix Inputs 1-24: 2 x DB-25
- Mix Channel Inserts Send/Return1-8: 1 x DB-25
- Mix Send to External Monitor:
- Monitor Outputs (Mon 3 latching): 6 x XLR
- Talkback Output: 1 x TRS
- Talkback Remote: 1 x TS
- Stereo Mix Insert/Return L-R: 4 x TRS
- Stereo Mix Output:2 x XLR
- Midi In / Out: 2 x Midi
- Computer Connection: USB
- Power:3-Pin IEC
- Dimensions - 18.5” wide x 12.5” deep x 5.75” high in the back (3.5” in the front)
- Stereo Outputs
- (unless otherwise specified, frequency is 1 kHz)
- Channels 1-8 Max input level
- Fader at 0: 25.4 dBu
- Fader at +10: 15.2 dBu
- Channels 9-24 Max input level
- trim at 0: 25.4 dBu
- Max Output level - Any combination of inputs: 25.4 dBu
- THD+N
- Channels 1-8, fader at unity, THD+N BW <10 Hz – 80k Hz
- +20 dBu, 20 Hz: 0.023%
- +20 dBu, 2 kHz: 0.0022%
- +20 dBu, 20 kHz: 0.016%
- Channels 9-24, trim at unity, THD+N BW <10 Hz – 80k Hz>
- +20 dBu, 20 Hz: 0.023%
- +20 dBu, 2 kHz: 0.0032%
- +20 dBu, 20 kHz: 0.017%
- Noise
- BW 22 Hz – 22 kHz
- Channels 1-24: Better than -90 dBV
- Channels 9-24: Better than -100 dBV
- X-talk : + 10 dbu, 10 kH, L/R: -49 dB
- Channel to channel - CMRR at 1K input to channel 1, 0 dBu fader at unity: -70 dBu
- Frequency Response
- 10 Hz to 120 kHz: +/- 0.25 dB
- 185 kHz: -3 dB
- IMD: +4 dBu, CCIF/DFD: 0.0008%
Silk (Texture control at maximum)
- Noise
- +20 dBu in, 20 Hz: Better than 5%
- +20 dBu in, 200 Hz: Better than 0.2%
- Frequency Response
- 0 dBu in, 20 kHz – 2.3 dBu
- Distortion
- +20 dBu in, 20 Hz –Better than 5%
- +20 dBu in, 200 Hz – Better than 0.15%
- Frequency Response
- 0 dBu in, 30 Hz: -1 dBu
- Peak LED’s: - Trigger Threshold: +22 dBu
- Monitor Outputs
- Max Output level 1 kHz: +25 dBu
- THD+N
- +20 dBu, 20 Hz: 0.023%
- +20 dBu, 2 kHz: 0.0032%
- +20 dBu, 20 kHz: 0.017%
- Noise
- 1-24: Better than -90 dBV
- 9-24: Better than -100 dBV
- Headphone Out - Max output level: Better than +20 dBu, unloaded
- THD+N
- 2 kHz into 68 ohms, 16 dBu output: Better than 0.02%
- Noise (22 Hz – 22 kHz): Better than -85 dBV
- Minimum Load: 16 ohms recommended (8 absolute min)