Heritage Audio: Vintage-Inspired Preamps and More

Founded in the 1950s in New York, Lang Electronics became popular first as a parts supplier, then a full-fledged audio gear manufacturer by the '60s, with products like the original Lang PEQ-2 -- a passive equalizer akin to a Pultec EQ with transistors instead of tubes, now considered a rare collector's item. When Heritage Audio acquired the rights to the long-dormant Lang brand in 2022, they revived and reissued the PEQ-2 -- and Heritage continues to release modern Lang-branded gear at a price point that's within reach for most musicians and engineers.

Capture great sound right up front, with Heritage Audio's painstaking recreations of the classic 1073 microphone preamp. On a budget? The Elite Series HA 73 brings their vintage-inspired preamp designs to a more affordable price point. Need more channels? The Super 8 gives you eight channels of Neve-style preamps in a two-space rack unit with an ADAT output.

Get a high-quality 1073-style preamp plus Neve-style analog EQ with Heritage Audio's acclaimed channel strips. Check out the HA73EQ for quality British tone on a budget, or go for the BritStrip if you need the utmost in preamp and EQ performance, with a built-in analog diode bridge compressor.

Thicken up your tracks with Heritage Audio's fat and warm-sounding Successor stereo bus compressor. Ultra-fast attack and release make the Successor a beast for larger-than-life drum bus compression, and there's even a sidechain function that lets you create space for vocals and more.

Sculpt busses or whole mixes with Heritage's Symph EQ, an asymptotic equalizer with L/R and M/S modes, for versatile sonic shaping.