Heritage Audio was founded in 2011 by Peter Rodriguez, a sound engineer and producer with extensive experience in the music industry, aiming to bring back the golden age of recording hardware and adapt it to the needs of 21st Century studios. The company that resulted has not stopped designing and manufacturing products that emulate the circuits of the most popular analog preamplifiers and signal processing units of the sixties and the seventies. All Heritage Audio products are designed and manufactured in Spain by a 15-person team in its recently expanded production plant, located in the heart of Madrid.
Now, Heritage Audio has expanded its ability to offer even more hardware products that match this philosophy, after having secured the rights to Lang Electronics, Inc., and all its designs that were considered as a better value alternative to other professional audio companies of its day. Particularly thanks to the popularity of products such as the Model PEQ-2 (a.k.a. ‘Lang Program Equalizer’), still held in high regard by many discerning artists, engineers, and producers who consider it to be better than a Pultec, and choose it as their secret weapon in modern music production. This is why Peter Rodriguez, as the new owner of the brand, plans to bring its products back to life as creative tools that can fit today's production methods, without any of the inconveniences and maintenance issues of the vintage originals.
Originally operating out of downtown New York, Lang Electronics, enjoyed a reasonable run stretching from the fifties through to the sixties. Starting out by providing enhanced replacement parts and modifications to improve the performance and reliability of other well-known audio processors and recorders used in the broadcast and recording industries of the time, the company soon set about supplying complete audio systems, designing equipment of its own at very competitive prices — often with better quality than their contemporaries.
Heritage Audio is intent on offering professional equipment with a similar philosophy to Lang Electronics. The first product to be produced by Heritage Audio after this well-intentioned acquisition will be the LANG PEQ-2, which most studios today know well from the multiple plugin versions. Heritage intends to offer it a at a price that will put it within reach of most musicians and engineers. The company also says that it is only a question of time until more LANG products will be announced.
Classic After Classic
Perfectly encapsulating its philosophy of making classic, legendary sound possible for today’s studios, Heritage Audio recently launched its stunning Tubesessor, an optical tube compressor that retains all the best features required for recording voice and bass - where it is essential to retain all the individual character and emotion - while offering natural, transparent dynamic control. Offering an affordable option that matches that sought-after sound,the Tubesessor represents Heritage Audio’s 21st-century take on a classic design.
As a unique design manufactured in the European Union, using only top-of-the-line components and custom transformers at the input and output stages, as well as NOS tubes operating at an extremely high internal voltage, the 3U Tubesessor (US $2,499.00 MAP) revisits many of the useful improvements that have been introduced in the original designs, while rethinking the controls for modern music production applications.
This includes a large and attractive VU meter that monitors either IN (input), GR (gain reduction), and OUT (output), a vintage-looking red jewel on light and beautiful custom potentiometers. The unit uses Raytheon CK5755 (double triode) and audiophile-grade Psvane 12BH7A (double triode) tubes, which Heritage says it sourced in quantities. US distribution is handled via RAD Distribution
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