The Holy Trinity of Neve: Three New Products Land at NAMM — and All Three Ship in April

There are moments in pro audio that make you put down your tea and pay attention. Neve rolling up to NAMM 2026 with three simultaneous product launches — spanning EQ, preamps, and conversion — is emphatically one of them.

All three ship in April 2026. All three are priced to actually sell. And taken together, they represent the most comprehensive single announcement Neve has made in years, touching every tier of the professional studio market from the bedroom producer to the broadcast facility.

The 88R LBEQ: Console-Grade EQ, 500-Series Format

Let's start with the one that will have engineers reaching for their wallets. The 88R LBEQ takes the four-band fully parametric EQ section from Neve's flagship 88RS console — the desk you'll find in Abbey Road, Air Studios, and facilities where the coffee costs more than your rent — and packs it into a single-slot 500-series module.

That means ±20 dB of gain per band, overlapping frequency ranges from 33 Hz right up to 18 kHz, and smoothly variable Q across all four bands. The low band runs from 33 Hz to 440 Hz with shelving and bell options; the low-mid covers 120 Hz to 2 kHz; the high-mid handles 800 Hz to 9 kHz; and the high band sweeps from 1.5 kHz to 18 kHz. The specs back up the pedigree: headroom of +27.2 dBu, THD+N below 0.004%, and a dynamic range exceeding 107 dB.

If you already own the 88R LB preamp and 88R LBC compressor modules, you can now build a fully authentic 88RS channel strip inside your VPR chassis. If you don't, this still stands alone as one of the most capable parametric EQs available in the 500-series format.

The price? $995 — or £954 including VAT. For genuine 88RS console EQ, that is remarkable value.

The 1073DPX-D: Your Existing Rig's New Best Friend

The 1073DPX-D is Neve's pitch to the project studio engineer who already owns an audio interface but wants a proper analogue front end. It takes the proven dual-channel 1073DPX — two complete class-A 1073 channel strips with hand-wound Marinair transformers, stepped Elma gain switches, and that iconic three-band inductor EQ — and adds integrated 10-in/12-out USB and ADAT conversion at up to 192 kHz and 24-bit resolution.

The ADAT expansion mode is the clever bit. Rather than replacing your existing interface, the 1073DPX-D can slot in alongside it, feeding two channels of genuine 1073 signal into your current setup via ADAT. USB is class-compliant, so there are no drivers to wrestle with. You also get onboard monitoring controls, digital re-amping capability, and hardware insert loops.

For the engineer who has spent years mixing in the box but craves authentic Neve colour on vocals, acoustic instruments, or DI'd bass, this is the most practical route in. At $4,450 (£3,930 including VAT), it is not cheap — but it is two complete 1073 channels with built-in conversion. That context matters.

The StarNet ADA24: Mastering-Grade Dante for the Networked Facility

The third launch is aimed squarely at the facility market. The StarNet ADA24 is a 24×24 analogue-to-digital and digital-to-analogue converter with Dante connectivity, built for studios, broadcasters, post-production houses, and anyone running audio-over-IP infrastructure.

The specifications speak for themselves: THD+N of typically 0.0008% at 1 kHz, ADC dynamic range exceeding 119 dBFS, DAC dynamic range above 122 dBFS, and selectable analogue headroom at +18, +24, or +26 dBu. The output stages are derived from the 88R console. Dual-redundant Dante ports provide the network failover that broadcast and live environments demand. Connections are DB25 in TASCAM standard format, and there is word clock I/O for precision synchronisation.

Neve says the ADA24 was developed in collaboration with "some of the world's most respected facilities," and at $4,695 (£3,954 including VAT), it undercuts several competitors while offering specs that will satisfy the most demanding mastering engineers.

The Bigger Picture

What makes this announcement significant is not any single product — it is the scope. In one NAMM showing, Neve has addressed the 500-series enthusiast, the project studio owner, and the networked facility. That is a company thinking about the full breadth of the professional audio market, not just its traditional top end.

The fact that all three products ship in April 2026 — not "later this year," not "Q3," but next month — makes this immediately actionable. If you have been waiting for a reason to add Neve to your signal chain, the wait is over.