Orban

Explore Orban vintage audio equipment in the Vintage Technology Archive.

Models

764B — Orban 764B programmable parametric EQ — 4 bands, 99 memory registers, no VCAs in the audio path, and Orban's sliding Besselworth filter.
SC-66A — Little-documented Orban SC-66A equalizer; period record shows a $599 list price in a January 1981 ad. Honest archive page.
UREI-1176 — UREI 1176 limiter — the studio workhorse that appeared in equipment lists from 1979 to 1990, from eight-track rooms to SSL facilities. Period pricing and studio documentation.

DSE-7000 — Orban DSE-7000 — AKG-designed 8-track hard-disk editing workstation for radio, 16-bit 4x oversampled, 32/44.1/48kHz, later Orban-branded.

516-E — Orban 516-E (516EC) Dynamic Sibilance Controller — three-channel de-esser for studio and cinema, $595 in 1977, automatic level tracking over 20dB.

1176LN — Orban 1176LN — brand attribution unverified; period record describes the 1176LN as a UREI peak limiter, four ratios, $596 in 1986.
621-B — Orban 621-B two-channel parametric equalizer from the mid-1970s, documented mainly through Studio Sound ads; under £400 UK list.
672-A — Orban 672-A: a professional 8-band parametric equalizer with tunable high/low-pass filters, usable as an electronic crossover. Introduced 1979 at $499.
674-A — Orban 674-A — an early-1980s stereo equalizer from Orban, documented mainly through an October 1981 Modern Recording review. Little else is known.

BX-20 — The Orban BX-20-inch is almost certainly a misattribution — the BX-20 spring reverb was made by AKG, not Orban. Here's what the record actually shows.

111-B — Orban 111-B dual spring reverb: two independent channels, floating threshold limiter, quasi-parametric EQ, $899 list, ~$300 used.
412A — Orban 412A mono compressor/limiter, advertised at $425 in 1984 with illuminated gain-reduction meter. Little documented; record is mostly launch ads.
516-EC — Orban 516-EC Dynamic Sibilance Controller — three-channel de-esser in one rack space, $595 new, 1ms attack, 107dB overload/noise ratio.

412A/414A — Orban 412A/414A compressor/limiter — the streamlined Blue Chip, $425 mono / $799 stereo, with cross-coupled peak limiting and a 20dB threshold range for transparent level control.
422A/424A — Orban 422A/424A Gated Compressor/Limiter/De-Esser — the Studio Optimod. Mono and dual-channel versions of Orban's transparent dynamics processor.
672A/674A — Orban 672A/674A Paracrossalizer — 8-band parametric EQ plus tunable 12dB/oct highpass/lowpass filters usable as an electronic crossover. Mono 672A, stereo 674A.
MODEL-245E — Orban Model 245E Stereo Synthesiser — patented five-band mono-to-stereo synthesis with exact mono compatibility, advertised at $299.
MODEL-412A — Orban Model 412A Compressor/Limiter (1984) — mono dynamics processor at $425 list, with feedback circuitry adapted from the 424A and a Class-A Orban VCA.