Neve 33135
A single-channel vintage EQ module that turns up in classified ads more often than in studios. The asking price explains why.
Overview
The Neve 33135 surfaces almost exclusively through the back pages of the trade press. In the mid-1990s, British brokers listed these "Vintage Eq's each module" at £295 a pop, alongside Neve 1073s, 1064s, and 2254E limiters. That kind of inventory ran in Studio Sound's equipment-for-sale columns week after week. According to those same listings, the module was also sold racked in pairs, and one 1994 Studio Sound (November 1994, p.100) advert offered a "pair, racked" as its own line item. The trade treated it as a commodity component, priced by the module and often bundled into custom racks.
Across the Atlantic the pricing shifts. Mix (April 1994, p.208) ran a "Huge Microphone and Processing Sale" that listed the 33135 at $900, next to a 33134 at $1k, a 1073 at $1.5k, and a Pultec EQP-1A3 at $3K. A second Mix ad (August 1994, p.229) repeated the same $900 figure. So by the mid-'90s the 33135 was valued below the flagship 1073, at roughly 60% of a 1073's asking price in the same ad, but still well above generic outboard. Buyers paid real money for a Neve-badged EQ, just not 1073 money.
What the period documents confirm is thin. The 33135 appears in dealer inventories as a "Vintage Eq" module, sold individually and in racked pairs. Occasionally a rack build combined six 33135s and two 33314 compressors. One Studio Sound (March 1996, p.55) advert described exactly that configuration, "racked in blue with all psu's refurbished and MINT," at £3,995. The module was routinely married to Neve compressors in custom housings, and a complete, refurbished rack commands a premium over loose modules. Buyers should expect to find 33135s either bare or already racked with a power supply, and should price accordingly.
These modules recur across 1994-1996 British and American trade listings: Studio Sound (February 1995, p.79), Studio Sound (April 1995, p.79), Studio Sound (June 1995, p.55), and the Mix ads cited above. That suggests a steady secondary market rather than a rare collectible. These were working modules pulled from consoles and resold by brokers who dealt in Neve spares "psu, modules etc, loads." The phrase repeats verbatim in multiple adverts. The 33135 was part of a broader Neve module supply being liquidated and recycled through the trade.
The 33135 is a genuine Neve EQ module with a documented resale history in the $900 / £295 range during the mid-1990s, frequently sold in pairs or in custom racks alongside Neve dynamics. Documentation on its circuit topology, frequency points, and original console application is scarce in the period sources. The trade ads identify it as an EQ and price it, but don't describe it. Anyone chasing one should verify the module's condition and confirm whether a PSU and rack are included. The "Vintage Eq" label is the extent of what the contemporary record establishes, and the details beyond that require hands-on inspection.
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