Longtime friend and fellow gear affeciando, Jay Fitz has come on board to offer Mercury Recording Equipment to his and all Mercenary Audio clients.

Jay and I have known each other for most of the 15 years I have been in this business we call pro audio. We both started the vintage side of things in the beginning and then both shifted gears around 2000, Mercenary got away from "vintage" to offer more new lines of gear and I began manufacturing Mercury which is new gear, based on the best vintage circuits. So, it was only a matter of time that we crossed paths and worked together, and that time has come now.

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Small and Close Dealer Network... Yet They are Over 7400 Miles Away?

Mercury would like to welcome Lewis Chiodo and Awave to our close and small, Professional Mercury dealer network. Although we are over 7400 miles away from eachother, we have met and chatted many times about Awave offering Mercury Recording Equipment to their Australian clients. Lewis inquired about coming on board nearly 5 years ago, before we started exporting out of the USA, and the timing was just not right. Now, the timing could not be better and Mercury is happy to announce that Lewis and Awave is ‘the source’ for Mercury Recording Equipment in Australia.

Hand built, high quality recording equipment including all-tube/all-transformer equalizers, limiters and microphone amplifiers, as well as solid state equipment in the tradition of classic studio equipment from companies like Pultec, Fairchild, Telefunken and Langevin.

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Mercury AM16 and AM16/1 Transistor-Type Microphone Preamplifiers: Based on the Langevin AM16.

Mercury Grand Pre and GP1 Solid State Microphone Preamplifiers: The new, Alternative British Classic!

Mercury M72s/1 Studio Microphone Amplifier: single channel version.

Mercury M76m/1 Studio Microphone Amplifier: single channel version.

Answers by: Joe Chicarelli, Neil Dorfsman, Devin Powers, Brian Garcia, Jim Zumpano and more.

Mercury's 13 Questions is a chance for us all to learn more about some of the recording industry's best producers, engineers, musicians and creative souls.

Jim “Jim Z” Zumpano
Issue 4
Producer/Engineer and Owner of ZAC Digital, Stonehenge Recording, and Eclipse Audio Rentals in Hotlanta (Atlanta), Georgia.

Joe Chiccarelli
Issue 3
Multi-Grammy winner Joe Chiccarelli has worked with an impressive group of artists, including Elton John, Beck, U2, Herb Alpert, The Shins, Jonathan Richman, Brian Wilson, Joan Baez and Etta James, to name a few.

Devin Powers
Issue 2
If you've watched television in the last decade, chances are you've heard Devin's work. In addition to writing for TV and film, Devin produces and records tracks in Los Angeles. Right now he's working with Deanna Johnston.

NEW AUSTRALIAN DEALER!!!
Awave is the new Australian Mercury Recording Equipment Co. Dealer... we would like to welcome Lewis and the crew to the family.

GLOBAL WARMING!!!
Mercury Recording Equipment is happy to announce we have added more dealers to the Mercury family... and our way of “helping” with Global Warming, of Audio paths anyway. Although the Polar Icecaps are safe from our version of Global warming, many studios around the world are now going to be able to easily find the warm tone Mercury is famous for.

In addition to our good friend Matthias Flache at Vintage City in Germany, Mercury welcomes Bo and all at Golden Age Music in Scandinavia (Sweden, Norway, Finland and Denmark), and George and the crew at Steve’s Music in Canada.

In the USA, you can still buy direct from Mercury through Marquette Audio Labs or from one of our two US dealers: Atlas Pro Audio in Florida or Vintage King Audio with offices in Detroit, Los Angeles, Nashvillle and New York.