5315

The 5315 belongs to Neve's 5000-series — a line of smaller-format broadcast and post-production mixers built alongside the famous 80-series recording consoles. Compared to the 8014 / 8024 production desks of the same era, the 5300-series mixers were aimed at radio broadcast, film dubbing and post-production rooms where transparent routing and reliable transformer-coupled circuitry mattered more than the heavy 80-series module count. Like every Neve of the period, the 5315 used the company's Class A discrete electronics with custom Marinair-style transformers on the audio path. A 5315 remains in working use at Volta Studio in Tokyo, where JacoTen photographed it integrated into a modern Pro Tools workflow — a small Neve still earning its keep four decades on.