To the best of my memories, these particular preamps were designed as clones, as close as clones can get, to a class A Neve preamp similar to the 1073 preamp section. And so I gave you all those transformers that has a great deal to do with its character. It's not your only choice. Full-bodied fully colored. Transparent? Hardly.

Neve & API owner
Mx. Remy Ann David

i thought the mp-2 was the first preamp by great river built from the ground up - and the "nv2" is the neve clone with some noise rejection etc.

teeno7, post: 348892 wrote: i thought the mp-2 was the first preamp by great river built from the ground up - and the "nv2" is the neve clone with some noise rejection etc.

You are correct. (Well, I don't know about "noise rejection" but yes the MP-2NV is the Neve clone.)

The original MP-2 was more neutral, less (for lack of a better word) "hairy" than the MP-2NV.

I have a MP-2MH which I bought new a few years ago. It is now no longer manufactured. It is very clean and transparent and has enough clean gain to work well with ribbon mikes. The MP-2NV came out later and is based about the Neve 1073 design but with a number of changes for a clearer sound.