Heritage Audio has done it again. Acclaimed for their modern versions of classic English rack gear, the company now turns their attention across the Atlantic with the MotorCity EQualizer, a spot-on reproduction of a 1960s design built in-house at Motown Studios in Detroit. Over the course of that decade, Motown fostered a culture of incessant innovation that generated an arsenal of homegrown hit-making equipment such as the original EQs that inspired the MotorCity EQualizer. Painstakingly re-created from vintage Motown units, the MotorCity EQ is a single-channel, 7-band passive affair housed in a robust 2U chassis; hand-wired with custom-built replicas of the original discrete, mil-spec components; and fronted by a 10-gauge hand-brushed aluminum faceplate bearing a historically accurate control set complete with custom-molded Bakelite knobs.