1965 to Early ’80’s – PYE BROADCAST AUDIO CONSOLES | PART TWO: BIGGER ‘SCANNERS’
PART TWO CONTENTS: SCANNERS GET BIGGER – WITH SEPARATED VISION, PRODUCTION and SOUND The Colour Demonstration Unit The ’70s with the silicon transistorised mixers 1| BBC CMCR13 2| 1968-1970 BBC CMCR TYPE 2 SCANNERS The BBC version of the Pye transistorised console of the 1970Video excerpt one: Smaller Pye desks were still to be found…
1950’s: PYE BROADCAST AUDIO CONSOLES | PART THREE: THE VALVE STUDIO MIXERS
UPDATED ARTICLE: A NEW HIGH-RESOLUTION PHOTO OF A PYE 16-CHANNEL MIXER HAS ALLOWED ME TO EXPLORE MORE DETAILS OF THESE VALVE CONSOLES FROM OVER 60 YEARS AGO. Contents: 1| 1950s: THE PYE VALVE STUDIO MIXERS Typical 1950s Installations 2| 1957-59: A Typical Pye Valve Mixer (Type 2948F) In Detail Film of the GTV9 Pye 16-channel…
1960’s – PYE BROADCAST AUDIO CONSOLES | PART FOUR: THE INNOVATIVE PYE TRANSISTOR TV STUDIO MIXER
CONTENTS:THE FIRST MODULAR BROADCAST STUDIO MIXER 1| ATV’s four 34-channel consoles for Elstree The modular ‘cassettes’ Enough ‘Drama’ for the Gram Op ‘The Plane Makers’ being recorded in September 1963 Video excerpt one: The last of the Elstree Pyes 2| Pyes for other clients 3| The BBC equip with even bigger desks The biggest UK…
1967 – ‘OUR WORLD’ | PART TWO: ‘ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE’ | THE BBC O.B. AT ABBEY ROAD WITH THE BEATLES
For ‘PART ONE: 1967 – ‘OUR WORLD’ Live TV links ‘THE WORLD’….HOW IT WAS MADE AND PRESENTED’….start HERE. THE IDEA FOR THE BEATLES SEGMENT The decision to make a Beatles recording session part of the ‘Our World’ programme, might have come from either the producer Aubrey Singer or the TV director Derek Burrell-Davis but both…
1967 – ‘OUR WORLD’ | LIVE TV LINKS ‘THE WORLD’ | PART ONE: HOW IT WAS MADE AND PRESENTED
By David Taylor Part One: An in-depth look at how this worldwide live programme was put together, and with lots of video excerpts, will hopefully explain the finished programme.Part Two: How both the recording teams that worked with the Beatles and the television crew that set up in EMI Studio 1 all together made something…
1970 – BERNSTEIN’s VERDI REQUIEM | BOB AUGER’S CBS RECORDING AT THE ROYAL ALBERT HALL
BY DAVID TAYLOR PART TWO OF TWO: (Do start with my previous post, about the St.Paul’s concert: HERE) CONTENTS: CBS DO A ‘CLASSICAL QUADRAPHONIC’ RECORDING BOB AUGER – THE UK’s MOST EXPERIENCED ‘FREELANCE’ CLASSICAL ENGINEER THE CBS PRODUCTION TEAM THE CONTROL ROOM SET-UP THE ORCHESTRA AND MIC LAYOUT BOB AUGER’S NEVE CONSOLES THE ORCHESTRA, CHOIR…
1970 – BERNSTEIN’s VERDI REQUIEM – ST.PAUL’S CONCERT | 50 years later – the recovered stereo mix
BY DAVID TAYLOR PART ONE OF TWO (Part Two covers the parallel CBS Records recording done by Bob Auger at The Royal Albert Hall.) CONTENTS:BIG MUSIC IN A BIG ROOM BERNSTEIN LEAVES A POLITICAL PROBLEM BEHIND AN ‘INSANE SCHEDULE’ “TALE OF 3 TENORS AND A CONDUCTOR” LWT GOES INTO ‘CO-PRODUCTION’ HUMPHREY BURTON’S MEMORIES MIKING THE…
1959 – ‘THIS IS THE BBC’ – RICHARD CAWSON’S DOCUMENTARY.
By DAVID TAYLOR In 1959 Richard Cawson produced this great documentary showing 24 hours of the BBC. It features BBC Radio in Broadcasting House, BBC World Service at Bush House and BBC TV at Lime Grove and both radio and TV at a couple of the the BBC ‘regional outposts’. Television Centre didn’t get finished…