Early Rupert Neve Consoles and their stories | PART SEVEN: 1970 | ‘The first 24-Track Neve’
AUDIO CONSOLES BBC TELEVISION LONDON WEEKEND TELEVISION POP and ROCK MUSIC POPULAR MUSIC RECORDED & BROADCAST SOUND RECORDING SESSIONS RECORDING STUDIOS RUPERT NEVE TELEVISION SOUND TELEVISION STUDIO PROGRAMMES TRANSISTOR MIXERS WEMBLEY STUDIOS
Researched and written by DAVID TAYLOR With information and photographs by JOHN TURNER And further assistance from BLAKE DEVITT Much of the internet history of Neve is confused, so with lots of help from John Turner, and by delving into the Neve files that Blake Devitt has been carefully looking after, these articles aim to…
1949 to 1967 – PYE BROADCAST AUDIO CONSOLES | PART ONE: THE OB ‘SCANNERS’
BY DAVID TAYLOR PART ONE CONTENTS: The early scanners with valve mixers:1| 1949 – BBC MCR3 and 6 2| 1951 and 1952 – BBC MCR11 and 12 Video excerpt one: 3| 1953 – Pye scanners go InternationalThe Aussies restore their very first scanner4| 1955 – ITV arrives and starts buying scannersThe ’60’s with the first…
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…
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…
1955 – A BBC OB MCR SCANNER AT WEMBLEY | A QUICK LOOK
By DAVID TAYLOR Here’s a short video, courtesy the superb BBC Archive …well in this case their Twitter account. It shows the sort of equipment that BBC OB’s had in one of their Pye TVT built ‘Mobile Control Rooms’ at the Wembley ‘Palace of Arts’ OB base in 1955. Great seeing the Marconi MkII camera,…