Early RUPERT NEVE consoles and their stories | PART THREE: 1967 – 1968 | ‘More Little Shelford Neves’
AUDIO CONSOLES LIGHT ENTERTAINMENT OUTSIDE BROADCAST POP and ROCK MUSIC POPULAR MUSIC RADIO SOUND RECORDING SESSIONS RECORDING STUDIOS RUPERT NEVE TELEVISION SOUND TRANSISTOR MIXERS VALVE TUBE MIXERS
Researched and written by DAVID TAYLOR With information and photographs by JOHN TURNER Continuing the story of the early Neve consoles, with more of the ‘shiny black finish’ germanium transistors mixers that Rupert Neve constructed in his converted stable block at ‘Priesthaus’ in Little Shelford. I haven’t credited the many images that John Turner has…
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 ’70’s 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…
1968 – ANGLIA TELEVISION | SOME MORE PHOTOS
BY DAVID TAYLOR As I’ve come across some more images, here is an additional post about Anglia Television, culled from a couple of Anglia promotional brochures from 1967 or 1968.For my first post about Anglia TV, start HERELet’s start with the OB Scanner. CVG333D was delivered in 1966 in time for the commencement of the…
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 – 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…
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,…
1967 – ANGLIA TELEVISION | a look at the ‘GLAMOUR ’67’ OUTSIDE BROADCAST
By DAVID TAYLOR For the first in this series of posts on my years at Anglia Television look HERE In the summer of 1967, Anglia took the OB Unit around East Anglia’s seaside towns and as the Anglia region was reaching well into Lincolnshire, we sometimes headed north, around The Wash up as far as…
1967 – ANGLIA TELEVISION | LIVE AT AN AIRSHOW.
by DAVID TAYLOR For the first in this series of posts on my years at Anglia Television look here: HERE In September 1967 the large RAF fighter base at RAF Coltishall was one of the many RAF stations that opened their doors at the anniversary of The Battle-of-Britain and held an airshow. Anglia TV decided…