TELL US YOUR NEVE CONSOLE’s ‘A’ NUMBER!
1969 Neve Project Engineer Derek Stoddart changed the haphazard Neve Console numbering system by introducing the ‘A’ serial Numbers for all Neve Projects. Although this applied to all types of Projects, it brought into being a unique identifying system for tracking Neve Consoles. Over the years John Turner, Geoff Tanner, Blake Devitt and myself have…
The Early Neve Consoles and Modules Detailed So Far:
With eleven articles in this series published, I thought it worthwhile to produce a list of the individual Neve Consoles and the Modules that we have detailed so far. The ident numbers refer to those used in the articles, and can be used to ‘jump’ to the correct place in each article. ‘Jump’ back here…
Early Rupert Neve Consoles and their stories | PART ELEVEN: 1973 | The ‘extravagant’ Neve for Barclay in Paris and ‘The console that disappeared’.
Researched and written by DAVID TAYLOR With information and photographs by JOHN TURNER And further assistance from BLAKE DEVITT and Neve Project Engineer TONY MALE Thanks to John, Blake and Tony for providing the important Neve documentation to help provide an accurate history. THE ‘TECHNICAL’ CONTENTS If you’re interested in just the ‘techy bits”, these…
Early Rupert Neve Consoles and their stories | PART TEN: 1972-1973 | ‘Free-grouping’ at LWT and Neve Mic Amps change some more.
Researched and written by DAVID TAYLOR With information and photographs by JOHN TURNER And further assistance from BLAKE DEVITT Thanks to John and Blake for providing the important Neve documentation to help provide an accurate history. This website should ‘scale’ for viewing on a desktop, and smaller laptop and mobile devices. However it is best…
Early Rupert Neve Consoles and their stories | PART NINE: 1971-1972 | “Three-Man Neves”
Researched and written by DAVID TAYLOR With information and photographs by JOHN TURNER And further assistance from BLAKE DEVITT Thanks to John and Blake for providing the important Neve documentation to help provide an accurate history and hopefully my own interest in researching how these consoles were used, and by whom, illuminates the changing face…
SOUND DUBBING: The history of Video Sound Post Production for television in the UK: Part One – ‘Analogue’.
This is a ‘personal look’ based on my experience of the early days of TV sound dubbing and relates to working for ITV’s London Weekend TV, along with my interest in the methods employed by the other major broadcasters in London; the BBC and Thames TV. So excuse me if I’m initially concentrating on them.…
Early Rupert Neve Consoles and their stories | PART EIGHT: 1970 -1971 | ‘Neves for Prague, Moscow and for Decca. Ireland gets the biggest Neve order and wrap-around desks for Elstree.’
Researched and written by DAVID TAYLOR With information and photographs by JOHN TURNER And further assistance from BLAKE DEVITT With enormous amounts of help from John Turner, and by also delving into the Neve files that Blake Devitt has been carefully looking after, this is the eighth part of the articles aiming to give the history…
Early Rupert Neve Consoles and their stories | PART SEVEN: 1970 | ‘The first 24-Track Neve’
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…
UPDATE:
I’ve added lots more to one of the ‘Pye Audio Mixer’ articles, the one on the valve studio mixers. This was brought about by my obtaining a great colour photo of a surviving desk in Melbourne, and has enabled a much more detailed description of what these old valve mixers could, and couldn’t do. Click…
Early RUPERT NEVE Consoles and their stories | PART SIX: 1969-1970 | ’16-Track Comes To London’
By DAVID TAYLOR Researched and written by DAVID TAYLOR With information and photographs by JOHN TURNER Assisted with information from BLAKE DEVITT Thanks to the considerable help of John and Blake, this series of articles is trying to give an accurate account of the history of the early Rupert Neve mixing consoles up to 1975, when…