Category: RUPERT NEVE

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…

By David Taylor 2024-11-24 3

SOUND DUBBING: The history of Video Sound Post Production for television in the UK: Part One – ‘Analogue’.

AUDIO CONSOLES BBC TELEVISION CENTRE ITV LONDON WEEKEND TELEVISION RECORDED & BROADCAST SOUND RUPERT NEVE TELEVISION SOUND TELEVISION STUDIO PROGRAMMES THAMES TELEVISION TYNE TEES TELEVISION

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.…

By David Taylor 2024-09-08 0

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.’

AUDIO CONSOLES POP and ROCK MUSIC POPULAR MUSIC RECORDED & BROADCAST SOUND RECORDING STUDIOS RUPERT NEVE TELEVISION SOUND TRANSISTOR MIXERS

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…

By David Taylor 2023-12-10 Off

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…

By David Taylor 2023-02-20 Off

Early RUPERT NEVE Consoles and their stories | PART SIX: 1969-1970 | ’16-Track Comes To London’

AUDIO CONSOLES RECORDED & BROADCAST SOUND RECORDING SESSIONS RECORDING STUDIOS RUPERT NEVE TELEVISION SOUND TELEVISION STUDIO PROGRAMMES

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…

By David Taylor 2022-10-13 4

Early RUPERT NEVE Consoles and their stories | PART FIVE: 1969-1970 | ‘Free-grouping comes to the Thames’

AUDIO CONSOLES RECORDED & BROADCAST SOUND RECORDING SESSIONS RECORDING STUDIOS RUPERT NEVE TELEVISION SOUND TELEVISION STUDIO PROGRAMMES

Researched and written by DAVID TAYLOR With information and photographs by JOHN TURNER And further assistance from BLAKE DEVITT With the help of the longest serving Neve employee John Turner, and Neve restoration expert Blake Devitt, this series of articles is setting out to give an accurate of the history of the early Rupert Neve…

By David Taylor 2022-09-09 2

Early RUPERT NEVE consoles and their stories | PART THREE: 1967 – 1968 | ‘More Little Shelford Neves’

AUDIO CONSOLES RECORDED & BROADCAST SOUND RECORDING SESSIONS RECORDING STUDIOS RUPERT NEVE TELEVISION SOUND

Researched and written by DAVID TAYLOR With information and photographs by JOHN TURNER And further assistance from BLAKE DEVITT 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.These articles were made possible…

By David Taylor 2022-09-09 3

Early RUPERT NEVE consoles and their stories | PART TWO: 1962 – 1968 | ‘A Revolution Has Occurred’

AUDIO CONSOLES RECORDED & BROADCAST SOUND RECORDING SESSIONS RECORDING STUDIOS RUPERT NEVE TELEVISION SOUND

Researched and written by DAVID TAYLOR With information and photographs by JOHN TURNER And further assistance from BLAKE DEVITT The mixer for Wessex was one of the early Neves finished in the ‘shiny black’ that Rupert used at that time. This Wessex desk survived for many years, finding a new home in California in 1981.…

By David Taylor 2022-09-09 6

Early RUPERT NEVE consoles and their stories | PART ONE: 1959-1962 | ‘Rupert’s first – the valve/tube mixers’

AUDIO CONSOLES RECORDED & BROADCAST SOUND RECORDING SESSIONS RECORDING STUDIOS RUPERT NEVE VALVE TUBE MIXERS

Researched and written by DAVID TAYLOR With information and photographs by JOHN TURNER Much of the information available on the internet concerning Rupert Neve and his mixing consoles isn’t wholly accurate, so with the help of John Turner, the longest serving employee of ‘Neve’ – in its various guises, we will try in this series…

By David Taylor 2022-06-18 10