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The factory for the Royal Air Force microphone was in Harlow, so it seemed to be logical that we would look for a place that was half-way between the two places and didn’t have to travel too much.” ” I was also working as a consultant to various companies doing microphone design for the Royal Air Force and loudspeaker design for one of the Philips companies in Cambridge.
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‘Have you ever heard of these transistors?’Ĥ| 1964: ‘More guitar please’ – Philips Records Tape Control Unit.ĥ| 1964: ‘The first modern sound mixer’ – Neve’s dual mobile consoles for Philips.Ħ| 1965: ‘Industrial Applications’ – Neve’s other audio equipment.ħ| 1965/6: ‘Mixer for a Town House’ – The Philips Studio 20 channel Neve.Ĩ| 1966: ‘The Church Hall Neve’ – The Wessex Studio 18 channel.ġ966/7: ‘Two for the road’ – Intertel’s Neve consoles.ĩ| 1966: ‘The first mobile Neve’ – The Intertel 24 channel.ġ0| 1967: ‘The same but bigger’ – The Intertel 30 channel Neve.ġ1| 1966: ‘The really small Neve’ – The Portable Sound Mixer.ġ2| 1966: ‘The Station Of The Stars’ – Radio Luxembourg’s 8 channel mono Neve. Hopefully the other other photos used are correctly credited. I haven’t credited the many images that John Turner has contributed. Neve engineers built these consoles as creative tools, so as well as detailing the consoles, we’ll put in some names of the people who built them those that used them, and some the work they produced, in all the extremely varied areas of sound. We are lucky that some of Rupert’s own memories are preserved in videos on his own RND website but as many years had passed, I don’t think he would have minded if we point out that his dates may not always have been wholly accurate. Also useful are the Billboard magazine ‘Recording Studio Directories’, from 1970 to 1975, which lists recording studios and their facilities, showing which had Neve’s. The same modules were often used on numerous consoles, so the list isn’t in absolute sequential order, but we’ll use it to find our way through the Neve’s produced as best we can. There is however a copy of a folder listing the drawings for the various mixer modules that Neve produced through those early years. There is no listing of every early Neve built so John has to rely on shuffling the many ‘bits of paper’ to source information on the oldest mixers.
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With the help of John Turner, the longest serving employee of ‘Neve’ – in its various guises, we will try in this series of articles to give an accurate as possible account of the history of the early Rupert Neve mixing consoles, up until 1975, which was when Rupert himself left Neve.
This Wessex desk survived for many years, finding a new home in California in 1981. The mixer for Wessex was, along with others built for Philips, one of the early Neve’s finished in the ‘shiny black’ that Rupert used at that time. Still favorite on Bass and I have a very good mic selection.From ‘In The Studio’ in Beat Instrumental magazine The best mic for electric guitar time and time again, has everything and want another. I was happy with the mic before and now I am extremely happy. About a year ago gave mic to 'open plan recording' to try his hand made CK12 capsule in there. These AKGs are said to have the same diaphragm (CK12) though 'the tube' has the non brass (same as 414 BULS) I was always wondering to swap out my original 414 CK12 to make a super C12 though couldn't bring myself to spoiling an original 414. Since owning an original U47 and U67 it has been not used as much for vocals though it will hold it's own in a shootout. Have had great vocals with upper mid dip and siblance. Usually considered better (I like tubes ,) than my very special original silver 414's or my silver414EB and ****s on my Black 414BULS.Įlectric guitar and Bass always in figure 8.
Have had comments that it sounded better than another bought after hearing mine so maybe quality differences in production.(?)Ī lot of sibilance and a dip in the upper mids.
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Great mic, have had mine since new (1987?) Serial no.
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