A History of Neve Consoles

[ITHertz]

Hi All,

I just came across this one:

https://postfade.co.uk/early-rupert-nev ... ve-mixers/

It's a very detailed history of Neve consoles. I haven't had a chance to look through it yet, but it looks very good!

"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 of articles to give a more accurate account of the history of the early Rupert Neve consoles; with an historical timeline from his first mixer, up until 1975, which was when Rupert himself left his own Neve company."

Cheers,

Chris

[amanise]

That looks interesting! I notice there's a PDF download option so you can take it away with you. Thanks for sharing that! I love old kit. There was an old Jazzer that used to come to a pub near me every year called Humphrey Lyttleton. His sound guy (always the same guy who was about the same age as him) always used the same desk which was made of highly polished wood (looked like Teak) - and weighed an absolute Ton! It had about 12 channels, no more than that, and inside you could see the lovely warm glow of valves. It had that 'welcome to the 1940s' soft warm sound. Never found out what it was and it had no easily visible badges. I wonder what that could have been.

[sc1460]

Hey thanks so much for posting this! Just awesome to understand the history of the greatest recording consoles ever…

…80s pop music would have sounded so much better through Neves rather than SSL’s
Cheers
H

[Martin Walker]

Fascinating stuff - thanks for the link Chris!