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Get off my LAWN! "Grumpy Old Farts"
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What the hey? Hardly.
I was down in the British Honduras (Belize now) on Ambergris Caye in '72. Tried making small talk with a group of young school girls (10-12) in uniform, on their way home from school. Used an 'e' instead of an 'a'.
Got slapped for the mistake, I did.
Been very careful ever since.
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We're not still talking about the Gibson Girls at a 7ender reveal party are we?
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That's all I need. A revealed Gibson Girl. 
SeinfeldI like the female name...Mulva......
Bonus points if you get the reference.
I like the female name...Mulva......
Bonus points if you get the reference.
Rupert Neve changed the recording industry. He founded Neve Electronics which eventually became AMS-Neve which still manufacturers copies of his designs. He founded Focusrite. George Martin approached Rupert Neve and asked for custom modules for his studio’s Neve recording console for his AIR Montserrat studio. Sir George requested a no-compromise mic pre and EQ that would feature low noise and wide bandwidth and would be exceptionally musical, a feature that was true of all of Rupert Neve’s designs. Then he founded Rupert Neve Designs and remained active in the company. You would be hard pressed to find any large studio in the world that doesn’t use some of his equipment. Count me as one who uses both Neve and Focusrite designed products.
Mr. Neve died at 94 a few days ago. He was a nice man who always had some amazing stories to tell.
Mr. Neve died at 94 a few days ago. He was a nice man who always had some amazing stories to tell.
And the guitar player still can’t get HIS tone.
I didn't know that he recently died. We had a Neve console in the control booth at Weigel Hall that I'd used back in the early '80s. The console Rupert is sitting at in that photo is similar to that of Tony Visconti's in the Breaking down "Heroes" video.
He was truly a gift to the musical world. Is this Sir George's studio?
I think they are the same studio/console.
Don’t know the origin of that image. This is the AIR Montserrat console.
Some interesting notes here:
Throwback Thursdays: Story of Montserrat AIR Studios & Dire Straits - DireStraits
I'm not used to seeing Neve consoles laid out so flat like a SSL.
That’s true. You can get consoles in straight or curved configurations, flat or tilted up like typical Neve’s are. SSL makes curved consoles as well. Consoles are modular so wedges can be added between buckets. I think that there were only a few of the original Neve/Focusrite designed consoles made. The company didn’t do well because they were made to the highest standard which proved too expensive. Neve sold Focusrite and they went on to make some amazing consoles.
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Pick up a SM58s and next thing you know we have an internetish overhead slide projector presentation on recording consoles 
I believe that was the 1970 Neve 80 series console in The Magic Shop in Soho, NYC. It came from the BBC, two consoles were put together with the help of Rupert Neve to create 56 inputs. It’s the only console like it. And yes, Bowie did record there.
The Magic Shop went out of business in 2016. The high rent did them in. The console went to Sonic Circus for a restoration and was bought by The Barn, located in Salon, Iowa.
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Guitar players never get "their" tone. The earlier blues band I was in rehearsed for awhile at a converted warehouse space. It was always a hoot seeing these guys bringing a full Marshall stack or an SVT to a rehearsal. I was talking to a recording engineer about mic'ing guitars and he said there was a guy who brought a full stack to a session. The engineer said you don't need all that, I'm putting the mic in front of one speaker. The guitar player said he needed the full stack to get "his tone". lol.
Then again that might have been the only amp they had. I was lugging around an SVT410HLF for a couple of years.
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