The
superb 'Abbey Road' classic Neve console restoration project is nearing completion
at Great Linford Manor Studios.
The new Abbey Road
Vintage Neve has used the original A3097 EMI Abbey Road 36-channel
console with a new and modified centre section, including Flying
Fader Automation master controls, and the addition of the main
channel facilities of A3098 EMI Pathe Marconi console.
Find
out more, watch these two videos:
 Chief
tech, Blake, talks about the restoration project.
Owner
Pete Winkelman talks about the console.
It features
original 24 track buses, 12 additional group buses and 12 aux buses,
8 off the channel and 4 off the monitor. All original features of
the desk have been restored, with the addition of 72 direct outputs
with switched independent level control.
The 24 monitor
channels have access to the 4-track mix bus in addition to 4 of the
multi-track buses and 4 of the group buses. They can monitor three
independent machine inputs, all of which can be viewed by the main
VU metering.
5 things you didn’t
know about the new
Abbey Road Vintage Neve:
- The ‘Wish You
Were Here’ album by Pink Floyd was the first recording on the
console (A3097) in Studio 3 at Abbey Road Studios in 1975 and led
the way for literally hundreds of seminal recordings during the late
Seventies and Eighties.
- It’s sister
console (A3098) at Pathe Marconi in Paris was equally productive
during this time recording international artists such as the Rolling
Stones as well as the world-renowned classical recordings.
- The new combined
console, with 72 channels and 24 monitor returns, is 14’6” long!
- The right-hand side
of the console features a straight run of 48 Neve channels, the
longest single run of any Vintage Neve console in the world.
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The console
features 154 VU meters, all with transformer balanced buffer
amplifier driver boards.
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 If you are
interested in this console and would like to find out more, please contact Pete Winkelman by clicking
here.
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