One of two EMI REDD 37s from Abbey Road- note V72s in side racks

The extraordinary EMI Neve from Abbey Road. It's back in London again after visiting America.

The first Neve we ever sold- the desk from AIR studio 2- still happily working away in NYC
 

Don Henley's API after Brent modified it the first time, before he made it straight

A lovely photo by John Cuniberti

Pre-War Neumann bottle Mic

A single shipment of mics circa 1992- note the M50s with clear jewels

Neve 8078 (oh no! class AB amplifiers!)

The control room in Coast Recorders circa 1992

One of the custom EMI Neve's- this one from Paris the forerunner of the 8078

Another picture of Neve 4-Band, the forerunner of 8078

Neve 8048

Gigantic wraparound Helios- God forbid you should ever need to move it!

Frank Sinatra singing into a Telefunken Ela M251

A small portion of the microphones from my first international mic hunt in 1979- I count 13 U47s the bottleneck mic center left is a U47P made for Philips

The Rockets circa 1972: (from left to right) John Cuniberti (famous rec eng/producer), Dan Alexander in hat, Chris Solberg (ex-Santana, Eddie Money musician extraordinaire), Ed Mahoney (AKA Eddie Money)

Today you can get a Neve, a Studer, and 3,000 pieces of outboard gear for the same price

The console from Coast Recorders circa 1992- the expanded 8026: it took us 2 years to finish the console
 

1) a Neve 542 16-input portable desktop mixer
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

2) a custom broadcast console with 1064 input modules that we bought in 1984
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

3) we bought this Neve, our first, from Don Larking in 1980 and installed it in a media overdub room at Hyde St. Studios-
it later won an award as the oldest functioning Neve in North America

Some Neve with 4 band EQ (1081,1083,1095...?)

Trident A range 28/24/48

Trident B range 40 inputs, Originally from Sarm and pictured at Hyde street circa 1983

40 input API (954 EQs) at City Sound (Studio C at Hyde Street) later Alpha and Omega Circa 1986

Same City sound console after repainting by Brent

Neve 8068

Neve 8068 from Vancouver, now at Capitol

2 Neve 8068 at The Plant, Sausalito.

The first half of the Harrison street console. (see the next photo)

Two sequentially numbered consoles, combined and modified by us for coast on harrison.

Helios #1 Formerly at Olympic studio 2 . Pictured here at Hyde Street circa 1981.