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Lot Essay
Originally designed as a broadcast console, this Neve console was used at CBS prior to Nile's purchase of it in the early 90s. This console was purportedly used in CBS studio 52 where The Ed Sullivan Show was produced, and which was later to become the legendary nightclub, Studio 54, which apparently also utilized the mixing console.
It was initially re-purposed as a recording console to be used as 12 separate input/output sections, allowing the vintage Neve sound to be applied in recordings to 12 separate sources individually. The input/output modifications were performed around 1992 to give access to the individual channel outputs. Later, the console was again re-purposed to become the monitor console in the private studio of Nile Rodgers. Up to 6 stereo input sources could be combined together within the console and presented to a stereo output pair. This is much more similar to the original intended use for it in broadcast, but still required some modifications to make it work beautifully. The modifications performed at this point in 2006 were mostly to bypass all the switching and the volume controls in the master section of the console so as to allow the cleanest and least “affected” signals to appear at the stereo output. As such, pretty much the entire master section, the switches and the volume knob most notably, are not wired into the signal path at all. The quality of those switches and controls was severely compromised and thus were not desirable for the monitor path. The stereo master faders run the console stereo output with no switches or knobs in between.
It was initially re-purposed as a recording console to be used as 12 separate input/output sections, allowing the vintage Neve sound to be applied in recordings to 12 separate sources individually. The input/output modifications were performed around 1992 to give access to the individual channel outputs. Later, the console was again re-purposed to become the monitor console in the private studio of Nile Rodgers. Up to 6 stereo input sources could be combined together within the console and presented to a stereo output pair. This is much more similar to the original intended use for it in broadcast, but still required some modifications to make it work beautifully. The modifications performed at this point in 2006 were mostly to bypass all the switching and the volume controls in the master section of the console so as to allow the cleanest and least “affected” signals to appear at the stereo output. As such, pretty much the entire master section, the switches and the volume knob most notably, are not wired into the signal path at all. The quality of those switches and controls was severely compromised and thus were not desirable for the monitor path. The stereo master faders run the console stereo output with no switches or knobs in between.