SOUND, TECH, IMPULSES & AUDIO
There remains a special place in my heart for Sony Professional Audio. It is perhaps partly driven by the MCI JH636 desk we are slowly refurbishing bit by bit for the studio, or maybe its the tenacity Sony once had for that unknown element within audio product development. The Sony Oxford OXF-R3 is one of the marvellous epiphanies…
There aren’t many people in the music scene that haven’t heard of the name Neve. It is quintessentially British. Like a thick, welcoming, rounded English accent. The company itself, born from the ideas and direction of Rupert Neve, has quite humble beginnings starting in a little Essex town east of London in 1961. From there…
The late 1970s and early 1980s are renowned for a lot of great things. The Commodore 64 personal computer. The Keytar. Midi. Unfortunately plastic isn’t one of those things, as any MCI console owner will know. As the story goes, MCI approached Penny & Giles about VCA taper faders for the JH-50 automation system. P&G expressed…