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Originally Posted by Pierre Dubois  Can anyone provide me with Libra Live user contact information please?
We have 4 AMS NEVE Libra Live consoles, which we would like to sell (or strip down for spare parts to existing users. (or sell the
complete console for an awesome low price!)
I would like to contact these users and provide them specific
information about the consoles.
Among the parts are complete MIOS racks in perfect shape.
These I/O units can be used on practically all AMS Neve consoles.
The price of the complete console is already worth the MIOS racks alone!
thx for the feedback |
Begium? RTF?
Not surprised you want rid of your embarissment. A lot want to do the same. And some have tried to sue (Global TV, Sydney) but AMS Neve folded and changed their name (2005) they dropped the PLC and called themselves a LTD company. How's that for timing? So the company ceased to exist, but started up the next day as Ams Neve "Ltd" Bet there was a lot of unhappy creditors who had to be content on either taking 20p in the pound or failing to get paid at all!
It was a time when broadcasters wanted to get into "digital". SSL in the form of the "Aysis" (Aysis Air) and Ams "neve" with Libra (Live - do you get the picture?) wanted to get onto the bandwagon too. Problem was, could they deliver? No!
When you talk to AMS Neve they are NOT "Neve". AMS Neve has been trading on the "Neve" brand for years (Rupert Neve wanted to buy the brand back, but Mark Crabtree refused - and who could blame him, having kept things going purely on a brand ideal).
The digital back end of the ams neve product is loosely based upon the Capricorn. Nothing wrong with that the "purists" will say, but technology has moved on - a long way on!
Sure, Ams Neve (and it's representatives) claim the success of the DFC - but ALL resources go to sustaining that product. It is STILL based upon past technology with the SAME backend. Difference is that more of the bugs have been sorted. Their broadcast product has been DUMPED because the BACKEND cannot sustain it!