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Originally Posted by Lindell "Depending on frame size and other features, the cost of the MAD Labs upgrade packages start at $65,000, offering tremendous savings to studios seeking up-to-date sonic performance." - Musgrove
No wonder they are called MAD LABS!! $65k for a mod! That is truly mad.....
Geoff; How does Neve do the summing on the V series? is it by 12 channels at a time, or is the whole console at ones?
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Indeed, lots of $$$'s. I wasn't really giving him an endorsement but rather a "credit where credit was due".
They were just producing the first V1's while I was at Neve but I didn't pay them a lot of attention as I had my own custom department. What little I do remember is that the big board that carries the busses was 8 layer and Neve had to use a company in Europe to fabricate them. The V uses the same quasi-balanced bussing system as the 51 series that offered a 20dB improvement in both crosstalk and noise compared to traditional Neve bussing.
An amusing tale about the first V's was that this was around the time that Siemens took over the company from ESE who had taken over the company from Rupert back in '73.
Anyway, the head huncho from Siemens flew over to give us a pep talk and they cleared an area in the test department for the staff to gather. They rigged up a podium and a PA system and everything was set for the big speech... which was to include complimentary comments about Neve quality.
The V was behind schedule so the testing was to continue through the lecture. Unbeknown to the testers was the fact that the wireman who fitted the huge electrolytics to the power busses that run the length of the rear of the console... had plugged every one of them into the wrong busses... reversing their polarity.
So the Siemens head climbs up the podium steps, starts his speech and then... BANG, BANG, BANG, BANG.... etc.... little pieces of silver foil shooting up in all directions like a firework display.
Not a good start!
