Neve V3 - nice desk?

[StrykeBack]

Originally Posted by madlabs-john

I have done a considerable amount of R&D on the V-series Frame. The upgrade is not $65,000. that is the price to re-cap and modify 72 modules, plus the complete power and grounding upgrade as well as the center section with added 8 channel post production monitor panel with reassign and stem-mixer. I believe Neve charged $65,000 just for the post panel ($35,000 at Mad Labs). So I guess I would be called 'mad' considering I was charging 1/2 of what Neve asked. Also for the price of the 48 ch re-cap quoted in the above thread, I would do 72 modules. That included not just the capacitor replacement, but the replacement of all but 4 op-amps, all the audio switching FETs, grounding fixes that improved the module performance from typical .0025 THD @1K +15dB to .00090 THD @1K +15dB, plus the sonic enhancements that my work is known for. When George Massenburg sat at the console he looked up and said” You have a product here” Chuck Ainley said ‘my god” but most said ‘Why didn’t Neve do this’. There is a bit of history in my work on these consoles, but I’ll save that for a new thread. Bottom line is once you give these puppies plenty of power and ground, they open up nice. Big fans of the Conway consoles included Ed Cherney, Mick guzousky, Mike Clink, Jerry Finn, Nate Kunkle and Peter Mokern. all But nate camped out in studio B for extended periods of time Also in NYC John King's Green room at Chung King was a favorite until he sold the console to Conway to replace Conway’s SSL J series. I would like to thank Strykback for his kind words about the Warner Brothers console that I tweaked a little (not the full upgrade). Also I have the custom 24x8 mixer from that desk for sale…. I am a little bit of a mad man; I put sonics and production quality before profit. People who I have done large projects for know this to be my passion and art in life.

Hey John, when I started reading your response on here about the mods I was wondering if you were the guy that did all of that work. when I was at MI, one of the instructors, Jim Morgan was just gushing about how great that vr70 sounded at Recorders (didn't know i'd end up getting to intern there) all while cursing and swearing during maintenance and repair of MI's VX80 i believe it was.

I got to do an electronics internship at the school where we just repaired the SSL and the Neve and mics and comps and I could definitely see how it could only be a labor of pure love that keeps you doing what you do because I'd probably go insane