Since i finished restoring one of my vintage Neve desks (which i documented in a thread here) i have had some much needed rest.
But now its time to start on my other Neve which is a 12 channel extension which was custom made in 1973 to go with a larger 36 channel custom desk that was ordered by Yorkshire TV.
So, this extension was made to be tagged on to the larger desk if more inputs were needed.
It have its on summing aboard with seventeen 1272 amps but there are no echo send/returns or any monitor section, nor faders for the groups etc etc.
So to make this desk more usable i have been thinking about adding another small unit that i would load up with eight Neve 1943 routing modules with faders to handle the buss routing and Echo returns.
I might also make space for a monitor section of some kind and possibly space for a compressor on each bus.
I dont want to take on another project where i am expanding an exsisting frame, its just to much work to adapt to the old and will be much easier and quicker to build something new.
But since all the summing sits in the main unit there is a problem of course with routing all the sends from the new unit to the bus feeds of the old one.
My idea is to have a internal passive summing which will then be routed to the main buss of the main unit, much like how the passive monitor/tape return panels work in the old desks, and which are often modded to go to the main busses of the desk to have more inputs at mix.
The good thing about doing it this way is that you would only have to run one cable per feed instead of multiple cables from each send in the new unit.
The main problem i see is to run the bussfeeds at all between the desks and i am not even sure if its possible to do without noise problems?
But possibly with sheilded and properly grounded cabling there would not be problem?
I did a basic drawing of what i want to do, so please hit me with any comments you might have.
And if you see this Ian i would love to hear what you have to say
But now its time to start on my other Neve which is a 12 channel extension which was custom made in 1973 to go with a larger 36 channel custom desk that was ordered by Yorkshire TV.
So, this extension was made to be tagged on to the larger desk if more inputs were needed.
It have its on summing aboard with seventeen 1272 amps but there are no echo send/returns or any monitor section, nor faders for the groups etc etc.
So to make this desk more usable i have been thinking about adding another small unit that i would load up with eight Neve 1943 routing modules with faders to handle the buss routing and Echo returns.
I might also make space for a monitor section of some kind and possibly space for a compressor on each bus.
I dont want to take on another project where i am expanding an exsisting frame, its just to much work to adapt to the old and will be much easier and quicker to build something new.
But since all the summing sits in the main unit there is a problem of course with routing all the sends from the new unit to the bus feeds of the old one.
My idea is to have a internal passive summing which will then be routed to the main buss of the main unit, much like how the passive monitor/tape return panels work in the old desks, and which are often modded to go to the main busses of the desk to have more inputs at mix.
The good thing about doing it this way is that you would only have to run one cable per feed instead of multiple cables from each send in the new unit.
The main problem i see is to run the bussfeeds at all between the desks and i am not even sure if its possible to do without noise problems?
But possibly with sheilded and properly grounded cabling there would not be problem?
I did a basic drawing of what i want to do, so please hit me with any comments you might have.
And if you see this Ian i would love to hear what you have to say