ruffrecords
Well-known member
Just joined the group so I thought I would introduce myself.
I live in the UK and I have been recording for over 40 years - I made my first professional recording in 1964 for a local duo who were entering a BBC folk contest. Since then I have specialised in demos, often on location, my equipment evolving from 15ips mono reel to reel through four and 8 track until the end of the last century. At Christmas 2000 I took early retirement and moved to the wilds of North Norfolk where I now have a studio in a 200 year old outbuilding. Since then I have moved into DAWs but still have 10 reel to reel machines. I have pretty much stopped doing demos these days because for the last four years I have been busy mastering four albums for my neighbour who is a C&W singer/songwriter.
All this is a hobby; my real job was as an electronics design engineer. I even spent three years in the 70s designing desks at Neve. And that is what brought me to this group. I designed the Neve console for the Who's Ramport studios and when I went there to discuss it with them, there in the control room was the green Helios. Even then I knew that Helios had a reputation as a musicians console (although pete Townshend seemed to prefer Neves) so I was very interested to read the Helios thread on this forum. In fact I found the forum because I was planning to build a couple of 69 mic pres for my own studio.
So that's me and why I am here. I expect to be posting to the Helios thread soon.
Cheers
Ian
I live in the UK and I have been recording for over 40 years - I made my first professional recording in 1964 for a local duo who were entering a BBC folk contest. Since then I have specialised in demos, often on location, my equipment evolving from 15ips mono reel to reel through four and 8 track until the end of the last century. At Christmas 2000 I took early retirement and moved to the wilds of North Norfolk where I now have a studio in a 200 year old outbuilding. Since then I have moved into DAWs but still have 10 reel to reel machines. I have pretty much stopped doing demos these days because for the last four years I have been busy mastering four albums for my neighbour who is a C&W singer/songwriter.
All this is a hobby; my real job was as an electronics design engineer. I even spent three years in the 70s designing desks at Neve. And that is what brought me to this group. I designed the Neve console for the Who's Ramport studios and when I went there to discuss it with them, there in the control room was the green Helios. Even then I knew that Helios had a reputation as a musicians console (although pete Townshend seemed to prefer Neves) so I was very interested to read the Helios thread on this forum. In fact I found the forum because I was planning to build a couple of 69 mic pres for my own studio.
So that's me and why I am here. I expect to be posting to the Helios thread soon.
Cheers
Ian
