Neve 8078

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The Neve 8078 was the last of the "80 series" hand-wired consoles designed and manufactured by Neve for high-end recording studios during the 1970s. Some were custom built for major studios like CBS Sony.

These consoles are considered by many experts to be the Rolls Royce of desks and are highly sought after. The classic Neve sound has featured on countless hit records by artists including Steely Dan, Nirvana, Pink Floyd, Quincy Jones, George Clinton, Chick Corea.

The console's electronics are all fully discrete (i.e. no integrated circuits) and the build quality and design are unsurpassed. Each console took several months to build using over 2500 hours of highly skilled labour and it would now be uneconomic to manufacture such equipment to this standard.

A limited number of these consoles were ever made and given the high demand for the individual original Neve modules (e.g. Mic pre's/EQ's) some have been been broken up and sold off for parts. However, there are a few select studios who have 8078 consoles still working perfectly after almost 30 years. These include Long View Studios in North Brookfield, MA, Ocean Way in Nashville, George Clinton's studio in New York, Cello in LA, and The Way Recording Studio in London.