Neve 8078
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The Neve 8078 was the last of the "80 series" hand-wired analogue mixing 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.
Each console took several months to build using over 2,500 hours of highly skilled labour and top quality components. It would now be uneconomic to manufacture such equipment to this standard.
A limited number of these consoles were ever made and there are now only a few select studios who have 8078 consoles still working perfectly after almost 30 years. These include Long View Studios in North Brookfield, Massachusetts, Ocean Way in Nashville, Clinton Recording Studios (which houses 2 40-channel 8078 consoles) in New York City, Cello (which is now closed)in Los Angeles, and The Way Recording Studio London.
Despite the recording industry’s wholesale move to digital technology, there remains a high demand for the superior sound quality that can be achieved with analogue equipment. Original Neve modules from vintage consoles command high prices in the second hand market and few serious studios are without some Neve equipment somewhere in their racks.
