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20 mentions in 14 episodes.

A. G. Cook

1:33:11 · Neve preamp clone · named · medium confidence
“I'll just have a Neve clone preamp and it's pretty dry.”
A Neve-style clone preamp is the only hardware in his lazy but effective vocal chain.

Air

6:54 · Neve console · named · medium confidence
“Is it a Neve or SSL? But it was even bigger than that.”
Recalling mixing Moon Safari's eight tracks on a giant automated console he describes as bigger than a Neve or SSL.

Bob Vylan

55:49 · Neve console · named · medium confidence
“They've got a one-of-a-kind Neve distortion unit there... They've got an old Neve 80 series desk there, which is incredible”
At Marshall Studios drums were run through a one-off Neve distortion unit built by the engineer who restored their Neve 80 series desk.

Bombay Bicycle Club

40:36 · Neve console · named · high confidence
“It's 2 old Neves and then glued them together somehow. So he's got, I think, the biggest Neve in the world. It sounds really, really cool too.”
The band admire Paul Epworth's two joined Neve consoles at his Crouch End church studio, used for the orchestral Heaven session.
48:23 · Neve console · named · high confidence
“Did you have that plopped on like the 50-channel Neve? The rarest Neve channel in the world.”
Joke about balancing a laptop on Epworth's huge Neve desk while recording the demo that became the album's opening track.

Clean Bandit

17:38 · Neve console · named · medium confidence
“a U87 going into a Neve, then going into an 1176”
Neve preamp/console cited as the second stage of Mark Ralph's vocal chain for Symphony.
1:00:15 · 1073 · named · high confidence
“CL-1B and a Neve preamp, 1073, so I know that this all kind of sounds pretty good.”
A Neve 1073 preamp is Jack's known-good front end for tracking vocals quickly during writing sessions.

Djo

54:25 · Neve console · named · medium confidence
“This is also the board that they had at the studio… Not sure what the Neve is, but had a lot of color in it already.”
The Neve desk at Jack Antonoff's LA studio coloured the 'Charlie's Garden' drum tracks at capture.

EJT

1:39:39 · 1073 · named · high confidence
“I've got a 1073 clone preamp that I put through everything, and it just sounds so smooth”
Asked for her essential piece of kit, she picks a Neve 1073 clone preamp used on every single thing she recorded for the album.

Fall Out Boy

1:18:55 · Neve preamp · named · medium confidence
“like some kind of Neve pre and I think an LA-2A”
A Neve preamp sits in Patrick's go-to vocal chain alongside the U 47, 1176 and LA-2A.
2:05:34 · Neve console · named · high confidence
“A lot of what I use is, I have a Neve console, a small Neve console that we use for recording, and some vintage mics.”
Neil's home studio is built around a small Neve console plus vintage microphones, used for guitars and vocals on the album.

Foo Fighters

3:12 · Neve BCM-10 · named · high confidence
“We do have this beautiful old Neve BCM-10 sidecar. It was gorgeous, and we've had it for 25, 26 years”
The band's long-owned Neve BCM-10 sidecar is described as a centrepiece of their home setup, used on most Foo Fighters albums.
32:47 · Neve console · named · medium confidence
“He was working on an automated Neve at a studio in Los Angeles, and every time the song got to the big explosive part, the board would shut down”
Story about mixer Rich Costey pushing an automated Neve console into total red and taping over the meters.

Hayley Williams

46:59 · 1073 · named · high confidence
“It's like a 500 series 1170, or sorry, 1073, and then into an 1176.”
The vocal chain ran the U 67 through a 500-series Neve 1073-style preamp.

Lorde

47:49 · Neve 1073 · named · high confidence
“this was just SM7 through a 1073, the little ad-libs. But this whole song is just a U47, 1073 preamp”
The 1073 preamp is the standard front end for Lorde's vocals across the album.

Rudimental

38:29 · Neve preamp · named · high confidence
“it's sort of the Neve preamp, either a Manley Ref C or Vox, which is modeled on the 251”
A Neve preamp is the front end of Rudimental's studio vocal chain.

Sam Gellaitry

22:14 · 1073 · named · high confidence
“Going into a Neve 1073... takes this £100 mic and I can put the analog saturation and EQ”
SM58 runs into a Neve 1073 where Sam cuts low end and boosts a lot of high end for an airy vocal.

St. Vincent

2:27 · Neve console · named · high confidence
“And a Neve console similar to the one that is in the other room here.”
The control room at her own studio, Compound Fracture, is built around a Neve console.
33:41 · Neve console · named · high confidence
“The LOMO into the, through my Neve desk”
Vocals from the LOMO mic were tracked through the preamps of her own Neve console.
1:06:21 · Neve console · named · high confidence
“I bought a Neve console to make this record... it's eighteen channels”
She bought an 18-channel Neve console specifically for All Born Screaming, preferring tactile mixing over working on a laptop.