I didn't know till watching this that Rupert Neve started and built Focusrite..What a genius he was..Rest In Peace

Wow, quite a bit of nostalgia for me here. I helped to commission console number 9 at Beartracks with Rob Jenkins, in I think, February "94. Dredging the memory banks here. I do remember lots of deep snow, and Rob and I sitting in an Italian restaurant after a long days work somewhere in upstate New York on Valentines day - everyone else was having a romantic evening with roses on the table! Nice to see the guys at SST are keeping number 9 going as a hybrid of 2 consoles after the flood wrecked it. The sort of madness I admire. Watching this video makes me feel like I was part of something very significant, and it's good to see people still care so much about those old consoles. I know in my time at Focusrite we were definitely striving to do something different and better "the way it should be done". Perhaps sadly - as far as consoles are concerned anyway, it was near the end of an era. I'm still an analogue guy through and through tho. I took a marker pen and left a message on the console frame back at Beartracks for anyone who took it apart in future to see, something like "Commissioned by John Emmerson and Rob Jenkins February 1994", I wonder if that message survived. John

This doco has given me another level of appreciation for my Focusrite equipment, thanks Focusrite!

What a wonderful documentation of a the Rupert Neve/Focusrite heritage and why it is so important to preserve for future generations to come to love and appreciate. RIP Rupert Neve. We love you.

Oceanway’s Focusrite #4 was ‘my console’ too, from 1994 to 97. It was the first large format console I have worked on, and it was love at first sight. I just loved the bus routing and design! So cool to see this video, a blast from my past for sure!

Got this channel strip from Plugin Alliance. Love this documentary.

love the Spanish Guy that saved all his money up from engineering and snagged one second hand, only to put it in his house. that's amazing well done that man. I'm Jealous.

I fortunately had the opportunity to work a lot with JJP and Alan Sides on console #4 at Ocean Way in Hollywood CA on my first solo record (Leroy) for Hollywood Records. I was alway blown away by the sound that console produced. JJP had a lot to do with it as well! Those were great times!!! After seeing this doc I feel like I've been a part of something really special. Thanks for making and sharing this doc!

So honoured to be a part of it! Well done to all involved!

Loved this story of these old Focusrite consoles…The ISA-110 vocal preamp, and equalizer epic… ☮🔥

I absolutely love the passion in this documentary . That alone will make me buy some focusrite gears

I'm amazed by the resurrection of the flooded one. And deeply thankful to Rupert Neve for what he'd done.

Love the focusrite sound for recording! I produced an album at console number 2 when it was at Paramount studios in .LA. A complete wonderful experience! Thanks for sharing all this history. Great video👍 Lot’s of great memories. Mike Rosario

As a budding engineer and overall gear nut I really enjoyed this doc. I respect the people that put the work into maintaining/repairing these consoles and I feel it is definitely not in vain. At the end of the day it is all about the sound and striving to make the best impression on our listeners. Analog is definitely better for archiving and playback on high fidelity systems. I am now planning on purchasing a Focusrite ISA430 MK II producer pack channel strip, lol. If only Focusrite could make a stereo version of the producer pack for home studio types that can't afford to buy two channel strips. I guess I'll have to tell my mono stems to fall in line!

Great doc. We lost our house in Long Beach to hurricane Sandy. I'm actually more saddened to hear about the damage to the console at SST Studios. God Bless em for restoring it!

shocker. another set of boards that are damn near perfect and who's fingers are all over them? Rupert Neve. Man is a damn genius.

I'm a small (but proud) shareholder in Focusrite (LON:TUNE). Watching this makes me happy.

Thanks Focusrite for this wonderful and well made documentary. Also, thanks for keeping quality audio alive.

Wow! I had no idea about the history of this company when I bought my Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 interface for doing my podcast! I love the way it works!

Masashi Yanagisawa at Studio Jive was so soft spoken and it was so calming... that need to make him a plug in! Lol

I think this is my third(?) time watching this doc, and I'm here this time bc of the ISA channel strip plugin I just got last week. I don't remember the last time I was so excited about a plugin! I've only had the chance to use it on one little project so far as I'm sort of between living arrangements again, but I can already tell it's going to be my new go-to channel strip! I've got others I love for various things, but I can just tell, even in plugin form, the ISA sounds good on *EVERYTHING*. Congrats and thank you to Focusrite (and Brainworx), and keep up the great work!

Really enjoyed that - great documentary, never knew they only made 10 of these.

It is a beautiful documentary with very nice details. Analog still gives a better sound than digital.

I wish I could mix on this big Old beast of a console

Sound recording both art and science! This is a mind blowing, must watch, documentary of when synergy between the two! Thanks for sharing this bit of history!

Great video! This is amazing. The fact that engineers, people, specialists, and others are capable to design and build such an enormous, complicated desk. Deep respect for al those people who build it, designed it, ownded it recorded with it and mainitained it, and still do.

What a legendary console blown away I like classic music equipment but this is something else

All I can say is wow and I wish to one day hear the sounds flowing through that console.

Brought tears of joy and then tears of pain, then joy again. Thank you!

This was beautiful! . These consoles are a work of art and in the future will probably be in museums!!! Beautiful and emotional story!

Great documentary. Happy that Focusrite put this together for us to learn from.

gotta love the Spanish guy, tracking a single acoustic guitar with the Focusrite crammed into a space the size of my bathroom...looks impressive though

This is great. Thank you all for your time, and dedication, to share this wonderful video with us all. I wish this documentary was available for download.

Had no idea Focusrites root's were so deep.

Much love for the crew that made this video and the focusrite dev team. Something this special should have a special history and a great story; thanks for telling it!!

Wow! The most unexpected, and worthwhile documentaries I've seen. Thank you.

I have to admid this is the best documentary/storytelling I have ever seen about a high end audio product. Anmazingly well done guys! Make some more of this very educatting and informing studio stuff reports.

This was an awesome video!!! Rupert was involved in a lot of things. I'm very happy with my Clarett 8pre purchase. Just have to get all the right components so my computer will run it. I felt this video. Loved the journey. Focusrite I'm officially a fan and user. First it was Chris and Tom Lord-alge using Big Red Focusrite on their Mix bus that made me a fan. But then to find out in this video Mr. Rupert Neve was involved. Its a no brainer for me. I'm all in.

Such a powerful story. It really touched my heart. Especially the Sandy story and the devastation in Hoboken, etc. I remember that time well. I learned alot from this. Thank you.

This made me very, very happy. Thank you so much for putting this together!

9:48 Hugh and Wauter's description of subtly and the analytics of emotion were beautiful ... and TRUE. "It's what you feel, what you dream maybe... what you want to hear." I just watched a Rupert Neve interview when he said the same thing about EQ distortion and harmonics. Specs aside, what you hear is what's most important, even when in contrast of specs. I cant believe there's a seperate PSU for each bucket of 8 channels! Sheesh what a beast.

so much luv for recording. truly and art form.

Many of us simply do not understand what people talk about when they mention noise floor, or open high end, today when everything sounds transparent and noise free it is difficult to appreciate this.

I'm currently in the journey into building my own sound and studio. I'm glad you made this KZfaq channel and video. Thank you. I use your Scarlett Solo currently and am looking to upgrade to either an audio mixer or audio recorder as you keep motioning here in this video.

What a great docu! Thoroughly enjoyed it. Many thanks to the makers and poster.

This is actually one of the best videos I ever saw on KZfaq. Thank you.

An incredible story, truly glad you guys are telling it.

Damn. RIP #9. Hope you make it through surgery 😇😇😇

Well, we can hug our little Scarletts and still feel proud! Excellent filming of an audio legend.

What a brilliant documentary! Right I'm going to re-mix my recordings with a totally new perspective on things. Thank you!

Beautiful documentary. Man, I never thought watching the part about the water damaged Focusrite console🖤🖤🖤

This is just an amazing documentary. The story literally had my emotions going hahaha. Thanks for this!

This is epic. Very well put together, So awesome to be a part of it!

Great job Chris! Super excited to see myself in this! Great history of a great console!

What a brilliant piece of documentary making.

I also met Rupert Neve, something I will always regret personally and professionally. Working in Singapore as a young man, I was asked if I wanted to join a dinner with some business associates of Rupert, stupidly I said no, because I was scheduled to teach my regular class this evening. I should have said YES, of course, and then told my students about it!

This video was great. Takes me back. Miss consoles like that. I finally went digital when I got tired of fixing analog parts.

Oh God! It was an amazing video where I could see huge consoles...where brilliant people worked.

Really enjoyed watching this. Thanks for posting!

Always good to watch this again. A story well worth documenting. I did a lot a writing when digital started, but I believe that as good as the revolution is, an analogue desk in the mix makes things a whole lot better.

Great job. Being from NJ, the SST story really weighs heavy for me... wishing all the best to them bringing that console back.

A must watch for any Audio Engineer!

this is brilliant, absolutely fantastic to watch, gives inspiration to young *future* engineers!

Makes me happy to be a focusrite user. Good sounds.

Seeing the flooded console and live room after the storm almost made me cry

This WAS the pinnacle of analog consoles. Did Master Rock ever receive their console?

Amazing job on this doco!!

I love this Console! I have the ISA 430MKII it's my favorite channel strip

This is truly amazing guys. Great story!

Excellent documentary, just beautiful stuff.

This Video Never Gets Old.

Very nice! I have some focusrite gear in my home studio and I love them. The voicemaster pro platinium and saffire pro 14.

This is the third time I've watched this great job making this film.

Very well made documentary. Thank you for that.

I was desperately lookin for this video a few months ago thrn stumbled back across it today!

A great & truly inspiring documentary...

may i just say your customer service guys are awesome.. :) lifetime member.

Really Enjoyed watching this documentary! Very well done!!

i feel happy about my little Scarlett 2i4

Thanks for sharing this - what a desk!

Reminds me of the story of the Bugatti EB110 or the Jaguar XJ220. A labor of love that was somehow both ahead of its time and behind the times.

Very high quality video, well done 👍🏻

Air Montserrat had the first Focusrite sub-mixer made up of 110's installed in their new SSL desk(1986), I went down to Air London with Rupert, Betty Watts, and Rupert's son Jonathan, Rupert and Betty with the Air engineers fired it up checking everything was fine before shipping to Montserrat. The Neve console that was in there, probably the greatest console ever built got bought by A&M in LA . You can see the Neve Air Montserrat console in the video for Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic by the Police.

Thank you for sharing this story!!! Focusrite... Great Job!!!

I love this. Great history of the focusrite. Great passion.

Outstanding!!! Amazing history.

@37:44 Moog Voyager rack sighting! We've got the keyboard. Love it. My favorite synth of all time. Monster tones!

Unreal - how the absolute pinnacle of recording desk technology could rise so high and then fall so far… Consoles in storage garages?? Dear lord……

A very cool video. Thanks for making it!

Fantastic production. I cried at the flood.

I love this story thank you for the history

Brilliant to watch. i just have so much of respect now for the Focusrite Channel Strip plugin I have. It simply must be the only channel strip I will use.

Love that Focusrite Console that CLA is using in mixing at the end.

I enjoyed this, being a sound buff myself. But I find it quite funny that the film doesn't seem to have been mixed at all. The radio mics are not filtered to sound good or natural and the sound clips are not faded in or out very beautifully, the sound suddenly poops in, kind of. Just saying concerning the topic of what I just watched...

Great video! Thanks for sharing! I had the pleasure of working on the one at Music Mill in Nashville on a few records. Love at first sight and hear! I wonder where she went. In 2016 I had a long lay over in Madrid. Wish I had known it was nearby. I would have loved to see it and meet the new owner! I have an ISA 220 channel strip I love and recently purchase the Focusrite plugin to use in PT. And I have a Scarlett 414 for use with my macbook.

I’ve been using this isa110 for a decade now. When I got my first decent check from music it’s the first thing I bought, period!

Fantastic documentary!

What a Lucky "barn find"! Wow... amazing.

I love my plugin of this, would be a dream to actually touch this beast. Amazing doc! :)

A lesson to us all, put your good shit on the second floor.