Gallery

  • IMG 0225 2012 Mic-Pre\EQ under construction
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  • jj071 'A Range desk at Trident.
  • jj070 The 'standard' System 12 desk. 4 busses and patch panel above the output units.
  • jj072 A large Syetem 12 with self-contained patch panel.
  • jj074 System 12 Output Unit. The3.5mm patch panel at the top of the uniy. All outputs were un-balanced.
  • jj076 Article about the 'A Range installed in Sunset Sound in Hollywood. Page 1 of 2.
  • jj077 Article about the 'A Range installed in Sunset Sound in Hollywood. Page 2 of 2.
  • jj052 System 12 Input Unit. The mic transformer is in the top left corner. All outputs were un-balanced.
  • jj053 1968 The foreground unit factory in the new industrial estate in Mildenhall Suffolk.
  • jj054 'A' Range output logic.
  • jj055 'A' Range under construction in the Mildenhall factory.
  • jj060 16 track, System 12 in Jamaica.
  • jj067 Cat Stevens at Dynamic Studios Jamaica.
  • jj068 Wireing up the bacl plane of a System 'A'
  • jj069 HD version of the first 'A' Range console that we sold to De Lane Lea in Kingsway London.
  • jj057 Princess Margaret opens De Lane Lea's Wembly studio complex
  • jj062 De Lane Lea's Wembly 5 studio complex under construction.
  • jj063 De Lane Lea's Wembly 5 studio complex under construction.
  • jj066 De Lane Lea's Wembly 5 studio complex under construction.
  • jj065 De Lane Lea's Wembly 5 studio complex under construction.
  • jj061 De Lane Lea's Wembly 5 studio complex under construction.
  • jj059 De Lane Lea's Wembly 5 studio complex under construction, looking north. You get some idea of the scale by the two people in the foreground.
  • jj058 De Lane Lea's Wembly 5 studio complex under construction.
  • 189208 439701582738269 1514261420 n Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and Roy Thomas Baker mix Love In Vain and Little Queenie on a Sound Techniques A Range console in the Trident remix room back in 1970. Also, Albert Maysles getting in the way (!) Captured from the Gimme Shelter movie by Luke Pacholski. Many thanks, Luke!
  • 225815 439700652738362 263698298 n Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and Roy Thomas Baker mix Love In Vain and Little Queenie on a Sound Techniques A Range console in the Trident remix room. Also, Albert Maysles getting in the way (!) Captured from the Gimme Shelter movie by Luke Pacholski. Many thanks, Luke!
  • 67119 439701099404984 596118232 n Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and Roy Thomas Baker mix Love In Vain and Little Queenie on a Sound Techniques A Range console in the Trident remix room. Also, Albert Maysles getting in the way (!) Captured from the Gimme Shelter movie by Luke Pacholski. Many thanks, Luke!
  • 10574 439700529405041 1676411995 n Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and Roy Thomas Baker mix Love In Vain and Little Queenie on a Sound Techniques A Range console in the Trident remix room. Also, Albert Maysles getting in the way (!) Captured from the Gimme Shelter movie by Luke Pacholski. Many thanks, Luke!
  • 406404 439701132738314 390951202 n Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and Roy Thomas Baker mix Love In Vain and Little Queenie on a Sound Techniques A Range console in the Trident remix room. Also, Albert Maysles getting in the way (!) Captured from the Gimme Shelter movie by Luke Pacholski. Many thanks, Luke!
  • 601596 439701209404973 1758441364 n Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and Roy Thomas Baker mix Love In Vain and Little Queenie on a Sound Techniques A Range console in the Trident remix room. Also, Albert Maysles getting in the way (!) Captured from the Gimme Shelter movie by Luke Pacholski. Many thanks, Luke!
  • 3836 439701239404970 1534212568 n Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and Roy Thomas Baker mix Love In Vain and Little Queenie on a Sound Techniques A Range console in the Trident remix room. Also, Albert Maysles getting in the way (!) Captured from the Gimme Shelter movie by Luke Pacholski. Many thanks, Luke!
  • 404611 439701419404952 1092870427 n Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and Roy Thomas Baker mix Love In Vain and Little Queenie on a Sound Techniques A Range console in the Trident remix room. Also, Albert Maysles getting in the way (!) Captured from the Gimme Shelter movie by Luke Pacholski. Many thanks, Luke!
  • 320460 439701259404968 918315071 n Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and Roy Thomas Baker mix Love In Vain and Little Queenie on a Sound Techniques A Range console in the Trident remix room. Also, Albert Maysles getting in the way (!) Captured from the Gimme Shelter movie by Luke Pacholski. Many thanks, Luke!
  • Westwing An 'artistic view' of the west wing of our house in West Norfolk, UK. Apart from being home to my wife, the cat (Ziggy - cos he's got different coloured eyes) the house also contains three workshops, where we're building the new MicPre/EQs, but also our TV studio - with De Lane Lea's ex Dean Street console.
  • m2 I initially built what is now just a studio into a TV and film dubbing suite. You can see the audio section in the foreground. In front of that is vision control and a small studio over in the top right.
  • !vision This is the vision area of the dubbing suite.
  • Audio This is the audio area of the dubbing suite. It contailed an Akai 16 track DAW, a Yamaha OR2. I did design and bulld the audio/video monitoring unit - the control panel of which os shown just in front of the lower set of PPMs.
  • Chelsea HD JW Another picture of Harry Davis, foreground, and John Wood in Chelsea in 1965.
  • Chelsea Mic amp A better photo of the prototype mic/line amp from early 1965. The PCB was home made in my kitchen!!
  • Chelsea mixer1 1965 Chelsea's first desk.
  • Chelsea mixer2 1965. Chelsea's first desk. In the background you can see the Ampex 4 track deck, I built the amplifiers. Underneath the fantastic 'green' EMI limiter - fantastic on close miced piano!
  • Chelsea tape 1965. On the left, a two track Ampex deck and a mono Ampex desk. Note the 'home made' amplifiers underneath. They were housed in ex BBC transcription turntable consoles. (We were going to fill in the holes where there used to be a control panel for the turntable amplifiers - but never got round to it!
  • Clock The digital stop clock. We sold abought 80 of these. They were rarely used to time records. Engineers used to gamble on these instead!
  • System 12 System 12 again.
  • DSCF0328 'A' Range modules from De Lane Lea's Dean Street desk 'as found'!
  • DSCF0332 1967 'A' Range EQ section. Same circuit as we're now using in our new Mic-Pre/EQ for 2012
  • DSCF0336 De Lane Lea's Dean Street 'A' Range desk after we bought it back from the (very nice!) postman in Swindon
  • EH Flage The core company's head office in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk.
  • FBStudios 1 The De Lane Lea Dean Street desk in use. (Before the postman bought it)
  • gri 1971 Our first computer, a 'mini computer'. We had to write everything ourselves - including the operation system. It was then used for stock control and parts explosion.
  • lev1 1963 Just to remind you of me at Levy's (Oriole Records) when I was young!
  • mild 1970 A better picture of our 'Head Office'. It's pretty - yes?
  • recp Philida (left) and Anna our two receptionists. (Anna's the girl in the Syatem 12 beach pictures)
  • sys12b System 12 again. (I don't know why the knobs on the right have gone pink!)
  • sys12ip System 12 Input unit.
  • sys12jb System 12 3.5mm patch panel.
  • Tridenta Trident Studio
  • card1 1966 The original mic/line amp PCB.
  • ad 1965 The advert in Kemp's Directory
  • Desk1 The first 'A' Ranger ever! Sold to a customer before we built the desk for Chelsea.
  • ChelseaDesk9 1973 Mri-Pre/EQ from the last desk we made. Now in Paris.
  • IMG 0201 2012 1kHz Square wave at 0dB output. (After 3 transformers!)
  • TOPboost3K 2012 HI boost @ 3KhZ
  • TOPcut 2012 Lo cut curves
  • Merryfield035 Norfolk studio today
  • Merryfield045 1972 Last desk we made named "The Chelsea Desk"
  • Merryfield048 1972 Last desk we made named "The Chelsea Desk" (Now working in Paris)
  • Merryfield044 Broadvast version of System 24
  • img036 Princess Margaret opens De Lane Lea's Wembly studio complex
  • img037 Princess Margaret opens De Lane Lea's Wembly studio complex- 2
  • img038 Princess Margaret opens De Lane Lea's Wembly studio complex with Dave Siddle
  • img025 De Lane Lea Wembley - party after opening by Princess Margaret
  • img044 De Lane Lea Wembley plaque
  • Merryfield046 Reed relay switching board
  • Merryfield052 Relay switching logic
  • Merryfield011 One of the 5 control rooms at De Lane Lea Wembley
  • Merryfield013 De Lane Lea Wembley
  • img039 Tape machine electronics
  • img042 De Lanr Lea Wembley - relay switching board
  • img024 De Lane Lea Wembly - logic board
  • Merryfield018 'A' Range logic switching control board
  • Merryfield019 De Lane Lea Wembly. Tape machine card 1
  • Merryfield020 De Lane Lea Wembly. Tape machine card 2
  • Merryfield033 De Lane Lea Wembley - computer controlled switching logic
  • Merryfield001 First factory in Mildenhall, Suffolk
  • img028 First factory in Mildenhall, Suffolk
  • img030 1968 Suffolk factory
  • Merryfield063 First factory in Mildenhall, Suffolk
  • Merryfield062 First factory in Mildenhall, Suffolk
  • img017 Electra's 'A' Range Mic/EQ
  • img005 Holywood - Sunset Sound
  • img003 System 12 - 8 bus mounted in a Conran desk!
  • img018 'Head Office' Mildenhall Suffolk - just round the corner from the factory
  • img019 Our stock control computer system - 1972
  • img020 Our 'Dumb' stock control computer terminal - 1970
  • img022 System 12 - rear
  • img023 System 12 - Input unit
  • img031 System 12
  • img032 'A' Range under construction
  • img033 System 12 output/monitor unit with built in 3.5mm 'jack bay'!
  • img034 System 12
  • img035 "I don't know who he is!"
  • img040 Trident's second 'A' Range desk
  • Merryfield002 Trident
  • Merryfield003 Our 'house band'. Store manager, Ray, on drums!
  • Merryfield004 1970's Reception team
  • Merryfield005 DELETE
  • Merryfield006 System 12
  • Merryfield007 System 12 - APRS exhibition
  • Merryfield008 System 12
  • Merryfield009 Photo 'crew' on the beach at Aldburgh - picture for our first Ad in Studio Sound Magazine
  • Merryfield010 16 output System 12 at the APRS exhibition
  • Merryfield012 System 12 output and monitor and jack bay
  • Merryfield014 System 12 'on the beach'
  • Merryfield015 DUNNO
  • Merryfield016 System 12 deska at APRS exhibition
  • Merryfield017 DUNNO
  • Merryfield021 NO RELEVENT
  • Merryfield022 Head Office
  • Merryfield023 Another System 12 advert
  • Merryfield024 70's 'dumb' computer terminal
  • Merryfield025 Eric at the stock control terminal in the Suffolk factory's stores
  • Merryfield030 Another System 12 advert
  • Merryfield031 Another System 12 advert
  • Merryfield032 System 12 input unit
  • Merryfield034 System 12 portable version
  • Merryfield037 System 12 on the beach
  • Merryfield038 System 24
  • Merryfield039 The 'famous' On the Beach advert in Studio Sound
  • Merryfield041 System 12
  • Merryfield042 System 12
  • Merryfield055 DELETE?
  • Merryfield051 System 12
  • Merryfield054 The 'famous' stop clock for timing tracks - but used for gambling in the middle of the night!
  • Merryfield067 Gerry wiring a desk!
  • Merryfield068 Brian and Gerry wiring a System 12 desk
  • Merryfield069 Gerry
  • Merryfield070 Stores manager, Ray, updating manual stock lists - before we computerised stock control
  • Merryfield071 Eric punching holes in a front panel
  • img043 'A' Range EQ unit
  • img011 'A' Range at De Lane Lea Kingsway
  • IMG 'A' Range Output Logic (Bus output routing)
  • img004 'A' Range at Trident Studios
  • img007 Trident's first 'A' Range
  • img009 Trident's first 'A' Range
  • img006 WRONG WAY ROUND!
  • img012 'A' Range mixdown unit
  • img014 'A' Range Fold Back
  • img021 'A' Range Monitor unit
  • img013 'A' Range cues
  • img026 1965 - Chelsea's first desk
  • img027 1064 - prototype of Chelsea's desk