Supplied in 1959, this is the Pye desk in Studio A at Anglia TV, as it was when I was with the company in the late ’60’s: Sound Supervisor Sid Denney at the 16 channel Pye valve mixer, with assistant Colin Eldred operating the EMT927 turntables during a ‘drama’ in Studio A. Acoustics was still a primitive art at that time and many rooms were still fitted out poorly for sound absorption, The photo at Anglia below, has those visually dull-looking acoustic tiles….just like the Redifussion studios when I went to Wembley. The walls in the Granada photo are lined with the ubiquitous ‘peg board’. It’s not a UK broadcaster either as there’s no ‘BBC PPM’ on the desk. The design of this desk differs from the Granada model and there also appear to be faders on the sloping upstand.
BROADCAST STUDIO WITH TAPEDECK TV
Mixers were pushed up against the studio windows like this, although this doesn’t look like a TV Sound Control Room, more likely a small sound studio, perhaps for voice-overs. Here’s a shot of a typical small 1950’s installation of a desk, speaker and picture monitor:Ī mixer, probably 12 channel, in a typical mid 1950’s room. Plugging into the middle, line row broke the normal wired signal going to the ‘apparatus’ and enabled patching it to a completely different ‘destination’. The third row was going to the ‘apparatus’, that was the channel or other part of the desk such as the monitoring, which was the destination. The line in this case was perhaps the studio wallboxes for mics (although you wouldn’t hear such a low-level signal of course on headphones) or high-level inputs from CAR for the Telecine or VT machines, or even your local ‘grams’. That is you could plug your cans into the top ‘listen row’ to check the incoming signal and it wouldn’t break the signal in the middle row, which was coming from the ‘line’. Most rows of jackfields like these Mosses and Mitchell ones were wired as ‘listen/line/apparatus’.
BROADCAST STUDIO WITH TAPEDECK PLUS
The Power Supplies and Output Amps were also in there, plus another 19″ rack carrying the Foldback and PA amplifiers, all requiring installing in a TV sound control room. The top left here has the mic amps, with the jackfields underneath and the routing jackfields on the right. The valve equipment took up so much space that each mixer required 2 or more bays to house everything else necessary for the desk’s operation.
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