Avon Studio A featuring the vintage Neve 8068
China - Hong Kong's leading recording facility for many years; Avon Recording Studios, was taken over by popular singing star Hins Cheung when the original owners called it a day. Hins is a well-known and successful artist who is intensely passionate about vintage analogue recording equipment. Under his management the studio has been refitted by Mode Engineering's Peter Higgs with classic analogue equipment supplied by Funky Junk and using cabling and wiring assemblies from London based VDC Trading.

Higgs explains, "I was initially introduced to Hins in 2010 via Funky Junk who have supplied equipment, provided advice and support and been instrumental in the successful outcome of Avon Studios' refit. In 2015 Hins asked me to decommission the two studio recording rooms at Avon to clear the way in preparation for a completely new installation comprising an exciting and eclectic range of equipment."

VDC technical manager Adam Jafrabadi commented, "Peter Higgs spoke to me in early January asking about getting some DL looms made for a studio he was working on. We were really busy at the time but no one likes to say no, so we fitted it in. It turned out to be over 20 DL looms of various channel counts and two patch panels, over 100 hours of wiring time which we had to fit into our already over-subscribed production schedule.

"I got to know Peter quite well over the following week as we were in constant contact with progress reports etc. He even popped in at times to see how we were getting on. Needless to say we did it and there were no problems. The guys in the wiring department were fantastic throughout and can even laugh about it now... just."

(Jim Evans)


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