DaviScenes ..."Archives" ...
Turning back to the days of B&W....
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Hayne and DS24-16-2 |
"OUT-STANDING IN HIS FIELD?
HOW ABOUT ....OUT-SITTING IN HIS YARD?
The above photo was taken at the Davis residence just prior
to delivering our first, (our first for the outside marketplace) 24-16-2, in-line recording
console to its new location in Hackensack, New Jersey.
This board was delivered and installed
by our "field hands" (Hayne and one assistant in those days)!
It had taken one year and eight months to complete (subsequent models were assembled
in about half that time, or less).
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New York, 1982 |
And, speaking of "field hands & field trips"
...this was our complete installation at Master Productions,
New York, NY, in 1982.
The job went very well (the owner -pictured- seems happy enough) ...
in spite of the need for the Malox bottle notable in the lower left of the photo!
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Earthquake-N.Augusta |
This custom console/control center
originally came from a well-known studio location in Nashville ...
by way of an equally well-known guitar player/producer's home studio.
The original top panels and circuitry had been damaged and the current
owner asked us to remove them
and custom fit one of our console top panels,
with circuitry, into the old housing. This was the result.
We even managed to refurbish the old, original Cinema(TM) faders and reinstate
them with new escutcheons.
This console was in use at Earthquake Studios for
almost a decade, was NEVER turned off, and NEVER caused a moment's downtime!
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Home Grown |
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Early On |
These were some of our VERY early attempts
at building pro audio equipment for other
folks besides ourselves!
Above, is an early
prototype of one of our first compressor designs ...
crude rack-mount package but very
notable performer.
To the left is one of our first radio production consoles pictured within the rich garden
of one John W. Davis
which was located immediately beside our studio/workshop in those days.
It was appropriate since this was going to an Iowa client ...
and we heard they had
corn there also!
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Mixer in a Haystack |
And, speaking of farm-country ...
this custom portable mini-mixer design was as rare as the proverbial
needle ...
SO ...............................
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Hands-On Experience |
Here was Hayne, during one of
those fourteen hour workdays ...
getting more of that "hands-on experience"
at the workbench.
Note the tradition of employing a music stand, borrowed from the
studio across the hallway
for the "examining room", to support schematics
and notes.
( It is, after all, ALWAYS about the MUSIC! )
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Head First |
This combo mixer/power "head"amp was one of the many custom pieces
commissioned by visiting session players during the early eighties.
This one was for a touring bass player and offered many unique features
including extensive equalization optimized for each individual bass string!
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MIX 106- July 10, 1989 |
Starting in 1988, after an eight- year ongoing struggle, which included Washington hearings ...
and hassles such as rule changes in mid-stream by the "beloved" FCC,
Hayne Davis built his hometown's first FM station
( quite literally ...
everything from complete rennovation of a downtown building ...
to all wiring and equipment installation ...
to construction of a transmitter and tower site ...
all the way through to writing and producing the station's programming/production materials )
all within the alloted year's time from the grant of the construction permit.
Naturally, the on-air console
was custom made by DaviSound.
(As were the production and news consoles.)
Pictured beside it is charter air personality Carole Riser (Newberry Observer Photo).
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Hayne in MIX 106 Lobby - November, 1989 |
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"Roots"
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RADIO ROOTS ! |
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MUGSHOT |
An "awful" snapshot (by the station manager)
which was run in nearby Clinton, S.C.'s local newspaper
to announce
the forthcoming "Morning Madness" radio show in May of 1971.
It was a page ad featuring all of the "HD" characters including ...
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Auto Hudson" the engineer, "Storm Drain" the weatherman, "
Warm Front" the weathergirl, "Betty Crock" the home economist ...
"Ugh"
the super-wonder-Indian, and the "Award Winning HD Dancing Girls" ("radio's only
TOPLESS act").
Wanting to stay active in live, daily radio ...
Hayne did the morning show at
WPCC from 6:00 until 9:00 each morning from 1971 through 1976 ...
and commuted back to
Newberry each day to begin a full day's work for worldwide radio clients at
Mother Cleo Productions.
...And, Speaking of "Awful Snapshots".....
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Chet Atkins - Hayne Davis |
-1970-
One is a legendary producer/musician, one is only an aspiring beginner ...
(though, obviously, not an apprentice at the dinner table during that time period!) -
guess which is which!
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Jingle All The Way! |
From 1970 through the mid eighties ...
MCP DaviSound turned out assorted radio productions
on a daily basis, sometimes doing sessions round the clock!
Here is an actual jingle session,
circa 1974, attended and documented by a reporter.
Pictured , left to right, are transplanted
Floridian singers (Newberry College music students)
Dean Yates, Carole and Gary Griffith and
session producer, Hayne Davis.
Note the infamous drinking cups on the studio ceiling ...
an old technique utilized over the vocal staging area
to help create the acoustical illusion
of a heightened ceiling (old newspaper photo).
And ... twelve years later ...another jingle session and another reporter!
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Elvis Who?
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Waaayyy Back When ...
This was Hayne Davis & The Citations ...
performing for Friday morning assembly
program at Newberry High School, 1965.
It was the first time that rock & roll had ever
been performed from the "hallowed" auditorium stage during school hours...
( a very liberal move by conservative Principal J. V. Kneece)
and it had them, literally, dancing in
the aisles...
(and not just students but a couple of teachers as well!).
[1965 Oracle (yearbook) photo]
AND ... Even FURTHER back .....
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The Flys-1963 |
This was the VERY beginning as The Flys ...
(had to be one of the first parodies of the Beatles as this
was before they were well known in America)
warm up for a performance
to kick off the grand
opening of
Plato's Sunset Restaurant in 1963.
Left to right: Tommy Boland, Gene Morehead, Durrett Lipscomb,
Hayne Davis, Mike Driggers
