Kevin Dippold (Coldwater engineer), Billy Corgan, & Kerry Brown in front of the Neve 5088

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32-input discrete analog mixer, installed in Kerry's Coldwater Studio. He's got serial number 13- Lucky! It was first used to mix "If All Goes Wrong", which won a Cinema Audio Society Award for outstanding DVD original programming. It was used to re-mix Bullet and 1979 for Guitar Hero, and has also been used to mix FOL, the 20th Anniversary Tour shows (downloadable at livesmashingpumpkins.com), and numerous other projects since.
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From an article on Kerry's studio on the Neve site:

The 5088 at Coldwater Studio is outfitted with Rupert Neve Designs Portico 5033 five-band EQ modules on every input channel, with five Portico 5043 stereo compressors in the master section, four on the groups and one on the main stereo output. The console is also configured with two 5014 stereo field editors and a pair of dual-channel 5042 "True Tape" processors. "Sonically, the board sounds fantastic," says Brown, adding, "We used the tape simulation with the drums and bass. They added a little bit of warmth to the digital signals that we had coming from Pro Tools."