Yamaha | Rupert Neve Designs Reflectone Collaboration

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Yamaha collaborated with Rupert Neve Designs to develop custom transformers for their products, which led to Yamaha's interest in pickup design. They worked with the pickup designer to create and refine new pickup designs, with Yamaha extensively analyzing and testing the samples to ensure they met their standards. The collaboration resulted in Yamaha being able to manufacture the pickups with exact precision and repeatability.

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Yamaha and Rupert Neve Designs collaborated on modeling products and hardware designs.

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Yamaha engineers visited Rupert Neve Designs to talk about utilizing a transformer developed by Rupert Neve in a new product.

Rupert Neve sent a set of pickups and hardware equipment to Yamaha engineers as a gift.

Yamaha spent half a year on the formula for winding samples that Rupert Neve had already developed.

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Yamaha was very involved in the analysis and specific details of new pickup designs.

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It took at least a year and a half to develop the new designs.

Yamaha provided specific analysis and feedback on every detail of the samples sent to them.

Yamaha requested multiple iterations to fine-tune the pickup designs.

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Yamaha was heavily involved in analyzing and perfecting the pickup designs.

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Yamaha analyzed the magnet samples and the exact compound used in them.

They also analyzed the wax formulation to ensure it matched the winding capacitance.

Yamaha had expertise in the manufacturing process to make the pickup design formula repeatable.

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Yamaha's collaboration with Rupert Neve Designs was a result of their expertise in manufacturing and their ability to make the pickup design formula repeatable.

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Yamaha's manufacturing process was so exacting that it ensured the formula provided by Rupert Neve was absolutely repeatable.

The collaboration with Yamaha and Rupert Neve Designs was a stroke of luck, with Yamaha's expertise in manufacturing and Rupert Neve's winding design.

00:23 so over the years uh Yamaha and Rupert

00:25 NE designs have had some collaborative

00:28 interactions with modeling of some of

00:31 the Rupert Neeve designs products along

00:34 with their interest in some of our

00:35 Hardware Designs and circuits and

00:37 Transformers and as I developed a

00:39 Transformer that was utilized in a new

00:42 Rupert Neeve designs product there was a

00:45 application for Yamaha so when the

00:47 engineers from Yamaha came to visit

00:49 Rupert Neeve designs to talk about

00:51 utilizing this Transformer that I

00:53 developed they were interested in seeing

00:54 my workshop and the winding machine and

00:56 how I developed this Transformer and so

00:58 we all went to my house to my little

01:01 workshop and that's where uh some

01:04 pickups were laying on the

01:21 table so just as a gift to one of the

01:24 amaha engineers I sent them a set of

01:26 pickups together with some of the rubert

01:28 ne Design's Hardware equipment that we

01:30 were sending to them for

01:34 analysis so the first part of the

01:36 process was where they asked me

01:38 to tell them the formula of something

01:41 that I had already wound and developed

01:43 and that took at least half a year of

01:47 back and forth of them winding samples

01:49 me listening to their samples but it was

01:52 a formula that I had already developed

01:54 the second part was some new designs

01:56 that they wanted and that took years I

01:59 would say say I was at least a year and

02:01 a

02:09 half in the context of fitting in this

02:12 instrument this was a new design and I

02:16 had to go through a lot of iterations

02:18 Yamaha got very involved in the analysis

02:21 very specific analysis of every detail

02:24 of the samples that I had sent

02:28 them

02:50 wind it to this formula and

02:53 listen Okay that's not right okay Winder

02:56 to this formula and listen and just as

02:59 multiple iterations to you got you got

03:01 one extreme to The Other Extreme and you

03:04 started working your way towards okay

03:06 now it's now it's getting close and that

03:09 level of detail took a long time to

03:28 develop

03:32 they had me send them magnet samples of

03:34 the ones I was using and they did a full

03:37 chemical analysis of exact compound that

03:40 went into that to make sure that their

03:41 magnet Supply matched that exact

03:44 formulation or the analysis of the wax

03:48 formulation which has a lot to do with

03:50 the winding capacitance in the end so

03:53 they did a lot of the work to

03:56 assure that not only did it match the

03:59 tonality that I had but the

04:00 repeatability Yamaha had the expertise

04:03 in the manufacturing process to take the

04:06 formula that I had provided to them and

04:10 develop a manufacturing process that was

04:12 so exacting that it was absolutely

04:28 repeatable

04:37 there's as much art as there is science

04:40 in in the the kind of winding design how

04:43 you layer everything what gauge wire you

04:45 use what insulation type all the

04:49 variables Just A Stroke of Luck being

04:52 there right place the right time that

04:53 this collaboration with Yamaha and ruper

04:55 Designs came to

04:58 be

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💫 FAQs about This YouTube Video

1. What is the collaboration between Yamaha and Rupert Neve Designs mentioned in the video?

The collaboration between Yamaha and Rupert Neve Designs mentioned in the video involves the modeling of Rupert Neve Designs products and the development of a transformer by Rupert Neve that was utilized in a new Yamaha product.

2. How long did it take to develop the new designs mentioned in the video?

The development of the new designs mentioned in the video took at least a year and a half, with Yamaha being very involved in the analysis and specific details of the samples sent.

3. What does the collaboration with Yamaha and Rupert Neve Designs emphasize in terms of manufacturing process?

The collaboration emphasizes the importance of the manufacturing process being exacting and repeatable, with Yamaha providing the expertise to develop a manufacturing process that matches the provided formula and ensures absolute repeatability.

4. What are the key aspects of the collaboration between Yamaha and Rupert Neve Designs mentioned in the video?

The key aspects of the collaboration include the development of a transformer by Rupert Neve used in a new Yamaha product, the years-long process of developing new designs with Yamaha's involvement, and the emphasis on an exacting and repeatable manufacturing process.

5. How is the collaboration between Yamaha and Rupert Neve Designs described in the video?

The collaboration between Yamaha and Rupert Neve Designs is described as a detailed and involved process, highlighting the development of new designs and the emphasis on manufacturing exactitude and repeatability.

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