a client has delivered these ampex machines – ex of capitol studios L.A. – to me – for to reclaim them up and into a new professional life. first thing has been to strip them free of their remote control and varispeed switching wireing. to return their control back to personal only. and to bypass…
philip the MB1 tube mic/di preamp
famous pultec MB1 design two tube mic /di amp. my ekadek clone of it lovingly built into this 1960s philips portable tape deck. i made this one is 2002 and have used it with great success to sell the design and portable concept over and over again. as well as stereo and 4-8-16 channel rack…
scorpion final assemblage
yesterday i picked up the fresh anodized metalwork from tokoroa. marcel from advanced anodizers reckons he and his crew never have any infections from cuts and scratches. the chemicals have fried all the germs. i wanna take a bath in that stuff. cos i have so many cuts and grazes. i also bort some awesome…
scorpion at the chop shop
a client got himself a tac scorpion 12 – 8 – 2 . straight out of amek california 1987. these consoles were fairly big and heavy. made solid out of quality materials really. and representing for a heap of bang for your bucks in their day. and actually still now. an assfull were sold back…
ferralgrapha results are in
alex got back just today. he is loving his system i reckon. p.s. The Ferralgrapha is bloody excellent mate! I’ve done two recordings so far and even been trying it out in live situations. It treats everything so beautifully! Been getting some really luscious sounds with it. When i have some mixed examples i’ll write…
one live ferralgrapha
the ferralgrapha has passed all the tests and has left the building. wow. he is awesome so so sweet sounding. the mic sound is fat . clean and solid. 50/150/600 mic balanced input types make for very useable tone variations with any mic. the special extra amp stage gets very miles of gain for the…
black lions getting ekadeked
a client had purchased a heap of black lion audio gear . he has liked the sound from the units – and reckoned they represented quite good ‘sonic trustworthy’ value — except for the build quality and control component (pots) quality and robustness. dam cheap little things. busted and broken after only a bit of…
ferralgrapha is building
ive drilled up the panel and letterstamped it. it’s been bent to fit the cabinet properly and is getting anodized as i type. while it is soaking . i’ll finish and test the tube chassis. 8 tubes . 6 signal transformers. my evolved prototype chassis sounds great – really open feeling microphone sound. the tube…
minifenk in zebs world
zebulon wrote me the day after he picked up his new minifenk control room monitor station. Hi Greg, the fenk sounds great, I listened to music for a couple of hours last night. I instantly noticed the mid range was not smeary, snare drums sounded tighter & overall it sounded like there was more space…
commando design preamp
the commando is a naked preamp with no annoying reach around issues. read on. its inputs and outputs and controls are all all right there up front. . perfect. theres no reach around issues. its actually a lot easier and efficient to assemble all the components of this multichannel preamp on one surface. then u…
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