"BEST CONSOLE ON EARTH"

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http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.d [...] 34629&rd=1

Well, damn, I guess I can die happy.

jb

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"Richard Crowley" <rcrowley7@xprt.net> wrote in message
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> "reddred" wrote ...
> > ebay item=3759234629
> >
> > Well, damn, I guess I can die happy.
>
>
> Buy It Now Price: US $365,000.00
> Only $15209 per month
>
> What's in Hinsdale, Illinois?
>

Why, the BEST CONSOLE ON EARTH, of course.

jb

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<< "reddred" opaloka@REMOVECAPSyahoo.com >>
<<
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.d [...] =375923462
9&rd=1

Well, damn, I guess I can die happy. >>

That's a Focusrite Studio Console. It has 64 channels of original
Focusrite ISA110 micpres - those were designed BTW by Rupert Neve - and it has
GML Automation, all patchbays and wiring, it was just recapped this year, and
it does include delivery and commisioning in the USA. There were only 10 of
those consoles made.

From Mix Magazine

" The original ISA 110/130 units were developed by Rupert Neve, who had been
commissioned to supply 16 extra inputs for a Neve console at AIR Studios. These
1984-era ancillary input modules fitted vertically into a rackmounted card cage
that required an external power supply. Around 1986, Focusrite began selling
outboard racks containing two, four or eight ISA 110/130 modules, and in 1989
the module became the basis of the Focusrite Studio console (of which only ten
were made). The Focusrite Red Range products and the ISA 215 units are also
derived in part from the original 110 module."

Maybe a bit expensive, but I wouldn't turn my nose up if I had to work on
one either.


Will Miho
NY Music & TV Audio Guy
Audioist / Fox News
"The large print giveth and the small print taketh away..." Tom Waits

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JWelsh3374 wrote:

>
> That would be the 8068 or the Sphere Eclipse C here in town at Quad.

Hey Guido,

I here they're trying to sell that Sphere over at Quad. Any idea what
they are planning to do with that room?

--
Eric

www.Raw-Tracks.com

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chetatkinsdiet <mwood5nospam@yahoo.com> wrote:
>Great looking and I'd imagine sounding, console, but best in world?
>I'd imagine there's a few API, Helios and Neve boards that might have
>something to say about that.

I might give the Millennia Media Mixing Suite that award, if the knobs were
bigger. Best console on earth for WHAT?
--scott
--
"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."

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"WillStG" <willstg@aol.comnospam> wrote in message
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> Maybe a bit expensive, but I wouldn't turn my nose up if I had to
work on
> one either.
>

I'm sure the bad-ass factor is about as high as you can go, I just thought
it was a hell of thing to say in an ad.

jb

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Cosworth wrote:

> Some of you may remember me bitching a few months ago about a gig in a
> studio that had really nice gear but lousy sound isolation. We ended up
> moving to another studio in the middle of the project because the traffic
> noise from the street outside was so bad.
>
> I'll swear that's the place - same console, same brick walls, same ugly
> chairs. the studio is actually in the city of Chicago, but it's pretty
> close to Hinsdale - west side. Not surprised if they need to sell.

Buy a console like _that_ and not take care of isolation? Leasehold
improvements start to look affordable...

"All you really need is a spare bedroom."

--
ha

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On Mon, 08 Nov 2004 17:22:50 GMT, "Cosworth"
<billbalmer@worldnet.att.net> wrote:

>
>"reddred" <opaloka@REMOVECAPSyahoo.com> wrote in message
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>> http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.d [...] 34629&rd=1
>>
>> Well, damn, I guess I can die happy.
>>
>> jb
>>
>>
>
>Some of you may remember me bitching a few months ago about a gig in a
>studio that had really nice gear but lousy sound isolation. We ended up
>moving to another studio in the middle of the project because the traffic
>noise from the street outside was so bad.

I'm too lazy to google for it, but didn't you say back then that
the studio was in Manhattan? Were you intentionally being misleading
(to protect the guilty and all - shades of Mixerman), or what?

>I'll swear that's the place - same console, same brick walls, same ugly
>chairs. the studio is actually in the city of Chicago, but it's pretty
>close to Hinsdale - west side. Not surprised if they need to sell.
>
>Bill Balmer
>

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"Ben Bradley" <ben_nospam_bradley@mindspring.com> wrote in message
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>
> I'm too lazy to google for it, but didn't you say back then that
> the studio was in Manhattan? Were you intentionally being misleading
> (to protect the guilty and all - shades of Mixerman), or what?
>

Nope, you're delusional. Either that or you're thinking of a different "bad
studio experience" story. Mine was in Chicago (as I always stated), but
it's true that I never mentioned the name of the place, litigiousness (sp?)
being what it is these days. Google away and you'll see.

I showed the listing to the producer from that nightmare of a session, and
he recognized it immediately as well. Although the studio is (was?) in the
city, he also mentioned to me that the owner of the place does live in
Hinsdale.

Bill Balmer

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"EggHd" wrote:
> I'm tryinbg to remember who has/had one of these that I used.
>
> Ocean Way LA I believe Jack Joseph Puig does all his mixes on that one
now
> Conway had one I'm pretty sure.
> Electric Lady (was still there a few years ago)

Electric Lady sold it maybe five years ago. Apparently NY didn't have enough
SSL rooms.

>
> It's a real nice console. Better than other consoles out there? That's a
lot
> of $$$.

It sounded really good... when it worked (which was at least most of the
time). But being a sort of an odd duck it was supposedly hard to book.

-jw

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in article 20041109161303.06368.00000319@mb-m18.aol.com, EggHd at
egghd@aol.com wrote on 11/9/04 4:13 PM:

> I'm tryinbg to remember who has/had one of these that I used.
>
> Ocean Way LA I believe Jack Joseph Puig does all his mixes on that one now
> Conway had one I'm pretty sure.
> Electric Lady (was still there a few years ago)

No, no. Lady had one of the "Forte" consoles
http://manleylabs.com/ghost.html
Totally different console. It was broken up into sidecars a few years ago.

Focusrite history
http://www.focusrite.com/products/history.html

Only 10 Studio consoles ever built

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JWelsh3374 wrote:
> << I here they're trying to sell that Sphere over at Quad. Any idea what
> they are planning to do with that room? >>
>
>
> ProTools!

UUUhhhggg!!

I always thought it was a waste to have that Sphere in that room anyway.
I though it should be put to work as a tracking console, and that room
was just mixing/overdubs. The Eclipse C was quite advanced for the time
that it came out. Mucho aux/cue sends, etc.

Man I'd like to have that console. Don't have the room or the cash right
now.

--
Eric

www.Raw-Tracks.com

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In article <2vdkh4F2k4agiU1@uni-berlin.de>, EricK <eric@Raw-Tracks.com> wrote:
>JWelsh3374 wrote:
>> << I here they're trying to sell that Sphere over at Quad. Any idea what
>> they are planning to do with that room? >>

>> ProTools!

>UUUhhhggg!!

>I always thought it was a waste to have that Sphere in that room
>anyway. I though it should be put to work as a tracking console,
>and that room was just mixing/overdubs. The Eclipse C was quite
>advanced for the time that it came out. Mucho aux/cue sends, etc.

>Man I'd like to have that console. Don't have the room or the
>cash right now.

Though I've been out of the business for years I really did
love the Eclipse C. I still have a poster of it [that has gotten
wrinkled over the years] that we shot when it was put in place.
10 minute slow speed 8x10 transparencies.

Many of standard features were things that we paid extra for - as
ours started out to be a stock model.

Half-way though they changed their mind, built a brand new cabinet
using aircraft style construction, remote power supplies, etc.

It was to originally have 100 unit gas plasma displays but it got
changed to 200 units. I don't know who was responsible for that -
either Don McGlaughlin [sp?] or John Hall - but it was nice.

So the first Eclipse C was basically a custom console for us.
They held to the contract price even though it cost far more than
they had imagined. I think we came in at $86,000.

The next console came in at $125,000. Ronnie Milsap came down to
hear it and ordered one for his Groundstar studios. And Band in
Atlanta got one. The chief engineer from Globo TV in Brazil came
to Orlando to see ours and they ordered two. With import taxes
and all the other folderol going with imports theirs came to
about $250,000 each.

In taling with John on the design he used Electrol reed relays
to take signals to ground when muting as he never found an FET
that did it right. It was only later that others started
cascading the FETs to give the same effect.

John also put in light bulbs in the preamps so that if a transistor
blew the lights acted as current limiters and all you had to do was
open the back and see what module had the light burning. I think
we had four spare preamps and only used two. We never lost an
Electrol relay.

The way the console was built to you could use a jacking screw to
lift it at first and then stand it vertically made it easy to work
on the backplane. I think we had pictures of Gary Corellii standing
inside while doing wiring. Andy, Bob Todrank [his first full
studio that gave birth to Valley Audio], Gary and myself were there
every day for weeks. We took 1/2 day off on Thanksgiving to go eat
dinner at my mother-in-laws - and then we went back to work.
I cut the first session on that on December 27, 1977. It matched
beautifully with the characteristics of our Steven 821B - 16/24/32
track. We later moved that to the B room and put in an A-800.

We did pretty good for 6 people who had never worked at any other
studio except the two warehouse studios we had built before that.

A couple triple-plantinums, 7 gold, and a lot that barely went
plastic.

I really loved that console.

Bill

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Bill Vermillion - bv @ wjv . com

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On Sat, 13 Nov 2004 23:35:00 GMT, bv@wjv.com (Bill Vermillion) wrote:


>The air-freight was to
>minimize the shaking of a cross-country truck trip


Bill,

That's a great story! Thanks for sharing it here.

Actually, the truck shaking might have been an excellent addition to
your QC process, assuming you could be at the other end to commission
it. I've always wanted a shaker table for product QA/QC -- even tried
to build one once from a paint shaker, but believe me the one-gallon
paint store shakers don't work with a 20 pound chassis! Still looking
around for a surplus 5 gal shaker that we can modify.

Speaking of big consoles, have you seen this?

http://www.vintec-audio.de

JL

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Oceanway (L.A.) Studio A had a 72 input Focusrite, one of the first. I
tracked on it and it was awesome. I still miss the custom DiMedio in
Studio B though. The sound of an Ampex ATR-124 through those 2
consoles was BIG! I hope they haven't been chopped up and sold.

Audy O


egghd@aol.com (EggHd) wrote in message news:<20041109161303.06368.00000319@mb-m18.aol.com>...
> I'm tryinbg to remember who has/had one of these that I used.
>
> Ocean Way LA I believe Jack Joseph Puig does all his mixes on that one now
> Conway had one I'm pretty sure.
> Electric Lady (was still there a few years ago)
>
> It's a real nice console. Better than other consoles out there? That's a lot
> of $$$.
>
>
> ---------------------------------------
> "I know enough to know I don't know enough"

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Hi Will:

Usually at Audio Resource (the old Sounds of Hawaii) but they closed
the room last year. It was where I worked as a novice engineer WAY
back on a brand new 24 input Neve 8058, 2 EMT plates, a Gold Foil,
Pultecs, all the classic Neumann mics and tape machines from Ampex
1200, a Stevens 40 Track, then Lyrec 24. High ceiling, Allen Sides'
monitors he set up and room designed by Jack Edwards and Bill Putnam
himself. I was tracking "Don Ho's 30 Greatest Hawaiian Hits" with some
incredible cats playing on it. I never realized then how good I had
it! Billy Preston, Sly Stone, Larry Graham stopped by to jam, I got to
do a George Benson session, all in my first 2 years as an engineer!
When they closed and crated the Neve for storage, I thought I was
going to be permanently depressed.

Can you believe it, I used to go water skiing, to lunch, to the beach
and out to dinner every night with Bill Putnam when he visited? Nicest
man in the world.

Now I usually work at home (Radar 24 Nyquist) except for drum overdubs
and if the budget permits, I go to LA.

I remember Bill Valdez, great player! Actually, I re-wrote the KGMB's
"One of the Good Things About Hawaii", expanding it so they could
make it into a video for the station when I did their whole News
package and station promos. Also did "Let's Go Fishing", "Hawaii's
Kitchen" for KHON and a bunch of others.

Are you from Hawaii Will?

If you come over for a visit, I'll show you around all the newest
studios and Hawaii Convention Center (I was the state's consultant for
all the audio and acoustic design from design to completion).

Aloha Brah!
Audy O


willstg@aol.comnospam (WillStG) wrote in message news:<20041119152258.22033.00000884@mb-m06.aol.com>...
> > audy@audykimura.com (Audy
>
> >Oceanway (L.A.) Studio A had a 72 input Focusrite, one of the first. I
> >tracked on it and it was awesome. I still miss the custom DiMedio in
> >Studio B though. The sound of an Ampex ATR-124 through those 2
> >consoles was BIG! I hope they haven't been chopped up and sold.
>
> So where do you work when you record in Honolulu Audy?
>
> BTW, I know you wrote that "One of the good things about Hawaii" KGMB jingle
> that I still have stuck in my head from when I was a kid, but did you also
> write that Illikai Hotel jingle "It just happens to be happening"? My old
> jazz guitar teacher, the late Bill Valdez used to love that one...
>
> Will Miho
> NY Music & TV Audio Guy
> Audioist / Fox News
> "The large print giveth and the small print taketh away..." Tom Waits

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Scott:

You worked in there? Gawd!!! It was torn down to make room for another
Hilton hotel tower and parking. Both Don Ho and Jim Nabors
(Gaaaawleeee!) were the last ones to play there if I remember
correctly. Also, they were having a big problem with so many cats
living in there, and pigeons, which means there were probably a lot of
rats too.

Not to worry Scott, we have some other REALLY bad places for you to
try. BTW, what show were you working on at "The Dome?"

Look me up when you get here again. Of course we'll talk audio so you
can write off your trip too. I do this for all my audio friends!

Aloha,
Audy O


kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) wrote in message news:<cnnicu$2k6$1@panix2.panix.com>...
> Audy <audy@audykimura.com> wrote:
> >
> >If you come over for a visit, I'll show you around all the newest
> >studios and Hawaii Convention Center (I was the state's consultant for
> >all the audio and acoustic design from design to completion).
>
> So... whatever happened to the Acoustically Perfect Kaiser Aluminum Dome?
> That had to have been the worst-sounding hall I ever worked in.
> --scott

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kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) wrote in message news:<cnqkhr$2i1$1@panix3.panix.com>...
> When I was in high school I wound up carrying stuff and wrapping cables
> for a lot of folks in the area. I think the Kaiser and the Conroy Bowl
> were probably the two worst-sounding places I had ever heard until I got
> to work a tent at the E.K. Hernandez Midway....
>
The Hilton Dome was pretty bad, aluminum parabola with a concrete
floor. Not a good way to plan a music venue. Ah, you worked at the
E.K. Fernandez Midway too? Did you get to eat fresh hot Malasadas from
Leonard's Bakery? Did you hit 3 balloons with darts and win a prize? I
can still smell the sawdust.

> Damned if I can even remember these days. I worked on a lot of things,
> including a really weird local Dixieland group. I think I had just missed
> Arthur Lyman at the time.
>
Was it Ken Alford and The Dixie Cats? Had to be! He recorded an album
at the studio I worked at. That guy got around. Some trivia: Did you
know Louis Armstrong, yes Satchmo himself, attended Ken Alford's
wedding and even sat in with the band? Benny Goodman also sat in with
them once. I wasn't there but there was an article about it in the
local paper. I knew Arthur Lyman, he passed away several years ago, a
nice man. Martin Denny is still alive and plays piano in his 90s. In
fact he lives near me and I see him from time to time. He is truly a
wonderful man and musician. I had the pleasure of interviewing him for
FM-Tokyo and we became friends.
>
> I think it would be too depressing. Everyone I went to high school with
> has moved to the Bay Area for the low cost of living. Places that I
> remember as being cane fields are now hotels. I don't want to see that.
> It's bad enough seeing what has happened here in Virginia in the past
> couple decades.
> --scott
>
We still have lots of cane and pineapple fields and quite a bit of
"country" left. If you really want to get away, Molokai is great. My
advice to those who are thinking of moving there: "Have a good looking
wife and a TV because you'll be spending a lot of time looking at
them." Just kidding, I love it there and especially the people, folks
still leave their doors unlocked and lots of uninhabited land.

The last time I went, the Rent A Car people told me to just leave the
keys in the ignition! Great!

Audy O