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Post by jcoutu1 on Apr 3, 2016 12:16:56 GMT -6
Great looking space. I'd love to get a shave and a haircut sometime. u feel like cluing us in? bfy.tw/54i1
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Post by tonycamphd on Apr 3, 2016 12:30:08 GMT -6
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Post by mrholmes on Apr 4, 2016 15:00:25 GMT -6
BTW seeing those pics makes mixing ITB attractive again to me. Can I have some more inner live pics please......
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Post by svart on Apr 4, 2016 18:01:20 GMT -6
...yikes - sorry for the giant pic! thats a serious badass! it's supposed to be the most HIFI SSL ever made, is it true? what are the main op amps it uses? thanx, and congrats on owning a beast of a rig, would love to hear that in person one day! NE5534 as buffers and gain on all channels, OPA2164 in high impedance places like EQ. TL051/52 in servo duties. Some fancy RF opamps in summing amp locations.
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Post by svart on Apr 4, 2016 18:06:54 GMT -6
Damn I remember having to recap our 6000e to many times.... That's what I see when I look at that there looks to be very few electrolytics on that channel, shouldn't be a big deal actually? and probably why there hasn't been problems for the OP? The 4K used lytic coupling caps but used back-to-back caps with a voltage bias between them to operate them as a pseudo-bipolar arrangement with voltage bias that keeps them in a more linear region for greatly reduced distortion. They did this because nobody made good bipolars when the 4K were in production. Nowadays people make good bipolars so it's not that big a deal anymore. The 9K uses mostly servos and no lytics in the signal path. IF they need a cap in the audio path, they use high impedance circuits and small value film caps. The newer "super analogue" designs are more of the same but have switched to MC3307x opamps for a lot of duties instead of the NE55xx series.
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Post by jdc on Apr 5, 2016 8:34:24 GMT -6
Svart, you ever think about designing a channel strip?
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Post by svart on Apr 5, 2016 8:42:41 GMT -6
Svart, you ever think about designing a channel strip? In fact I have. I've thought about doing a semi-modular one for my own mixer.. But the problem comes in when you need special parts, mainly pots. I started a thread in the DIY section about it.. But I've been so swamped with family issues, recording and trying to get the next order of converters together, that I haven't even looked at it since. A lot of the good filter and EQ designs utilize reverse-log ganged pots, etc.. Not exactly cheap or plentiful unless you special order tons of them and sell the product in large quantities... Then you run into preferences.. Some want color, some want clean, some just want to complain about whatever someone else is using! So designing something relatively complex is rarely worth it unless you can plan for selling a lot of them.. But then the market changes from day to day as opinions change. I think that's why 500 series took off. You can mix and match as you see fit, literally changing your chain by the hour if want. Large format mixers leave you stuck with one choice. Unfortunately in this day and age, people are more in love with the idea of hunting for and finding a "perfect" device, than they are learning what they have. The options are endless, and that keeps people excited for buying new gear, but it also keeps them in a state of "master of none" as they never truly learn any one piece of gear intimately.
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Post by Martin John Butler on Apr 5, 2016 9:36:53 GMT -6
That looks scary to me.
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Post by rowmat on Apr 5, 2016 12:24:03 GMT -6
I had someone try and tempt me to purchase a SSL4000E/G+. I did some research and decided to go with a Neotek Elite as the Neoteks have great EQ, are sonically good, less expensive to power and less complicated to fix. I realise we don't get the individual channel dynamics or 'total recall' but most of that is taken care of during tracking and ITB.
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Post by jeremygillespie on Apr 5, 2016 13:40:33 GMT -6
I had the chance to work on a 48 channel Duality last year for about a week. Very cool console, took a while to get used to, with it being slightly "married" to pro tools. The preamps are super useful with their ability to add harmonics, once you got used to the newer style of switching (computerized 48v switches, groups, etc) you can really fly around on the thing. And it plugs into a few 110v outlets. No machine room needed.
The power bill with the 9000k is pretty crazy.
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