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Post by Johnkenn on Mar 27, 2023 15:48:41 GMT -6
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Post by the other mark williams on Mar 27, 2023 16:03:26 GMT -6
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Post by teejay on Mar 27, 2023 16:08:44 GMT -6
Listed 5 years ago. That might be a clue.
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Post by Johnkenn on Mar 27, 2023 16:39:19 GMT -6
Listed 5 years ago. That might be a clue. Ha! Didn’t even notice that |
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Post by tkaitkai on Mar 27, 2023 16:52:44 GMT -6
I was trying to put money aside for a car, but fuck it, I’ll take two of these.
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Post by paulcheeba on Mar 27, 2023 19:08:21 GMT -6
They are so overpriced all the time. It’s like people think they’re real Helios. That whole competition to be Helios is Heliarios. Have you seen the Bristol company website that have owned the rights since 1997 and never made anything? Visit companies house or Helios Electronics Limited/Caz limited if you’re bored. Jim has to license the name. His Olympic modules are the best I’ve ever heard and he’s sold out because I rather raved about them on the purple people site.
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Post by nobtwiddler on Mar 27, 2023 19:23:59 GMT -6
Such a deal!
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Post by Johnkenn on Mar 27, 2023 21:14:51 GMT -6
They are so overpriced all the time. It’s like people think they’re real Helios. That whole competition to be Helios is Heliarios. Have you seen the Bristol company website that have owned the rights since 1997 and never made anything? Visit companies house or Helios Electronics Limited/Caz limited if you’re bored. Jim has to license the name. His Olympic modules are the best I’ve ever heard and he’s sold out because I rather raved about them on the purple people site. Yeah Hunter was talking about those. |
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Post by ulriggribbons on Mar 28, 2023 9:41:21 GMT -6
Oh man, you're giving me ptsd/flashbacks of the Helios/Realios thread.
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Post by nobtwiddler on Mar 28, 2023 12:42:30 GMT -6
I still have all the audio files (somewhere?) for the Helios shootout we did a number of years ago at my place...
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Post by paulcheeba on Mar 28, 2023 21:05:27 GMT -6
That 200 page thread/ argument makes for a great History of Helios novel. 😂 I think a lot of them are pretty fugly. No denying they captured some great records though.
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Post by Johnkenn on Mar 28, 2023 22:10:15 GMT -6
I’ve got a H2 0011 that sounds great.
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Post by Martin John Butler on Mar 30, 2023 22:19:02 GMT -6
Funny, I used the UAD Helios plug-in on a test track this week, along with their 176 plug. It was colored like crazy, but I really like it. Does any company like Stam or Audioscape make a clone?
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Post by robo on Mar 30, 2023 22:29:03 GMT -6
Funny, I used the UAD Helios plug-in on a test track this week, along with their 176 plug. It was colored like crazy, but I really like it. Does any company like Stam or Audioscape make a clone? Isn’t the Wunder Audio stuff based on Helios designs? I think one of the Iron Age pres is Helios inspired, though I’m not sure which one. |
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Post by paulcheeba on Mar 30, 2023 23:27:25 GMT -6
The best and only Olympic studio 1 console clone is Jim Dowlers Olympic Germanium 65 modules which the Brit classics were made on. The Stones, Hendrix etc.
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Post by thehightenor on Mar 31, 2023 6:56:27 GMT -6
They are so overpriced all the time. It’s like people think they’re real Helios. That whole competition to be Helios is Heliarios. Have you seen the Bristol company website that have owned the rights since 1997 and never made anything? Visit companies house or Helios Electronics Limited/Caz limited if you’re bored. Jim has to license the name. His Olympic modules are the best I’ve ever heard and he’s sold out because I rather raved about them on the purple people site. The price of that Olympic mic pre is actually pretty reasonable all things considered. Now it's on my radar too :-) |
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Post by tkaitkai on Mar 31, 2023 13:21:43 GMT -6
Funny, I used the UAD Helios plug-in on a test track this week, along with their 176 plug. It was colored like crazy, but I really like it. Does any company like Stam or Audioscape make a clone? Isn’t the Wunder Audio stuff based on Helios designs? I think one of the Iron Age pres is Helios inspired, though I’m not sure which one.
Wunder mic pres/EQs are based on a console called The Allotrope that was custom built for JPJ. I think the original was similar to a Helios, but definitely its own beast. There was a really cool article I read years back that detailed the whole history of that console. Wish I could find it.
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Post by Johnkenn on Mar 31, 2023 14:53:44 GMT -6
Isn’t the Wunder Audio stuff based on Helios designs? I think one of the Iron Age pres is Helios inspired, though I’m not sure which one. Wunder mic pres/EQs are based on a console called The Allotrope that was custom built for JPJ. I think the original was similar to a Helios, but definitely its own beast. There was a really cool article I read years back that detailed the whole history of that console. Wish I could find it.
Thought they were Neve with some sort of Helios lineage |
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Post by tasteliketape on Mar 31, 2023 15:44:35 GMT -6
Quoted from vintage king site
“In 1971, Led Zeppelin bass and keyboard player John Paul Jones ordered a one-of-a-kind custom console, ‘The Allotrope’. Decades later, Wunder Audio has spent years in R&D resulting in dozens of improvements to the original design. The result is the Wunderbar, the PEQ2, as well as the 500 Series modules, the Cobalt Pre and the Allotrope EQ.”
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