Fairchild 670 is back - wtf on the price!

Well, “they” (as in the company, which many times ends up just being one person) can either address your problems as a customer and come to a collective solution, or the ADHD can kick in and they loose a customer 😂. My only point is that stuff happens, and I’m always willing to give a company the benefit of the doubt and a chance to solve issues. If they’re going to be rude and accusatory, my money goes somewhere else. There’s way too many audio companies out there, and I would rather give my money to the person that’s going to put in the work and be reasonable.

At this point, I’m pretty much on a “first name basis” relationship with every single gear company of stuff I use in the studio. I’ve sold a lot of stuff the last few years when people were dicks, I want to invest in companies that do good things and care. There’s plenty of them out there.

It's actually a friend who owns and he said it is what it is for the reason of not having to ship it. I was just really shocked to see those oversights given I've never seen it on any other gear I own that costs farrrrrrr less.

I have to say, it might be the best compressor I have heard on a vocal and I have a vintage LA-2A, an RS124, and a pair of Serpent Splices sitting right next to it. It just adds thickness in the bottom without ever getting muddy and can do some serious GR without any audible pumping. Loving it on the 2nd time constant.

I don’t even know if I’d ever consider spending the money on an Undertone 670, but if I did consider it, I’d sure as hell buy that over the Fairchild at that ridiculous price!  Right now I’m looking at a matched pair of RS660’s for 10K CAD (like $10 USD )…that’s about my ceiling EVER on any piece of audio gear, and I’m sure I’ll be more than happy with those.  With all the companies making sweet audio gear at much better rates these days, Fairchild is cracked!  I could never support a company with such disgusting prices…there is no way it costs them even 50% of this price to produce…straight up name brand gouging, sickening!

I'm with you on not dealing with or supporting companies/people who are unnecessarily rude.

Many years ago, one of the original "CLONES" so to speak was the Fairman, and it's price was quite high...
Took many by surprise how expensive it was.

A few years later, Anthony Demaria, from ADL, wanted recreate a 670, as well as a 660, so he searched all over the world, and after a few years he sourced all the parts needed to build a few of these "recreation 670's & 660's"

I believe he built 5 x 670's (I own #3) and other than it's outward appearance, is a part, for part, clone of the original, using all the same parts, transformers, and original tubes!
And yes, way back when it cost me 20K!

This shit is expensive, but at least I know, mine is for better for worse, recreating the original experience, for whatever that's worth.

Anyhow, when using my newly acquired 670, I found a few peculiar things while trying to use it on the mix buss, so I asked Anthony, from ADL to come and take a look.
He and I went thru the unit, changed tubes, realigned it, etc, etc, spent many hours, trying to fix what I didn't like.

After Tony was done doing what I asked, I hated it!

I then asked hime to return it to whatever the original setting were.
(another 4 hours, give or take)

And as an aside, when I lived in Millbrook, one of my neighbors, and best friends, for 20 or so years was Eddie Kramer!
He and I would have dinner together (schedule permitting) every Thursday during that time.
Still perplexed by trying to use this on the mx buss, I asked Eddie to come to my place and take a listen, let me know what he thought, especially from his experiences with the original units.

In a nutshell, he said my unit sounded exactly like what he remembered, and it exhibited all the quirks he remembered from back then, he also suggested, don't use it on a mix!
Much better on individual sources!


So there ya, go.

Haha
Yes he was~!