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Post by tasteliketape on Jul 7, 2016 20:40:36 GMT -6
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Post by ericn on Jul 7, 2016 21:57:55 GMT -6
It's only money!
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Post by tasteliketape on Jul 7, 2016 22:01:24 GMT -6
Yea and things like shelter ,food are so overrated anyway lol
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Post by EmRR on Jul 7, 2016 22:22:08 GMT -6
That's a historical piece price fo' sho'.
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Post by Ward on Jul 8, 2016 6:12:35 GMT -6
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Post by nobtwiddler on Jul 8, 2016 15:47:42 GMT -6
I could be wrong, (Lord knows it wouldn't be the first time) but I think he'd be lucky if he gets $45K ~!
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Post by mrholmes on Jul 8, 2016 16:24:36 GMT -6
Who was Mr. or Mrs Flickinger?
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Post by tasteliketape on Jul 8, 2016 17:01:59 GMT -6
AES Nashville "legends in the round "Not the same console but interesting and related
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Post by ericn on Jul 8, 2016 18:52:35 GMT -6
I could be wrong, (Lord knows it wouldn't be the first time) but I think he'd be lucky if he gets $45K ~! m Well yeah!
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Post by NoFilterChuck on Jul 9, 2016 8:00:34 GMT -6
What's up with the Tetris game on the left side of the console?
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Post by M57 on Jul 9, 2016 8:43:08 GMT -6
Does that big red clearly all analog thing with the coiled cord on the right come with it?
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Post by sparqee on Jul 9, 2016 9:43:41 GMT -6
Does that big red clearly all analog thing with the coiled cord on the right come with it? Connects you directly to the in-house service technition who's standing by ready to replace blown caps.
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Post by tasteliketape on Jul 9, 2016 9:46:51 GMT -6
Does that big red clearly all analog thing with the coiled cord on the right come with it? Connects you directly to the in-house service technition who's standing by ready to replace blown caps. Then you can play Tetris game till he fixes it lol
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Post by ericn on Jul 10, 2016 14:41:54 GMT -6
What's the voltage of Flickinger? Wonder if one could do a Flickinger opamp in 990/API foot print?
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Post by tasteliketape on Jul 10, 2016 15:37:31 GMT -6
quote from Skibbie owner of sly's console skibbie's clone on the left original on the right Hello everyone! Just thought I'd chime in, give a little background and clarify some things… I originally made the 736 as a 500 series preamp for Jamie Hince from the Kills. He wanted some pre's to take back to England to do demo work with... something that sounded like my Sly console. I had already remade the opamps for spares , and I had the trannies remade for another Flick restoration that I was doing at the time (someone had removed all the iron in the 80’s! Go figure!! ). So it was kind of a natural evolution into a production run. The op amp in the pre is the 535-7, a small daughter board mounted amp found in most Flickinger consoles. Its topology is very very similar to the 535-5. The 535-5 is built on a larger card and designed to mount under the meter bridge of the desk. It is a very fast op amp, especially for its age.. Great for preamps for sure, but it lacks unity gain stability...it can be slowed down for buffer amps etc, but it loses some of its punch... so in the console it is run with gain and then padded back down! This is not right of course, but it sounds super fantastic!! and like Larry said.. It is amazing on drums! The amp itself is similar to a spectra 101 in that it uses some of the same transistors, but it is a unique design... 3566 matched input pair and 4036, 2102 output pair! 8 transistors total… I know that it is nothing like an API and it doesn't really sound like one either... The sound is really dense and not nearly as manicured as the 2520... more 1073 like if anything... As for transformers... most of the original Flick gear used custom UTRAD transformers. The PFUNK console used Jensens on the input of the mic pre, as it was built after the company was gone (the remaining employees couldn't get the utrads!). I had the original transformers remade from a total teardown of samples from my console and from original specs that Triad dug out of their archives for me (as you may know…Triad acquired UTRAD in the 80's). It was a long process, and we went through several proto stages to get it right… If anyone has any questions. Please feel free to ask... I’m making this gear cause I love the sound of it and I use it every day… and yes I’ve been speaking to Dan Flickinger! -Bill Skibbe on the left is our 535-7 and an original on the right.. oddly enough we've found most amp failures in the originals to be caused by carbon comp resistor drift! Attached Thumbnails Anyone put their ear on one of these new skibbe Flickinger pre's?-535-7-amp.jpg Share Report Quote
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Post by EmRR on Jul 10, 2016 16:36:48 GMT -6
Small detail, may be wrong, I feel that I have had and seen many early mid-70's Triad transformers that were marked Triad/UTRAD.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 11, 2016 8:14:35 GMT -6
I really like some of the records recorded at that studio - they also have a Neve Melbourn which is nice...
Always been interested in trying their Red Stripe La2a..
250K though - phew thinking about that makes me feel light headed..
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Post by stratboy on Jul 11, 2016 9:55:38 GMT -6
I went to high school in Hudson, Ohio, location of the Flickinger factory. I was too young to work there, but I knew about it from a good friend and woodworking mentor who, I believe, made some end panels for Flickinger consoles. I don't know which ones. He told me Dan Flickinger was an eccentric genius, which seems to have been borne out by subsequent events. Still, I wish I had gotten the opportunity to see it back in the day. Now it would cost me a quarter mil to get a first hand look at one of those consoles! Or, $45k, depending who you talk to. Either way, beyond my pay grade.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 11, 2016 10:16:01 GMT -6
Really, for this kind of money you can hire most probably someone who builds you your own unique console and write your own history.
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Post by EmRR on Jul 11, 2016 10:22:48 GMT -6
I'm sure that one is in the best condition of any on the planet. If you were hunting one, that'd be the one to pursue. But. I did a bit of exploratory on the one Mark Linkous owned, and it had some severe restoration needs, none of which were remotely easy. I think he paid a lot, probably too much, and once he passed I got the idea it was possibly parted out. Voltage I recall was +/-24. The thing with Bill owning that one for sale today is he knows all the little maintenance tricks from years of experience, probably too many to pass on to a new owner, and any new tech is going to have a learning curve (expensive), even if they are experts in old console maintenance. Maybe Bill has the secret to keeping the pots clean, or maybe he's replaced them all. Mark's EQ's were so scratchy you could destroy speakers turning any of them, and they were something like 4 deck Mod Pots, which State doesn't seem to want to entertain building anymore. I've asked before, and don't remember a clear answer, does ultrasonic cleaning work in those cases? Anyway I hope someone has deep enough pockets to want to keep beasts like these going in one piece.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 11, 2016 10:38:50 GMT -6
Ultrasonic cleaning can even be used on whole channel strips.... For potentiometers, they have to be pretty scratchy and if they don't even move smoothly anymore, ultrasonic cleaning of the pots in an alcohol bath may do good work. But this procedure still includes at least disassembling each pot and re-lube it. A lot of work, engineers nightmare. Especially on 4-deck pots.
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Post by EmRR on Jul 11, 2016 10:49:39 GMT -6
40ish transistors per EQ module too. It was suggested elsewhere this is not the entire EQ circuit either.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 11, 2016 10:52:49 GMT -6
For exotic 4-deck pots with different values on single decks, one can reproduce these with "transplanting" the resistive element from single deck pots by exchanging the phenolic wafers the carbon traces are printed on. No fun to do.
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Post by kilroyrock on Jul 12, 2016 6:30:50 GMT -6
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Post by gouge on Jul 12, 2016 6:39:03 GMT -6
pretty sure steve albini described the flickinger console as the best sounding ever.
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