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Post by roly on Mar 8, 2021 0:05:28 GMT -5
Like it's owner, my rig is ancient. RME HDSP9624 card. Apogee AD 16 converters plus a Lucid AD 9624 and a Behringer Ultragain Pro for talkback, guide tracks, and headphone mixes X 2. Two track converter is a Lucid DA 9624. Nearfields are Adam A7s. I have sold off most of my pres, what remains is an early Millennia Quad preamp and two McCurdy M26001 preamps circa 1966. Sadly, I was forced to sell off two Langevin AM16s racked by JLM Audio, an SPL Gold Mic two channel pre and a True Systems 8 channel pre. Computer is an Asus P5b with a dual core Intel CPU with 4 gigs of ram. Despite it's limitations, my computer can easily deal with 40 tracks. DAW is Samplitude ProX 4 Suite, which is the newest part of my rig. Sold most of my mics too.......damn Covid. Can anyone here top my inventory of obsolete gear? cheers
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Post by ninworks on Mar 8, 2021 5:40:34 GMT -5
That is some nice gear! Who cares if it's old?! I still have an old computer. A 2 core, Pentium 5, running Windows XP Professional, I built myself, but all I use it for is a sound module. I have terabytes of sample libraries and virtual instruments that are all old and work very well on that computer. I use it basically as just a really bad-a$$ synthesizer and sampler. I have Pro Tools 8LE with a Digidesign M-Box Pro II on it as the digital interface. My main computer is a 2015 Sweetwater CS450 Creation Station with a 3.6 GHz, 8 core, Xeon processor with 16GB RAM. I have a UAD PCIe card in it that allows me to use the UAD plugins of which I have about 20 of. The interface I have on it is a Focusrite 18i20 of which I bypass the A/D converters and use the ones in my Focusrite ISA428 mic pre, whenever possible. I have the audio from the M-Box on the P5 connected and sync'd to the 18i20 via an S/PDIF connection. The ISA428 is digitally connected to the 18i20 via ADAT Lightpipe with a TOS link fiber optic cable. I have a number of old microphones as well as some newer ones. I have an old Sony ECM33 condenser from the late 70s, an AKG D12E from the late 70's, and a couple of Senheiser MD 421's from the late 70's, and a Neumann U89 from the mid 80's. I have some Shure SM57's and a SM58 from the 90's. All the rest of my mics are 2005 or newer. I have a Motu MIDI Express MIDI patch bay from the early 2000's. I still have my Lexicon PCM70 reverb that I bought new in the mid 80's but I seldom use it anymore. Mostly, I use it when tracking vocals just to add some ambience when monitoring the mic in the headphone mix. I don't print it to the track. The reverb in it sounds marvelous and much better than any of the plugins I have but it is quite noisy. I may patch it back into the recording chain at some point. It really does outshine any of my plugins for reverbs. The controllability of the reverbs is astounding. I still have my old Otari MX5050 8SD 1/2" tape machine as well as late 70's A3440 TEAC 4 track 1/4" reel to reel machine. Both of those are going to be patched back into the system to resume some tape transfers to digital starting this week. I baked some old tapes yesterday in preparation for the first round of this leg of the transfers. So, I'm ready to start. I have a mid 80's Yamaha KX88 MIDI keyboard controller as well as a 1st generation Yamaha DX7 I use as controllers. I also have a vintage 1974 Moog Minimoog Model D that I bought in 1978. I am the second owner. I refurbished it a number of years ago and it looks and works almost like a new one. It stays in an Anvil road case in the closet most of the time. I have plugins that do that very well. I should probably sell it and buy a new truck.
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Post by roly on Mar 8, 2021 7:06:48 GMT -5
I believe I have been toped Mr. Works...:>(
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Post by rickyguitar on Mar 12, 2021 3:31:44 GMT -5
most of my gear, at this point, is about 15 years old. You guys win.
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Post by oldfartbassplayrwalt on Mar 12, 2021 21:18:26 GMT -5
Proud owner of a new Tascam DP24, but I have a Teac 3340 SimulSync four track from 1975. Still works, but have to hand-start the reel... Also a 1970-ish Radio Shack 9V 4 input mixer (1/4" jacks). Got too noisy, so I stripped the guts out and made it passive... (OK, I actually used a mid 70s Teac M-06ST 6 channel mixer for real work) Some good bass stuff, though: acquired in 1972, my '71 Jazz Bass is still my go-to instrument but my '67 Craptone bass is still around, though it was sliced in half, covered with 1/4" of shellac, and put out in the sun by my brother: the pizza-faced bass
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Post by oldfartbassplayrwalt on Mar 14, 2021 16:55:01 GMT -5
Proud owner of a new Tascam DP24, but I have a Teac 2340 SimulSync four track from 1975. Still works, though I have to hand-start the reel... Also a 1970-ish Radio Shack 9V 4 input mixer (1/4" jacks). Got too noisy, so I stripped the guts out and made it passive... (OK, I actually used a mid 70s Teac M-06ST 6 channel mixer for real work) Some good bass stuff, though: acquired in 1972, my '71 Jazz Bass is still my go-to instrument but my '67 Craptone bass is still around, though it was sliced in half, covered with 1/4" of shellac, and put out in the sun by my brother: the pizza-faced bass
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Post by zenland on Apr 4, 2021 11:17:30 GMT -5
What happened to the finish on the bass or was it meant to look like that?
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