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Title: Frank Zappa Auction
Post by: farrokh747 on Fri, 4 Nov 2016 04:55
http://www.julienslive.com/view-auctions/catalog/id/192/?page=5

your chance to own some of Frank Zappa's kit....

fc
Title: Re: Frank Zappa Auction
Post by: Hardy Heinlin on Fri, 4 Nov 2016 06:28
The Neve mixing console is nice ...


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Title: Re: Frank Zappa Auction
Post by: emerydc8 on Fri, 4 Nov 2016 07:11
Current bid for the Strat -- $55,000? Wow. You could buy a lot of Steve Morse Signature guitars for that -- and, unlike the Strat, they will actually stay in tune.
Title: Re: Frank Zappa Auction
Post by: farrokh747 on Sat, 5 Nov 2016 04:59
You know an entire era had come to an end when they start selling the furniture....
Title: Re: Frank Zappa Auction
Post by: emerydc8 on Sat, 5 Nov 2016 05:31
Sad. He was a brilliant musician.
Title: Re: Frank Zappa Auction
Post by: farrokh747 on Sun, 6 Nov 2016 10:05
QuoteHe was a brilliant musician

So true - Inca Roads still knocks me out......

It would have been great to hear his commentary on the 2016 US elections and the Donald....

Title: Re: Frank Zappa Auction
Post by: martin on Mon, 7 Nov 2016 09:06
Quote from: farrokh747It would have been great to hear his commentary on the 2016 US elections and the Donald....

There's an iconic poster of Mr Z. (hint: title rhymes) which might do the job, methinks... 

Martin

Title: Re: Frank Zappa Auction
Post by: farrokh747 on Sun, 1 Jan 2017 11:45
https://youtu.be/YYVXWnTkBQA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLIYcE61Cjk&t=12s

I believe Lady Gaga has bought the house.....

fc
Title: Re: Frank Zappa Auction
Post by: farrokh747 on Thu, 2 Mar 2017 19:20
http://www.goldminemag.com/news/auctioneer-pink-floyd-console

http://www.bonhams.com/auctions/23878/lot/35/

now some floyd....
Title: Re: Frank Zappa Auction
Post by: Hardy Heinlin on Thu, 2 Mar 2017 20:10
Good old times ... in the 1980s I occassionally worked in a studio that was equipped with another mixing console previously used by Pink Floyd; that was a bit "newer" and was fitted with "modern" flat faders already (no "thrust lever" style) and with fader automation. However: no motors, just VCAs. And still, Pink Floyd weren't happy with the VCAs, so they replaced all those electronic faders by pure "biological" passive faders. No wishiwashi. Just cables :-)


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Title: Re: Frank Zappa Auction
Post by: farrokh747 on Fri, 15 Sep 2017 17:55
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-41276669

one more.... get in touch with your inner Hrundi V. Bakshi ...

fc
Title: Re: Frank Zappa Auction
Post by: farrokh747 on Sat, 12 May 2018 18:42
anyone...?

https://www.prosoundnetwork.com/recording/air-studios-up-for-sale


Title: Re: Frank Zappa Auction
Post by: Hardy Heinlin on Sat, 12 May 2018 23:46
Nice windows.
Title: Re: Frank Zappa Auction
Post by: farrokh747 on Tue, 27 Nov 2018 14:04
https://news.justcollecting.com/led-zeppelin-stairway-to-heaven-recording-console-bonhams-auction/?fbclid=IwAR3miYWdzswuX1aouzbSXhkGvoAWD8QiUzyFunP-Q20HprTgzRr5AKFp740

one more board up for sale....

fc
Title: Re: Frank Zappa Auction
Post by: Jeroen Hoppenbrouwers on Wed, 28 Nov 2018 01:17
(about 90% off topic)

These days, I often use this kind of mixing consoles as an illustration on how not to manage projects. If you don't hear an instrument, do not reach for the slider and increase its volume (increase task priority). You will end up, very very soon, with all sliders maxed out. Everything is High Priority. Everything is on fire.

Been there, done that, in my brief stint as 'audio engineer' of a band of students. It was more 'loudness engineering', I admit.

I also invented the other approach... one by one, pull down all sliders until they are all at zero except for the vocals, and still the house manager asked to not make it so loud... after which I pointed at the console... it's all coming from the stage, man...


Hoppie
Title: Re: Frank Zappa Auction
Post by: Hardy Heinlin on Wed, 28 Nov 2018 08:09
Now you need to explain what your "hear-the-instrument" metaphor refers to :-)

Is it "find-the-fault"?


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Title: Re: Frank Zappa Auction
Post by: Jeroen Hoppenbrouwers on Wed, 28 Nov 2018 09:27
Task priority in a too small team of engineers... If you do it wrong, you add tasks and increase priorities, but you never have the guts to cut something out and let it die for the greater good of the new priorities. Probably a case of sunken cost fallacy?    :-)

Similar to giving up building A during a fire to save building B.

Hoppie
Title: Re: Frank Zappa Auction
Post by: Hardy Heinlin on Wed, 28 Nov 2018 10:15
Ah ... task priority ...

Fortunately, in sound mixing, to make a certain sound source more dominant, you can vary many more parameters than just the volume alone. And that's actually the main art in sound mixing. It's like painting with different colors. Not just with the brightness of the colors, but also with their hue and saturation. And then comes the structure of the colored objects. Large, simple structures paired with a small, complex structure and so on. And then comes the mix of sharp and blurred objects. And repetitions. Build various priority levels by using volume, color, structure, texture, blur, repetitions etc.

(30% off topic)


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Title: Re: Frank Zappa Auction
Post by: farrokh747 on Sat, 2 Sep 2023 17:06
now freddie...

https://www.sothebys.com/en/videos/inside-sothebys-the-making-of-freddie-mercury-a-world-of-his-own

Title: Re: Frank Zappa Auction
Post by: Bluestar on Sun, 3 Sep 2023 04:18
I have two guitars of note, a 1935 Martin OM that belonged to my grandfather and a '67 Telecaster with a Fender Champ amp (tubes).  I went to a Jeff Beck concert a few years back and he was using two Fender Champs.  I've got other guitars, but these are the main one's.

Back in the '60s I played and sang a lot but gave it up because I couldn't make my voice sound like Don Everly. 🤣
Title: Re: Frank Zappa Auction
Post by: Hardy Heinlin on Sun, 3 Sep 2023 05:30
Quote from: Bluestar on Sun,  3 Sep 2023 04:18I have two guitars of note, a 1935 Martin OM that belonged to my grandfather and a '67 Telecaster with a Fender Champ amp (tubes).  I went to a Jeff Beck concert a few years back and he was using two Fender Champs.  I've got other guitars, but these are the main one's.
Back in the '60s I played and sang a lot but gave it up because I couldn't make my voice sound like Don Everly. 🤣

Jeff Beck ... great musician ... very innovative ...
Title: Re: Frank Zappa Auction
Post by: Bluestar on Sun, 3 Sep 2023 21:59
Quote from: Hardy Heinlin on Sun,  3 Sep 2023 05:30Jeff Beck ... great musician ... very innovative ...

It has been fun watching Jeff reincarnate himself every few years. 🤣

I really liked his "Emotion and Commotion" and "Rock 'n' Roll Party" albums.
Title: Re: Frank Zappa Auction
Post by: farrokh747 on Mon, 27 Nov 2023 13:43
And now the Abbey Road console... 

https://www.rollingstone.co.uk/music/the-beatles-abbey-road-recording-console-to-be-auctioned-off-34449/

fc
Title: Re: Frank Zappa Auction
Post by: Hardy Heinlin on Mon, 27 Nov 2023 14:10
Might be something for a museum -- or for software engineers that want to analyse the console's filters and amps to simulate its sound by a digitial add-on for digital music production ... Then just download the add-on for 100 bucks :-)


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