http://www.julienslive.com/view-auctions/catalog/id/192/?page=5
your chance to own some of Frank Zappa's kit....
fc
The Neve mixing console is nice ...
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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.
You know an entire era had come to an end when they start selling the furniture....
Sad. He was a brilliant musician.
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....
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
https://youtu.be/YYVXWnTkBQA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLIYcE61Cjk&t=12s
I believe Lady Gaga has bought the house.....
fc
http://www.goldminemag.com/news/auctioneer-pink-floyd-console
http://www.bonhams.com/auctions/23878/lot/35/
now some floyd....
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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http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-41276669
one more.... get in touch with your inner Hrundi V. Bakshi ...
fc
anyone...?
https://www.prosoundnetwork.com/recording/air-studios-up-for-sale
Nice windows.
https://news.justcollecting.com/led-zeppelin-stairway-to-heaven-recording-console-bonhams-auction/?fbclid=IwAR3miYWdzswuX1aouzbSXhkGvoAWD8QiUzyFunP-Q20HprTgzRr5AKFp740
one more board up for sale....
fc
(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
Now you need to explain what your "hear-the-instrument" metaphor refers to :-)
Is it "find-the-fault"?
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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
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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now freddie...
https://www.sothebys.com/en/videos/inside-sothebys-the-making-of-freddie-mercury-a-world-of-his-own
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. 🤣
Quote from: Bluestar on Sun, 3 Sep 2023 03:18I 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 ...
Quote from: Hardy Heinlin on Sun, 3 Sep 2023 04:30Jeff 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.
And now the Abbey Road console...
https://www.rollingstone.co.uk/music/the-beatles-abbey-road-recording-console-to-be-auctioned-off-34449/
fc
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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Abbey Road Studio tour:
https://youtu.be/5HtA-vvXTKo
(The part with the thrust quadrant starts at 37:00.)