The Gambles have storage unit and I'm quoting a family member "of 60% of what was at 309" the remaining salvageable stuff from the fire. Some gear and other things were given away after the insurance claim was settled, but for the most part the contents that was salvageable from the fire was put into storage. Hope this helps quell some fears.

But why was it not a good idea to bring Bon Jovi to your studio? Or why was this guy the wrong one to do it?

Thank you 😊

Next guy in session: "who the HECK was using this stuff before, the settings are CRAZY..." then proceeds to find tons of new sounds from your son's settings

So sweet lol Most cats would be so tight about touching gear. Seems like a great guy. Great story for a killer mixer and great guy

Basicly he just wanted the room for acoustics and the monitors?

You’re stories is Awesome

Do you still sale audio gear I need a Rane crossover

That story is hilarious because those guys down Jamaica really think everything grows on trees up here in America 🤣

Thank they was from south philly and they had a dj on the wheels of steel

Pretty sure all that gear went straight to the Dump

Are the proac really worth it? I was thinking of getting the pmc 6.

I enjoyed the story. However, I volunteer at homeless shelters and meal kitchens. Please don't use "homeless" as a generic term for any violent and destructive vagrant, or someone without shelter who may just have been arrested near an arson in order to close out a case report.

Awesome thanks

I love the old phone.

Peace be to you, Music is the language in Heaven. It is written. I simplified my stand alone consolettes I use 3 aw2400's from Yamaha with y96k's from Waves. Custom, recall 100mm flying faders by Alpin. They can also interface to anything Protools, Cakewalk, Innuendo, logic. Via midi cc you run your dmx or beyond with it too. Mac, pc no matter linux based OS Got rid of stacks amps etc. Line 6 x3 pro righteous tones Bose L1 Model 2's for stereo Tones with subs. I love vintage. Just not the repair or cost. Neve Massenberg eq Gerzon eq with auto pultecing Bob Ludwig stuff compressors. And everyone has turned coomer cam retard. No one to record. Music is a sick ai joke now. I spread The Full Gospel instead. Elijah on earth with The Metatron

And yet despite all this amazingly pristine clear equipment we stream music (well someone speaking from a rhyming dictionary) to the masses in crappy sub standard audio. Somehow I think we had it so much better in the 70's and 80's. 🤔

Love is the Message....if you Know you know.

they must have dun well , the console is giant ,. top place , nice

Wow!!

Absolutely magnificent 😮

Gorgeous place

jeepers....quite the place.

1:00 Kimmel Center.

“They did a decent amount of work there…?”

I have these and I've produced an entire audio dramatisation of The War of the Worlds with them in 5.1 and stereo, including work on Doctor Who. Obviously these were used in conjunction with IK ARC room correction. They were fantastic! I don't know why you found them so terrible since they are THX pm3 certified and used at Skywalker Sound during the 2000's.

Are some of those pictures of the Sigma Sound Studios, 212 North 12th? Was there an actual recording studio in the Philly International building, 309 South Broad St.? Or am I getting them confused?

So you have pics of mci 400 console and jh16 and 24 series multi track machines. Then you mention an otari concept and an mtr90? The mtr90 is a solid machine, but its not really worth a treasure hunt

I also did this comparison and agree analog summing makes about the least difference of anything you can do in terms of swapping analog processing for digital. On the other hand putting preamps on your 2 bus is a different story but far more important is analog eq and compression I think is where analog still has the biggest advantage.

AI is for lazy/ignorants or it is just for a kid

A bunch of people are searching for this storage container starting tomorrow

I'm reminded of the meme where monkeys refuse to climb a ladder to reach a banana because generations ago a researcher shocked the monkeys that tried to do that and those monkeys are now dead but the fear lives on...

Call me a killjoy but anybody sets a cup of liquid down on/near a console is getting a stern talking to ! Just looking at those pics made me nervous 😅

Lets hope it wasn't left in the building before the demo...

Time for a treasure hunt, eh?

Great story!

The two men you speak of are my dad and uncle, Walt and Andy. Thanks for sharing this story!

i just picked up a sound-craft series four 48 channel with 4 full stereo channels making it 52 channels i would say for nothing ,. mic pre-s sound god-like , fat low end , punchy and warm the 80-s 90-s high end pro sound live boards, why because there built like absolute tanks and can be installed into the studio / im connecting it tho,, to, a 56 channel Gamble EX 56 to make = the master super console of 108 channels ,. :) ‘

I'd imagine some of the big studio complexes in LA have a bunch of old stuff that they can't really get rid of for accounting reasons.

I'd been watching a Neve Capricorn on eBay be relisted for months .. essentially a £450k desk failing to fetch £2k today .

I once saw a Pearl Jam cover band beat an all original band of talented musicians that wrote all their own songs and performed them well.

Not smart, yelling at the guy who is your gear hookup! I guess once these "stars" get to a certain level they sometimes lose perspective.

I have actually went this route. The only thing you can be doing to the audio in summing is either degrading the audio a bit, or with a different transformer darken or brighten up the sound. As far as stereo image goes, As we all know that all comes into play with where consoles started. Like one channel slightly bleeding into another channel or one channel is slightly off creating a natural phase but in a good way lol. The list goes on and on. The difference is so minute that even if it does make a difference, A really good engineer can achieve this sound in the box with plugins. To me it was a journey and I learned a lot. I do not use summing mixers anymore. I do use analog gear on the way in but mostly mix down in the box. Plugins are amazing. They literally made me sell of thousands of dollars worth of analog gear. I say this. Do what you think sounds best. Everyone's ears are different and some people can hear in different ways. I will say a tape machine changes everything but that's a whole other argument lol.

George when did you started in Pro audio? Also do you play any instruments?

Did you say Bob “Morley”?😂😂😂 Also, they were NOT in Bob Marley’s band!!

That cow's got chops

I really enjoyed this story, and the A/B of the tracks! I think there's a common shared experience that resonates about "that one original band" from back in the day that were so good but never got into the studio! It's a familiar theme that pokes me in the nostalgia! At the heart of it, I think it's why recording music it's so compelling, and probably why we do it. To capture performances for posterity and have an artifact to share, beyond the moment it was performed, to make something immortal. That's the best use of a favor! Thanks! Cheers!

yeah man, nice track. Can definitely hear the reason you'd listen to that live recording. They've got a thing.

Well, if you've ever been to pro audio design.....kinda looks like that. Massive warehouse, FULL of all kinds of odds and ends.

You are retarded if you think summing mixers are voodoo and just take money from you