Sound Workshop - Vintage Studio Console rebuild - PART #1

[@amdenis]

I used to work there at Sound Workshop back in the 1970’s in Long Island, New York when I was in high school- beginning when it was just a garage/downstairs company. I was young, and wound up learning to do a wide range of things that began my pro audio journey.

[@100ThingsIDo]

Wow, maybe you had something to do with my Series 30! Hope your doing well and enjoyed the series of videos :D

[@amdenis]

@@100ThingsIDo Sure do enjoy, thanks- great vids man. It’s funny, it had been so long that a couple years ago I had forgotten a few of the people’s names I worked with, and had to look them up. The company put a LOT of effort into matching components across the entire board, wouldn’t split batches let along vendors and had us do averaging across everything from temperature to input voltage. They really cared a lot, and it made me realize how much of an art analog could be.

[@MyselfCollective]

This is a great project, looking forward to the rest of the episodes! :)

[@100ThingsIDo]

I have quite a bit filmed so should go for a while. I am at the point now where the console is pretty much working besides 2 mix strips, but the meter bridge needs some thought :D

[@colinstu]

Huge project! Didn't seem truly daunting until you started pulling units out.

[@100ThingsIDo]

Wait until you see once I have all the channel strips out. After a few days in I thought I had bitten off more than I could do (at the speed I needed to do it). :D

[@jesserickard1041]

I cant wait to see you refurbish this old board. pretty cool!

[@100ThingsIDo]

I'm come on significantly since I shot that at the end of last summer :D

[@digitaldesigner5284]

Very cool console.great project.

[@100ThingsIDo]

Thanks, I still use it all the time :D

[@jbowmanmusic]

Looks like a great project! Good luck!

[@100ThingsIDo]

It is, even now there is still a few things I want to do with it! Another 2 buckets of 8 would of made it perfect but you work with what you have :D

[@CrisBlyth]

good start mate !!

[@100ThingsIDo]

Hey Chris, thanks for checking out the clip. Hope your time in LA went well, chat soon :D

[@CrisBlyth]

100 Things I Do Oh, I’m still in LA.. do you think people might like a MFX video on the CMI channel ?

[@elcasho]

It begins!

[@100ThingsIDo]

8 months so far! ... 8 ... long..... months :D

[@domdraper3221]

Hey man are you good with the old electronics? I have an old Allen and heath series 8 and I did a full recap. One channel has a very quiet signal that only works if I smash the gain right up. Do you have any ideas what it could be?

[@100ThingsIDo]

Hey Dom, if I was to guess it would be either one of the Caps in that channel possibly could of been inserted in the wrong polarity .. or if not there will be some transistors or an OpAmp on the strip some place that possibly could be the problem! Hope that helps! :D

[@domdraper3221]

@@100ThingsIDo hey man cheers. I replaced all the caps again on that channel. I’ll get new op amps and try them. They are only a couple of € each. 👌

[@montysonful]

Looking for Part 2

[@100ThingsIDo]

Working on it :D

[@montysonful]

@@100ThingsIDo Good Luck

[@100ThingsIDo]

@@montysonful Hopefully out sometime this weekend ! :D

[@dr.feelicks2051]

Mmm, vintage hub for vintage grub. "Hear"s to headroom.

[@100ThingsIDo]

Nothing like some Vintage gear when its easy to maintain :D

[@dr.feelicks2051]

Back in the day I was on task wiring a vintage 16x4 1073 desk into the studio I worked at. Military grade audio modules! We bought it from local planetarium. No serious mileage. Lucky find. I make due with an Apollo now.

[@100ThingsIDo]

@@dr.feelicks2051 Yep, this is a completely mad luxury for me but I thought it would also be a great project and something to keep me inspired once I got it up and working. I'm finally back (after about 20 years) to being able to get most of the studio up and running at the same time and composing, using, and recording multiple sources at the same time to separate tracks without printing track by track.. In this way it is a fantastic investment :D

[@ZackYouTube]

I have the 1280b. Want to mod it for protools, not sure where to start.

[@100ThingsIDo]

There is a sound workshop facebook group thats worth Joining :D

[@antigen4]

managed to find myself a D&R console ....you want headroom - get yourself one of those!!! 28 dB above zero!!!!

[@100ThingsIDo]

Wow, 28db thats some serious load :D Hope you enjoy the series :D

[@antigen4]

yes very much thank you - i'm also fighting the HUGE temptation to buy a synclavier!!! ;P

[@100ThingsIDo]

@@antigen4 if you can afford it (and afford to keep it going) then do it! They are still super unique :D

[@antigen4]

the only barrier for me really was realizing they were essentially an FM synthesizer ... although what really sold me was the sheer quality of sound (!!). The only problem is that i already have something like 18 synthesizers haha - too much!! I need to concentrate on not futzing around but rather making music *sigh*

[@100ThingsIDo]

@@antigen4 Later versions also have sampling and resynthesis (sample a sound in and recreate in FM frames). It gets very advanced very fast.. but yes mine is 100% FM 8 voice! :D

[@virgilwilliams2378]

What is up with the creepy Law & Order background music. 😆

[@100ThingsIDo]

Hey Virgil, Something I wrote ecorded many years ago. I needed some background music and thought I would use it :D

[@virgilwilliams2378]

@@100ThingsIDo And you hiding this. This is good. It should be in some TV series, or a movie.

[@NicoIasTravolta]

Never hear about that brand.

[@100ThingsIDo]

Didn't last too long unfortunately, I believe Otari purchased them .. then Otari got purchased.... same old story of how good brands die :D

[@NicoIasTravolta]

​@@100ThingsIDo right. for the first time I see patch bay in mixer! It's nice ;)

[@deusexradio6943]

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