I GOT THIS CONSOLE FOR FREE NOW WE MAKE IT WORK - NEW FANS, MORE DSP!!! LAWO MC2 82 EP.7

[@dragonheadthing]

I really love how that console looks! I have no need for more than two channels but if I had the room I'd get a console like that to just look at all of those neat buttons all day.

[@tobitweaks]

You should get a console for free, too ;) All the best, Tobi

[@Whiteseastudio]

I love this series!

[@tobitweaks]

Happy to have you on board ;) Thanks and all the best, Tobi

[@Whiteseastudio]

@@tobitweaks It works in a nostalgic way for me, I see a lot of the same struggles from when I was restoring my Neumann console. Although it's a completely different console, it's interesting to see that the method of restoring the glory of such a console is the same for a digital one as it is for an analog one.

[@tobitweaks]

@Whiteseastudio I thought so, too! Maybe as it is early digital it is still close to the analog consoles in terms of concept? Anyways I actually think about your Seem Console Project a lot and wonder what exactly was missing. The Bus Amplifiers? My Friends from Noway love these consoles :) All the best, Tobi

[@ocularrecords]

White Sea! Avid fan of your channel. Glad to see you here too. Great Series!

[@funkyvogelfutter3147]

I love it ... thank you for sharing ... mmh Windows NT 4 ...the beep sound is amazing ... pure retro 🙂 ... so nice to see this .. thanks

[@marcdeschryver7687]

Another great, interesting and fun video…. Keep them coming. I really enjoy see your progress on this amazing console! 😀

[@tobitweaks]

Ohhh thank you so much!! All the best, Tobi

[@snoopy4ever]

Just Amazing!!! .. Tobias .. hats off to you !! it's just amazing .. all the work you've done.. all the details you gave to us... I've enjoyed as if I were the one who did it.. I just LOVE those DSP's and cards.. and external computers.. and the way you managed to put them to work again !!!!!..... I know some carts are still on the OLD PCI slot format... just wondering if you could like try to use a more modern Motherboard an use a PCI to PCI-X adapter and see if you can make it work ... just wondering. Thanks a lot !! viele Danke Tobias!!!

[@tobitweaks]

What a sweet comment right there! I know of a System of this kind that uses modern motherboards…maybe I‘ll do the same at some point. Right now I really like the 19“ Rack format of these old computers! Thanks and all the best, Tobi

[@marcusfischer7156]

Love the content. Please check that the static pressure of the new Fans is enough. Low noise Fans don't push as much cfm as the old ones and you will not get enough airflow to cool the Equipment and might cause a sooner death than wanted.

[@mudi2000a]

Very good point. Also when mounting the stuff in a cabinet with doors you need to take care that the cabinet is well ventilated or just don’t use a door. I worked some time in place where we had a data center and we used only doors with holes for the air circulation.

[@tobitweaks]

I‘ll check everything with a thermal camera to make sure nothing overheats. Most Heat right now comes from the DSPs in the IBM Mainframe - these only have the Fans in the case that originally wait for 60* air temperature before they spin up 🤔 More on that in the next episodes! Thank you for your tips and all the best, Tobi

[@McCavity2]

Oh boy when was the last time I saw Windows NT - or ATM networking ❤ Thanks for taking me on a trip into the past ❤

[@tobitweaks]

Very welcome! You seem to know more than me :) All the best, Tobi

[@McCavity2]

@@tobitweaks Nah, that knowledge is long gone… I used to run my home PC on Windows NT for a long time before eventually switching to XP and ATM was an important topic on my first job assignment - but not on Windows but rather on Sun Solaris and Sinix / Reliant Unix (the Siemens Spinoff)… but as I said: these times are long gone and I haven’t touched either technology ever since. It‘s a bit unfortunate as it is really interesting and quite powerful - we used to be able to do QoS (traffic shaping) back at the end of the 90‘s over ATM lines which was otherwise unheard of at that time - but today it’s largely being obsoleted by both FibreChannel and, even more so, good ol’ Ethernet. Your average run-of-the-mill home router is more powerful today than the ATM switches we used back then. :-)

[@quadmods]

SHARK’s were common to use post Motorola 5600 series era, very powerful. Harrison comes to mind used SHARK in there earlier digital consoles. Cheers 👍

[@tobitweaks]

Amazing! Studio Paradiso in Oslo using a Harrison digital desk is a huge inspiration for me to install this desk in a recording studio aswell :) Thanks and all the best, Tobi

[@tcdontplay4914]

this is amazing!!

[@mickikaufman5360]

This is so cool! For fine-tuning the dynamics and EQ, perhaps there is a ‘SHIFT’ or ‘FINE/COARSE’ key or the equivalent that lets u change the modes of the encoder potentiometers to provide a finer resolution? The Tascam DM series has a similar ability - when u hold down the SHIFT key the encoder knobs are .1 the resolution.

[@tobitweaks]

Great Tip! I‘ll check that. I know older analog equalizers for german broadcast had 2dB steps…still 0.5 dB would be super nice! Thanks and all the best, Tobi

[@christiantorma2440]

Du Glückspilz ❤ aber bei dir ist das Ding scheinbar auch in den richtigen Händen 👍👍👍freue mich auf mehr 😊✌️

[@tobitweaks]

Vielen Dank! Beste Grüße, Tobi

[@nicoodoricoAW]

Amazing work man ! Thanks for sharing !

[@tobitweaks]

Very welcome! Thanks and all the best, Tobi

[@woodyTM]

I like seeing this content, especially seeing weird or obscure equipment with hardly any published documentation. We would actually enjoy seeing you do some proper production/mixdowns on this rig.

[@tobitweaks]

Oh I will definetly mix on this!!! Thanks and all the best, Tobi

[@OverKillPlusOne]

Noctua makes some of the quietest fans. I’ve got machines with noctua fans that have a decade of run time, besides cleaning them, no maintenance.

[@tobitweaks]

Hmm somebody recommended these fans to me before…will def look at them :) Thanks and all the best, Tobi

[@jangerhard4039]

I‘d buy any UAD card you could get to have enough space SHARCS for futute replacement. And you need a friend with a reflow station :)

[@tobitweaks]

I could actually try to transplant these from now cheap firewire DSP systems 🤔 But I‘d still need to check with my broken DSP Clusters if it is the chips gone bad or any other component on these clusters (Capacitors / Resistors). Oh and I’ll continue watching northridge fix here on youtube until I feel brave enough to try it myself 🤣 Thanks and all the best, Tobi

[@ChristopherWoods]

​@@tobitweaks I'm now imagining him opening a video with half this console on his desk 😁 best of luck getting the remaining DSP going!

[@Freshmaker966]

Du hast den Lüfter bei min 15:00 falsch rum reingebaut. Der saugt jetzt gegen den Kühlkörper und bläst nicht. Oder es ist ein extrem seltenes Exemplar, welches die Streben des Motors an der saugenden Seite hat ;)

[@tobitweaks]

Du könntest absolut recht haben! Danke fürs aufmerksam schauen, ich überprüfe das. Womöglich hast du dir ein Eis verdient ;) Dank und Gruß, Tobi

[@TBD3.0]

Congrats she's a beauty. 👍

[@rhfweb]

Virtualize all those servers with something like proxmox to a single modern box?

[@tobitweaks]

Promox? I am thinking about doing a similar thing with a Linux based system maybe…Thanks and all the best, Tobi

[@krupljanin2006]

yea, basicly he could have all in one chasis and control with only one interface, only bad side is the noise of the server, usualy they are extra loud...

[@nilswegner2881]

​@@tobitweaksProxmox is Linux based so no worries...

[@AndersHellquist]

​@@tobitweaksProxmox is debian+kvm and a nice admin interface so check it out.

[@serpent213]

@@tobitweaks Proxmox is a Linux-based VM management solution. Works quite well, set it up myself recently. Uses Qemu for VMs and allows PCI pass through.

[@0xbenedikt]

By the way, where do the other screens go to? Does the PC in the control surface have three display outputs (which would be odd for how old it is), or is it done somehow else?

[@tobitweaks]

The PC in the Desk feeds the display to the right, the left display in the desk has its own boot sequence but no controls at all - Maybe another tiny computer in itself? Have not really digged into that as it just works :) Hooe that helps. Thanks for following along and all the best, Tobi

[@0xbenedikt]

@@tobitweaks Interesting. Thanks for the explanation. Always interesting to see pro gear that you could never afford (and probably wouldn't ever need for its 96 channels, as I am happy with a two input multi track recorder). Great job restoring the mixing console!

[@bulletfaceLP]

Are these Monitors from Lawo as well by any chance?

[@tobitweaks]

You mean the displays? I‘d have to check but I know Lawo is still producing this kind of stuff for busses :) The loudspeakers are Hecco. Hope that helps! All the best, Tobi

[@bulletfaceLP]

Ahhh, i meant the loudspeakers. Zhese look kind of similar to some lawo speakers im thinking of buying.

[@tobitweaks]

@@bulletfaceLP Oh speakers from Lawo? I only know the very small „Kontrollautsprecher“ they did that are inside the consoles…I love them they are a great alternative to Auratones :) Hope that helps. All the best, Tobi

[@bulletfaceLP]

@@tobitweaks Ah thanks for the info. these seem to be medium sized Studiomonitor. But they are old enough, that even Lawo doesnt know shit about them anymore.

[@TheFaeder]

In the end of 2023: Uh, an used lawo, maybe I can buy it. Some month later: Uh, the announce is still there, but actually I'm in tour and I don't know how to take and where to put it. Today: Open KZbin, suggestions... Uhm, i think i already saw that desk somewhere... 😄

[@tobitweaks]

Haha I got the Lawo in Summer 2023 - maybe you meant End of 2022? This console was supposedly on sale for 3 Years. Hope that helps! All the best, Tobi

[@MartinGod3992]

Instead of IDE to SATA have you thought about ones to CF or SD cards? They tend to be what ive seen people change old spinning rust in Mac restorations etc

[@tobitweaks]

Yes thought about it! They‘re more expensive thought afaik. Thanks and all the best, Tobi

[@JoakimKanon]

If you have the room for it, stick to SSD. They are cheap nowadays, and are so much faster and more reliable than memory cards.

[@dannybloe]

Love the series so far. Wonder what you will do with it when it’s done. You could improve a bit on your camera work though 😀😵‍💫🤮

[@tobitweaks]

Hi! Thank you so much for following! Also always open for constructive criticism on what it is that seems to make you feel dizzy :) Always happy to improve. All the best, Tobi

[@dannybloe]

@@tobitweaks Hiya Tobi. Best is to watch an episode yourself and try to be not yourself, as if you see it for the first time and you want to follow what you are pointing to with the camera. At times you almost fly over the equipment making it impossible to see what you mean or what you are refering while commenting. Probably enthousiasm 🙂

[@tobitweaks]

Okay will try a steadier camera work in the future! Thanks and all the best, Tobi

[@BrunodeSouzaLino]

I am sort of torn between the cool idea of having a console like that and not it being a good idea because of how much it costs to maintain and run one.

[@tobitweaks]

Hi! It depends on who is doing the maintenance but as these desk are actually supposed to be super maintenance free once they run (from what I heard) you‘d just be left with a power bill of 80cents per hour (2kWh) that could ramp up to 64€ per Month if you run this desk 20hrs/week. Bit also you need the space to operate this wich could also be considered „running costs“ ;) Hope that helps. All the best, Tobi

[@0xbenedikt]

You are going to make it much less reliable moving it to Windows 10, if it can be done at all

[@braianskate]

the hdd problem is solved with an ssd upgrade

[@tobitweaks]

Yes! I‘m on it :) All the best, Tobi

[@envisagefilmshouston]

Shit looks like a nightmare

[@tobitweaks]

a dream it seems for sure ;) All the best, Tobi

[@envisagefilmshouston]

@@tobitweaks what’s a lot of wiring to do brotha. Just go get a UAD pack X series you’ll be set. Probably sounds better than this dinosaur fossil

[@tobitweaks]

I have UAD already :) I think the idea with this is that it is in its minimum a 96 in 96 out Interface (imagine 96 mic preamps…) plus a great controller with 40 moving faders! Hope that helps. All the best, Tobi

[@envisagefilmshouston]

@@tobitweaks I don’t need 96 pres I guess is for what you need it for lol

[@720ppixel2]

Wo genau bekommt man so was for free frag für ein Freund? 😂

[@tobitweaks]

Kleinanzeigen :) Hoffe das hilft. Beste Grüße, Tobi