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Old 15th May 2008, 08:20 PM   #13
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Originally Posted by JohnRoberts View Post
Among other things, it's proprly spelled "bus".

"Buss" is a verb.
A buss station is where a buss stops;
a workstation is where a work stops.

Back in 70'th when I once needed to record some band I used very straight approach: one rotary pot for sensitivity (10K) and 3 sliding 100K potentiometers per channel: left, right, reverb. Summing amps (all 3 of them) were made on one nuvistor and couple of PNP transistors each. It was very cheap and clean sounding device made of aluminium angles; I even did not cover sliding pots bolting them open to angles, tightly to each other. The band had a vocal amp, but I did not use it, instead I made mic pres with medium power input transistors; instrumental inputs I took from preamps of their instrumental amps. Since I had 4 mic pres only I've recorded drums and instruments a first, adding vocal later...

It's funny to remember that days, but the result was great per a rouble spent!
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