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Originally Posted by auddoc  Speaking of caps and such. One thing I always thought odd was why everybody thought the middle series Neves ( 8036?, etc- the one with the hospital-blue colour scheme) sounded really great .....with a boatload of NE5532' and 4's and those nasty-sounding tantelum caps throughout the entire design. They ( tants) are not just used as power supply bypass, as was common in that era, but are actually in the signal path instead of electrolytics.These are not to be confused with the older discrete, 1081 Eq-laden desks which of course, do sound really fab. I may have the model number wrong, but it's whatever model board is at Bryan Adam's Warehouse studios. |
Hi
There's more than a smidgen of misinformation in this post.
Why did folk think they sounded great? ... because they did sound great! But great to one man's ears are crap to another's!
No, not any of the RAF Blue grey consoles like the 8036... the TDA1034 (predecessor to the 5534) didn't show up until after they went Extra Dark Sea Grey (New appearance design) around 1975/6.
They didn't appear until late models of the 8058/68/78. I don't know where you get the "later (as in 1972) 1081 desks which sound great"... your timeline is crooked!
And you won't find 5532's in any of them!
The tantalum capacitors are great, have very low leakage, the 1073, 1081 and all the favourite modules are full of tants and a damn good job too. Tants should not be used for power supply decoupling without a big series resistor...
Put aluminium electrolytics where the tants are and the sound goes down the toilet.
Yes, you have the modules wrong and most of the post is your opinion which, of course, you are entitled to.
Bryan Adam's console is the third of the AIR consoles that's bi-polar supply and full of 5534's and tantalums. It sounds great, does it not?
