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White Falcon · 21st May 2009

And Babel Fish says:

Exercise of style conceived without concession nor limit of budget by the engineers of Philips (of which the future inventor of CD) for the Polygram studios, she proposes since 1974 a compressor/spoils by way, house creation which inspired much SSL, as well as an automation by VCA of transfer and the faders! It is quadraphonic (equipped with a system of coding 4 into 2, precursor of Dolby Stereo), has 32 buses, and has the first electronic system of routing by posting in the world. In other words, each way is equipped with two wheels coders: if one wishes to send it on departure 21, it is necessary to place the first on “2” and the second on “1”. This system exempts to establish 32 switches on the section (but impossible the assignment of the same section makes on several tracks, NDR). As for panoramic, in fact joysticks make it possible to explore the four directions. The returns of multitrack are ensured by a section “monitor” separated, deprived of equalization: the concept in-line did not exist yet! The console can thus accomodate 56 modulations in mixing (32+24). Its correctors include high-pass (from 20 to 400 Hz), low-pass (of 2 Khz with 20 Khz), serious Baxendall (35 to 350 Hz), acute Baxendall (1 to 12 Khz), just as a parametric “truth” (+-20 dB, Q from 0,2 to 10). It has seven departures effect, of which three serve as “foldback” (listening helmet), and four returns réverb (mono, at the time). The management of the statutes of track (“input”, reading, synchronous reading) as well as the preparation in recording is carried out since the console. Its ergonomics is particularly studied: the profit (72 dB!) is located in bottom of the section, the various inscriptions and items zero of the potentiometers are always directed towards the etc, sound engineer and not upwards The levels of multitrack are not indicated by Monitors ordinary, but visualized on monitor by a system of video bargraphes, manufactured by NTP, with change of color according to the statute of the track (Safe, Ready, Record). The audio remote control of the 24 tracks and the NTP is included in the console. Another rare characteristic: this one has the Multitrack system which allows, in configuration recording, to listen to the superposition of the signal already present on the 24, read by the head of synchro, and the direct sound (i.e. microphones or instruments connected to the console) without “change” of level at the time of the drop, where however, from only one blow, the return of the recorded signal comes to be added to the direct signal, which means +6 dB in listening… World and expensive exclusiveness, passing by a circuit of “intelligent” attenuation! Last characteristic: the console does not rest on the ground by four feet, but it “is suspended” by a system of beams, dissimulated inside, U-shaped of which one of the branches rests on the ground and other supports the sections themselves. Consequently, the console gives the impression “to float”, because it seems to touch the ground only one side, that of the curve of U. This “vacuum” makes it possible to avoid certain problems involved in the standing waves. The patch 12x32 points also holds him of the museum piece: it is with the Tüschel standard, cumbersome but indestructible, and occupies a good part of a wall of the cabin.

Clouseau anyone...

21st May 2009	#4
White Falcon Gear maniac Joined: Feb 2009 Location: Discordia Posts: 264	And Babel Fish says: Exercise of style conceived without concession nor limit of budget by the engineers of Philips (of which the future inventor of CD) for the Polygram studios, she proposes since 1974 a compressor/spoils by way, house creation which inspired much SSL, as well as an automation by VCA of transfer and the faders! It is quadraphonic (equipped with a system of coding 4 into 2, precursor of Dolby Stereo), has 32 buses, and has the first electronic system of routing by posting in the world. In other words, each way is equipped with two wheels coders: if one wishes to send it on departure 21, it is necessary to place the first on “2” and the second on “1”. This system exempts to establish 32 switches on the section (but impossible the assignment of the same section makes on several tracks, NDR). As for panoramic, in fact joysticks make it possible to explore the four directions. The returns of multitrack are ensured by a section “monitor” separated, deprived of equalization: the concept in-line did not exist yet! The console can thus accomodate 56 modulations in mixing (32+24). Its correctors include high-pass (from 20 to 400 Hz), low-pass (of 2 Khz with 20 Khz), serious Baxendall (35 to 350 Hz), acute Baxendall (1 to 12 Khz), just as a parametric “truth” (+-20 dB, Q from 0,2 to 10). It has seven departures effect, of which three serve as “foldback” (listening helmet), and four returns réverb (mono, at the time). The management of the statutes of track (“input”, reading, synchronous reading) as well as the preparation in recording is carried out since the console. Its ergonomics is particularly studied: the profit (72 dB!) is located in bottom of the section, the various inscriptions and items zero of the potentiometers are always directed towards the etc, sound engineer and not upwards The levels of multitrack are not indicated by Monitors ordinary, but visualized on monitor by a system of video bargraphes, manufactured by NTP, with change of color according to the statute of the track (Safe, Ready, Record). The audio remote control of the 24 tracks and the NTP is included in the console. Another rare characteristic: this one has the Multitrack system which allows, in configuration recording, to listen to the superposition of the signal already present on the 24, read by the head of synchro, and the direct sound (i.e. microphones or instruments connected to the console) without “change” of level at the time of the drop, where however, from only one blow, the return of the recorded signal comes to be added to the direct signal, which means +6 dB in listening… World and expensive exclusiveness, passing by a circuit of “intelligent” attenuation! Last characteristic: the console does not rest on the ground by four feet, but it “is suspended” by a system of beams, dissimulated inside, U-shaped of which one of the branches rests on the ground and other supports the sections themselves. Consequently, the console gives the impression “to float”, because it seems to touch the ground only one side, that of the curve of U. This “vacuum” makes it possible to avoid certain problems involved in the standing waves. The patch 12x32 points also holds him of the museum piece: it is with the Tüschel standard, cumbersome but indestructible, and occupies a good part of a wall of the cabin. Clouseau anyone...