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| Lives for gear | Jim Messina's Private Studio - a Tonelux "work in progress"
Out with the old, in with the new!! Singer-songwriter-producer-engineer extraordinaire Jim Messina moves out his old Soundcraft 2400 to make room for a new custom 32 channel Tonelux console. Paul Wolff spent some time there last week helping Jim put it all together. Check out the photos and story-so-far here: http://www.tonelux.com/messina.html Here's a pic of the semi-loaded frame (and yes, those are API EQs in the right bucket) |
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| Lives for gear Joined: Oct 2003
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Wipes drool from chin. |
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I saw this in his site the other day...way cool!!
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| Gear maniac Joined: Jan 2006 Location: MXDF/SATX
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Sweet Jesus... that's going to be bee-yoo-tiful once the paneling is installed.... Is anybody in Austin, TX or Mexico, DF expecting a shipment from Mr. Wolff? I'd really love to have a listen if anybody can spare the time. PM me, please. Thnx |
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| Lives for gear Joined: Dec 2004 Location: Athens, GA- US
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Not sure that is drool on my chin..... |
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| Lives for gear Joined: Jun 2002
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Gil - Thank you for the pics. Special thanks to JM for sharing. Hopefully somebody has a detailed (cad?) drawing of that frame because I belive this is were I am headed. Any chance for close in shots of each bucket after it is completed? Looking forward to hearing that tasty Tele through the Tonelux! |
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| Lives for gear Joined: Jun 2004 Location: London
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I hate him.
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| I like lamp Joined: Jul 2005 Location: New Orleans, LA
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It's hard to tell from the website just how much stuff you'd need, the best way to assemble it, and what to use as a frame if you were to make a "real" console out of the Tonelux stuff... how much would something like that run for?
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Custom Tonelux console solutions start at $29,000. Jimmy's, when all said and done, will be north of $50,000. Furniture and frame run $3500 and up. -gil |
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| I like lamp Joined: Jul 2005 Location: New Orleans, LA
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That's cool... I'd love to get the equivalent of my Midas Venice in the form of a custom Tonelux console, maybe some more channels and definitely more bussing and sends.
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Jimmy already had the 500 series stuff. We modified the rack to fit the frame. Just added some more pix, Jimmy added the wood and more modules. It looks real nice. Just finishing up the fader system, it also is working well.
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| Lives for gear Joined: Sep 2002 Location: Santa Ynez, Taxafornia
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I think I'll invite myself over and give it a test drive.... hint hint
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coming together now - wood sides and tops installed, rack rails installed in rear of frame, patch bays in place... waiting on faders and leather bolster for the front... |
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that things lookin really really good ![]() Someone's an LA-2A slut... |
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| Gear addict Joined: Jul 2002 Location: Bowie, MD
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Next up will be Paul Reed Smith's rig. While it's not a large as Jimmy's, it's gonna be sweet! I'm picking up a good deal of the rig tomorrow. |
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| Lives for gear Joined: Dec 2002 Location: Mission Viejo, CA
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Hosa cables!!!! Tell me no......
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| Lives for gear Joined: Dec 2002 Location: El Lay
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Looks nice. Someone here was asking about EQF-2's recently, I see there's one in that 500 rack.
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| Lives for gear Joined: Dec 2005 Location: burnaby, b.c. canaduh
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AWESOME! = |
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| Lives for gear Joined: May 2004 Location: Sunny California
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I didn't find any issues with the cables, and when the rep brought them, he said that they have improved the soldering to make them more relyable, but like I said, they are working fine. | |
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ShadowMix installed, console up and running, Jim very happy, music to follow!! Here are the latest pics of the Messina Tonelux console, which Paul installed the ShadowMix faders and automation into after AES. Once the bolster in on this baby ready for the cover of Mix!! |
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| Lives for gear Joined: Jun 2002
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Very nice Gil (Paul and JM) - Any chance for a detailed explanation of the patch bay set up? Specifically: 1) Normals on the bay (eqs, inserts, etc.) 2) Integration of API pres (use of submix?) I think it would be intructive for those considering Tonelux (still including me) to see how JM has his rig set up. How about the manual (?) faders on the left; what are they connected to? Thanks! |
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