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10th November 2004
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| Gear addict  Join Date: May 2004
Posts: 386
Thread Starter | TAC Scorpion. Anyone used one? I just brought a pair of Tac scorpions for $250 dollars and am waiting for them to arrive. Does anyone have any experiance/impressions of this board?? Cheers |
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10th November 2004
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| Lives for gear  Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Chicago (Schaumburg / Hoffman Est.) IL
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 | Several times - Not in quite a while, though... They were nice... Nothing amazing, but certainly capable... Two... consoles? For $250? Do they work?
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11th November 2004
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| Lives for gear  Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Gävle, Sweden
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| I have worked a lot with it. Agree with MASSIVE Master. Think it can be described as quite clean sounding. Two for $250 ???????? That's insane
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11th November 2004
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| Gear addict Join Date: May 2004
Posts: 386
Thread Starter | Well... they aren't in great shape and there is only one power supply but I will definately be able to make one good un and have a lot of spare parts. |
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11th November 2004
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| Gear maniac  Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Melbourne Australia
Posts: 168
| I was watching a band at a gig one night and saw a rather drunk female spill an entire jug of beer onto a TAC Scorpion. The desk stopped, the band stopped, the gig stopped. Don't know if the desks are any good but I thought I'd share that useless information with you. |
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11th November 2004
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| Lives for gear  Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Melbourne, Australia
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14th November 2004
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| Gear maniac Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: LA County, CA
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| Holy cow...how big were they? I mean, how big are the frames? What do you have left over? -Stephen |
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15th November 2004
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| Gear addict Join Date: May 2004
Posts: 386
Thread Starter | Still waiting for them to arrive. In a studio mixing an album now and they are using a TAC matchless console. It's huge. I'm hoping that the the scorpions are are lot smaller. |
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15th November 2004
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| Gear maniac Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: LA County, CA
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| Uhm...I mean, how many channels, etc? While we're being nosy with your stuff... lol. -Stephen |
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15th November 2004
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| Gear addict Join Date: May 2004
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Thread Starter | Oh... um . Judging from the photos they each have 12 mono channels two stereo channels, 8 bus channels and 4 auxs. Should compliment my 002r setup nicely. |
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15th November 2004
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| Gear maniac Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: LA County, CA
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| Sounds like quite a deal...congratulations! -Stephen |
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16th November 2004
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| Jai guru deva om  Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: South Carolina
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| I've been looking into one, just gotta figure out if I want to drive from SC to PA to pick it up. War
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17th November 2004
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| Gear nut  Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Boston, MA
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| Awsome Unit once Upgraded... The Scorpion makes/takes it's line level through the mic preamps. This means that you're at mic level and get reduce to get at line level. This adds noise and makes things muddy. We are currrently converting our entire console to line level only. Getting rid of the mic amps and using outboard mic pre's. It now sounds AWESOME! |
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18th November 2004
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| Gear addict Join Date: May 2004
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Thread Starter | Well... thats interesting... mmmm . Well my line recording go into protools via a buzz audio pre. Comming back into the desk won't sound as good I guess... |
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18th November 2004
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| Gear nut Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Boston, MA
Posts: 143
| Get the upgrade is you have the bux... Since you got em' cheep, see if you can do a few channels to see what it'll sound like. Do the 4001 Master, and a pair each of 1101 Channel and 3101 Buss modules. Make sure you get an Operator/SERVICE MANUAL to see what's going on with your unit. All the best! Donnie D. |
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19th September 2007
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| Gear interested Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: brux-hell-BE
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During the last performance a full glass of bier flew over the crowd and land gently on the -about to be fully mine- desk... Don't worry ! after a extensive drying and cleaning... it works barrely ok... Tough geardfegad for sure ! | |
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19th September 2007
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| Gear maniac  Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Seattle
Posts: 186
| when I first opened my studio I had a 24x16 tac scorpion. For the money there great! the pre and eq is useable, way better than a mackie 8 bus. When you mix on it make sure to keep an eye on the 2 mix, as soon as you start to drive it too much your mix will just go to hell. Good luck, Reed
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22nd March 2008
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| Gear interested  Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Atlanta, Georgia
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 | The TAC Scorpion II is a great board. It's Preamp and EQ section were designed by Rupert Neve and built to be the Neve "Live" board! The biggest drawback is that they are heavy as HELL! The damned thing is built like a tank with double wall 1/8" steel construction!!! I use one in my studio and these are the pre-amps I use for my drums. I've got 3 channels out now and looking for a bigger chassis (the 40x8 frame) and a bunch of extra channel strips. If anyone knows of one please let me know... E
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22nd March 2008
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| Lives for gear  | Main thing that I noticed about the board was that it didn't sound "fast", had a bit more noise than I was used to, and worst of all that a good many of the pots were REALLY dirty, crackly and poppy on the EQs. That's fixable of course, but just a pain in the ass. Overall i enjoyed the EQ on that board quite a bit however.
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23rd March 2008
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| Lives for gear  Join Date: May 2006 Location: Chicago
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| My first console was a 24 Channel Scorpion that came from Mitch Easters Drive In Studio (REM's first engineer/producer). The board sounded fine and was quite durable, but the pots are horrible and the pres were so-so. If you don't use the pots, they get scratchy and get dead spots in them fast. Use em or lose em is my best advice... I think they are sealed graphite pots.. which is part of the problem. Cool console though..... have fun.
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23rd March 2008
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| Lives for gear  Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Minneapolis MN
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| One currently lives in The Sound Gallery studios in minneapolis and they make some awesome sounding records! Nice console! |
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23rd March 2008
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| Lives for gear  Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Lancaster, Pa
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| I have the 24chanel/8buss console and love the damm thing to death. I record throught it and mix somethings through it depends on the track. Great board for the money.
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23rd March 2008
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23rd March 2008
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| Gear maniac  Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: 30 sq miles surrounded by reality!
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| I think Coney Island in Madison, WI has one and still uses it. |
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23rd March 2008
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| Lives for gear Join Date: Dec 2004
Posts: 2,086
| Those were the days! I loved my Scorpion. As said before they were built like tanks. Incredibly heavy! Breaks the back of two people carrying it. I just loved the built quality and the leather armrest. The EQ's weren't too bad. |
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16th October 2008
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| Gear interested  Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Vietnam
Posts: 26
| Hi All. I am a newbe.... I used Tac Scorpion 2....and I don't know much about it....Some one can Show me?? Thanks... I have 8 aux send and 4 return... on the aux return have aux 3 and 4 (S2001)...I don't know where they send? Help me.... I'm in Vietnam and I don't have cataloge about this. Peace |
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18th October 2008
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| Gear interested Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Vietnam
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| may some one show me......thank you so much |
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22nd May 2011
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| Lives for gear  Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Atlanta, GA
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| I did an EP on a Scorpion years back and it was fine. As someone else said it was clean sounding which is not such a bad thing. |
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