low end quasi studio contruction post

[jhg]

Hello

Inspired by posts of people building beautiful hi-end studios, I introduce my ghetto version of such: a seemingly never ending quest with my project studio in my apartment: from digital ITB personal workspace to console and improved equipment. It certainly isn't as exciting, or slutty, but here goes...



This is the older workspace

[jhg]

moving new stuff in. Not all to stay though, console is for sure.

[jhg]

new(for me) board where it will live

[jhg]

before real monitors arrived. I was itching to work.

[jhg]

still much more to do: acquire and wire. But I can now mix.

[jhg]

These aren't the newest pictures. More to come in the near future(post clean/vaccuum, spare time, etc)

Thank you for letting me indulge.

[against88]

that's a badass console. its kinda nice to see a big desk in a smaller room...

anyways... ACCORDIAN! i see it. what do you mic it with??

i was doing some tracking recently and we put a 421 up to it... FUN!! (though it took two people to play it!)

-w

[ramjet]

hi

man that looks way cool

what console is that

cheers

[beanstalk40]

Wow! totally awesome... I'd kill for a setup like that... stike

[opentune]

Wow, if that ain´t a vast improvement...

I think it´s cool to have a "building-thread" in the low-end-section. You´re
a true pioneer!
Make sure to post more info on the console!

[jhg]

Hello,

The console I acquired was an old analog Soundtracs CP6800, circa 1987-88 I believe. It has an internal patchbay on the far right side; which is a really odd setup, no over/under at all. All line input/output, effects, inserts etc. show up on Elco 56 connectors on the back(making the cabling more expensive than the board!)

It has 32 mic pres, a 12/24 bus routing scheme(only 12 busses are available at once for ouptut) - designed to be used around a 24 trk tape machine. The routing system is a very early digital type routing scheme: it runs on a Commodore 64! Amazingly the computer runs fine after 18 or so years. To route signals one hits "unlock" on the keyboard, selects the destination then the source channel.

I'm pretty pleased with sound of the board, although to do drastic things one has to work/ push it a bit. The EQ are pretty smooth, not really too adept at surgical carving out frequencies. The pres have tons of gain, I received a shinybox ribbon mic in the mail yesterday and immediatley hooked it up and there was plenty of gain to power it, the gain pot was at about 60-70% and the signal peaking.

Anyway, thanks again for kind words, although not even anywhere close to other studio construction projects this has taken a while and a lot out of me.

Regards,

Joel