Stolen equipment @ Sweetsilence studios Denmark Flemming Rasmussen

[George Necola]

Got this email from Flemming Rasmussen (Metallica, Blind Guardian and countless others hitrecords producer/mixer/engineer).

if you find the equipment contact him directly (see below):

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Flemming Rasmussen
FWR Produktion/Sweet Silence Studios
Castor Alle 3
DK-2770 Kastrup
Denmark

Web: http://www.fwrproduction.com
mail:
sweetsilencestudios@gmail.com
fwrproduktion@me.com
f_rass@post3.tele.dk
Cell: +45 40 277 847




List of equipment stolen from The Studio at Vibevej 7b 1.sal
Night between 20 & 21 dec. 2011

Mixer: Digidesign D-Command main unit med XMON
Serie nr: XU00221
Digidesign! D-Command Fader unit
Serie nr: XW00208
Monitors:
Yamaha NS10M
serial nr. 346497 L / 346497 R

DYNAUDIO M1 STUDIO MONITOR Pair
serial nr. 920908 / 920907

outboard: API 500v rack v/ psu200
serial nr. 906.0881
serial nr. 806.0773

2 X API 512C Mic preamp
Serial nr. 906.4329
Serial nr. 906.4333

4X API 550B EQ
Serial nr. 906.4432
Serial nr. 906.4434
Serial nr. 907.4950
Serial nr. 907.4951

4X API 525 Compressors
Serial nr. 907.1004
Serial nr. 907.1066
Serial nr. 907.1151
Serial nr. 907.1153

Focusrite ISA428 m/ digi option!
serial nr. MH441 OJ01269 990011087-00

Elberg MP8
serial nr. MP81603

Digital Audio Danmark Danmark ADDA 25402
serial nr.


Behringer powerplay 4000
serial nr. 71387808
Behringer powerplay 4400
serial nr.
Behringer powerplay 8000!
serial nr

dbx! 786 Stereo Mic pre
serial nr.


mikrofones:
Neumann U87A I m ophæng
serial nr.! 88049
Neumann U87A I m ophæng
serial nr.! 95112

1X Sennheiser MD421 MKII
serial nr. 1117211322
2X Sennheiser MD441
serial nr. 1268098475
1X Electro Voice RE20
Serial nr:! 16207816

2XSC sound 8041 DI

[Capashitor]

This is a shame. At least, they didnt take or harm the A-range.

[HID]

Originally Posted by Capashitor

This is a shame. At least, they didnt take or harm the A-range.

Indeed.

Man, truly a shame.

Good luck to them in recovering from this.

I am sure we will all do our best to spread the word.

[juicylime]

I trained in audio and played in Copenhagen for a few years, Sweet Silence was always one of the great studios. I hope whoever did this gets caught and the gear returned!

[Stiff]

It's a damn shame. Flemming is a great guy too. I will definitely keep an eye out.

[erikdrink]

Shame

[razorboy]

There days, a lot of people would think of it as gear sharing, not theft.

[Squidy]

The first album I ever heard that I liked was done by Flemming! That blows! Hope it all gets recovered

[rksguit]

Man I HATE motherF^&kers that steal gear!!!

An old buddy o mine[Danish Carpenter] helped build that place supposedly.

Some bastard stole my Marshall 100w 2203,outa my car,the next day he tried to sell it to the shop I bought it from.

Luckily they remembered,and stalled him till the cops came!

I once had all my leads/pedals/spares stolen,just before we were to set up,and play,at the Tote pub in Melbourne.

I had my Marshall/Quad onstage with NOTHING to plug in to it[no power/speaker leads etc].

I ended up using the support bands Peavey combo with a Boss DS-1,but the guy that owned the amp kept leaping on stage,thinking I was gonna blow it up,cause I was getting such a "raging" tone out of it

I hope to hell they NAIL those F$#ks that ripped off Flemming R.,and he get's it ALL back!!!!

[Lagerfeldt]

There's a string of rather professional studio burglaries in Copenhagen at the moment.

8 studios and a gear dealer have been burglarized in the last couple of months. The interesting thing is that even cables are being stolen - and since Denmark is a fairly small country my guess is that it's a foreign job, most likely from Eastern Europe.

[George Necola]

Originally Posted by Lagerfeldt

There's a string of rather professional studio burglaries in Copenhagen at the moment.

8 studios and a gear dealer have been burglarized in the last couple of months. The interesting thing is that even cables are being stolen - and since Denmark is a fairly small country my guess is that it's a foreign job, most likely from Eastern Europe.

who was involved/robbed? can we conduct a complete list? maybe pm me the details of the studios, so we can post the gear stolen online?

cheers

[hilarius]

It's definately going abroad, there's no way they can sell this stuff in the DK. That's why people in here have to be all the more alert, because these things could be going to any part of the world.

Originally Posted by Lagerfeldt

There's a string of rather professional studio burglaries in Copenhagen at the moment.

8 studios and a gear dealer have been burglarized in the last couple of months. The interesting thing is that even cables are being stolen - and since Denmark is a fairly small country my guess is that it's a foreign job, most likely from Eastern Europe.

[Capashitor]

As a customs officer, I can say burglar bands mostly from romainia/bulgaria are expanding their "field of expertise" and have found a virtually infinite mine of gold in western europe since the schengen space opened to them. They happen to be unbelievably well organized and surpass even the biggest drug smuggling organizations in terms of intern security methods (btw they are expanding to drug smuggling as well).

If those guys spent their genius on ecological matters we would be flying water-fueled air-cabs by now.

But I guess with the european economical collapse we will just shut the borders again and everything wil be allright.

[juicylime]

Originally Posted by Lagerfeldt

There's a string of rather professional studio burglaries in Copenhagen at the moment.

8 studios and a gear dealer have been burglarized in the last couple of months. The interesting thing is that even cables are being stolen - and since Denmark is a fairly small country my guess is that it's a foreign job, most likely from Eastern Europe.

Even the cabling? Wow. If that's the case you'd suspect that maybe they're being sold on as complete studios. One thing I'd say about Danish studios, even project ones, is that they usually have a very high standard of equipment. Although it's been a few years since I lived there, but I'm sure these thieves are well aware of how valuable what they are getting is. It's something I'm very paranoid about myself.

If I owned a facility in CPH now I'd probably have one of this in my desk: GPS Tracking | GPS Tracker | GPS Tracking Device

[SureSound]

thats a shame and a ridiculous amount of gear to be stolen, I will certainly keep a lookout while I'm searching for new gear,

its likely the perps will try to sell some if not all of it on craigslist and/or ebay and they're probably stupid enough to give you the serial numbers if you find them listed online, best of luck recovering your gear!

[ronwasserman]

As a note for the future ALWAYS have security cameras going. I have this and any images are immediately uploaded to a off site server so the bad guys would 'think' they have the images but would not.

I realize having video footage doesn't always result in a arrest, but it sure helps the prosecutor if they do catch them. And the press (at least here in America) LOVES to air that kind of footage again and again and again.

Terribly sorry this happened to you. I hope they catch the bastards.

[Showcase]

Worst nightmare, will try to keep an eye open on the Swedish marketplaces!

[SveinKB]

I'll keep an eye on the biggest Norwegian secondhand-sale sites.

[deft_bonz]

What a shame... hope they get them.

And when I think about the brothel that moved in two stories above my studio and the "deliver" service, I have to be scared about my studio.

At least there are some security cams and an alarm at the entrance. But they won't have to break the front door

[Fleaman]

Originally Posted by George Necola

Got this email from Flemming Rasmussen (Metallica, Blind Guardian and countless others hitrecords producer/mixer/engineer).

if you find the equipment contact him directly (see below):

1X Sennheiser MD421 MKII
serial nr. 1117211322

This is such a good idea to list the serial #'s and for GS to post it. As a test I googled 'MD421 1117211322' and it hit this thread as a stolen!

I (and I hope others) will always google the model and serial # of a potential used gear purchase. It only takes less than a second and you never know...

+, anyone unwilling to give serial #'s is a red flag.

[deft_bonz]

Originally Posted by Fleaman

This is such a good idea to list the serial #'s and for GS to post it. As a test I googled 'MD421 1117211322' and it hit this thread as a stolen!

I (and I hope others) will always google the model and serial # of a potential used gear purchase. It only takes less than a second and you never know...

+, anyone unwilling to give serial #'s is a red flag.

Serial nrs are a must, when buying second hand gear.
I think every studio should write down their serial numbers. That's what I do. It's also very handy, when handling with insurances, after a burglary

[Retrospekta]

Originally Posted by Lagerfeldt

There's a string of rather professional studio burglaries in Copenhagen at the moment.

8 studios and a gear dealer have been burglarized in the last couple of months. The interesting thing is that even cables are being stolen - and since Denmark is a fairly small country my guess is that it's a foreign job, most likely from Eastern Europe.

oh, really? I´d rather say it might be in the same city, perhaps just the next street, or somebody who knows fleming very well? then they build their own studio.. selling it on ebay is possible as well, but i believe, even though in this bussiness, most people are extremely egoistic, nobody would honestly want anybodies studio to get robbed... so, I would hope that nobody would buy the staff... I will keep my eyes out for it..

[Retrospekta]

Originally Posted by deft_bonz

Serial nrs are a must, when buying second hand gear.
I think every studio should write down their serial numbers. That's what I do. It's also very handy, when handling with insurances, after a burglary

I agree! when we moved studios, i had some monitors, mics, HDDs,custom made cables and headphones stolen.. but didn't take the serial down on anything.. the insurance paid a part of it.. but i am still a couple of thousands short... this is really ****ed up...


but i am not likely to get this stuff back.. ever... but, except of the monitors, I was able to get new stuff straight away...

best wishes to everybody!

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[Retrospekta]

Originally Posted by SureSound

thats a shame and a ridiculous amount of gear to be stolen, I will certainly keep a lookout while I'm searching for new gear,

its likely the perps will try to sell some if not all of it on craigslist and/or ebay and they're probably stupid enough to give you the serial numbers if you find them listed online, best of luck recovering your gear!

Yeah man, they must have been there for hours non stop... and nobody realized someone in and out of a building with lots of equipment in their hands? No way has this been one person alone.. Probably 2 or 3.... And as i said, most likely to be somebody who know the place....

[MechanEvil]

This is scary stuff. The theory that the thieves intend to sell it as a "readymade" studio seems plausible to me, there are a lot of sick "collectors" that think it's cool to steal guitars of famous people and other equipment. To be sold at an appropriate future date or even used for other nefarious activities, like "writing a hit album". Think Skull and Crossbones society and you'll figure out what kind of happy-go-lucky people I'm talking about here.

I think the idea of posting serial numbers online is brilliant. Maybe it even merits a website of its own. We're musicians, not thieves. Receiving stolen goods is as much a crime as stealing it in the first place and if the information is readily available, no one should be able to claim they "didn't know".

I'm scared to death my house gets hit. Not that anything is particularly valuable, but it's the studio I've built lovingly over years. I feel sorry for Mr Rasmussen.

- Jimmy Rage

[Matt R]

Originally Posted by MechanEvil

I think the idea of posting serial numbers online is brilliant. Maybe it even merits a website of its own. We're musicians, not thieves. Receiving stolen goods is as much a crime as stealing it in the first place and if the information is readily available, no one should be able to claim they "didn't know".

I've just purchased a domain name to turn into a very simple online subscription service to do just that. I'll have a beta out within the next 2-3 days most likely.

It'll be $5/month even to store as many serial numbers and devices as you want. If a device is stolen, you mark it as stolen. There will be a public web form where pawn shops, music stores, anyone can go to check a serial number. If the number is marked as stolen, it will notify the store owner and send you an email containing the IP Address of the person performing the search and when it was performed.

I plan on building in a basic system for inventory tracking eventually so you know where your gear is at all times.

I'll update this once I have something up for people to try out.

[deft_bonz]

Good idea. Make sure it can import some simple CSV files. Otherwise some of us would have to enter hundreds of serials I guess a lot of people already using excel to save some data about their gear. It'd be an easy thing to create a CSV file from that, in a way you predefined for the import.

For a "simple" information storage, I'd recommend to work out the pricing, although I can only imagine how much work it means for you. Maybe something like a lite version, just for storing and a full version for inventory tracking etc.

The owner should receive more than just an IP. Pawn shops, stores, privat persons could register themselves for free search. This way the owner could get more information like a name of the shop etc. Then they could get in touch with each other, if needed.

[Matt R]

Originally Posted by deft_bonz

Good idea. Make sure it can import some simple CSV files. Otherwise some of us would have to enter hundreds of serials I guess a lot of people already using excel to save some data about their gear. It'd be an easy thing to create a CSV file from that, in a way you predefined for the import.

For a "simple" information storage, I'd recommend to work out the pricing, although I can only imagine how much work it means for you. Maybe something like a lite version, just for storing and a full version for inventory tracking etc.

The owner should receive more than just an IP. Pawn shops, stores, privat persons could register themselves for free search. This way the owner could get more information like a name of the shop etc. Then they could get in touch with each other, if needed.

CSV Importing and shop registration will both be included. Great ideas

[juicylime]

Originally Posted by MechanEvil

Receiving stolen goods is as much a crime as stealing it in the first place and if the information is readily available, no one should be able to claim they "didn't know".

- Jimmy Rage

I'm not sure about elsewhere, but here in Ireland receiving can carry a stiffer sentence than stealing. By buying stolen gear you are creating a demand for thieves to fill.

[Fleaman]

Originally Posted by juicylime

I'm not sure about elsewhere, but here in Ireland receiving can carry a stiffer sentence than stealing. By buying stolen gear you are creating a demand for thieves to fill.

I always ask to see an I.D. and make the seller sign a bill of sale that states the items being sold are not stolen and have no liens on them--when they don't have receipts (who's gonna have a receipt for a 35 year old Neve module that was taken out of a 80 series?).

For used stuff online I tend to stick to ebay and I take the feedback and especially how long seller has been an ebay member into account.

That being said, if I had done all of that and still received gear that ended up stolen, how would I be dealt with if I was in Ireland?