soo i'm moving to spain in a month....

and i'm such a sucker for crazy old crap....ala Flot-A-Tones


really moldie oldies....

and i'm wondering about old anything made in europe...

amps, Drums, consoles...

give me some crazy brands..

thanks in advance....

héhé welcome to europe! bienvenidos!

(check german ebay)

are you talking float a tone amps from koss ?

http://www.orangeamps.com/rocker/

musician stuff:
dynacord has some nice stuff, their tube tape-delay is quite popular here in gothenburg and i really like some of their amps (bass king for instance).
fbt have made some cool guitar amps but check the tubes since there are some models with extremely rare output tubes = no amp once the tubes are gone. hagström has also made lots of cool gear.
roxy drums from hamburg. i´ve got a wooden snare that always sound great recorded.

recording:
disa preamps from denmark are supposed to be really good.
then there´s those old norwegian preamps that i do´nt remember the name of.
the swedish chrisman compressors are supposed to be nice.

you might have heard of neumann and telefunken and siemens and...

good luck

thanks for all the tips....keep em coming if you got em...

re flot-a-tone
koss...?

Lo Duca i think...
maybe they were picked up by koss later in the 60's

i think my flot-a-tone is from the late 40s early 50's

rips...

fbt?
what about Marathon?

i'm definately taking a trip to germany...
and krakow...

seriously any good flea market freak finds in europe?

Hi,

I spend a lot of Sundays at flea markets in and around Bonn and still haven't found that 25-euro U47 whose owner is completely oblivious to its real value....

But seriously, here in Germany eBay has pretty much destroyed the potential for freak finds. The upside is that prices for old gear are a bit more consistent now because of it. A few weeks ago at a flea market someone offered me an ancient Hohner Organa for € 160. Luckily I didn't buy it, as some eBay research revealed that the going price is more like € 50 - there's hundreds of them on eBay!

However, if you're after old-timey house decoration or hobbyist stuff, i.e. vintage furniture, old advertsing plaques, pre-war printed matter, this sort of stuff, you'll love some of the flea markets over here.

Cheers,

Recky

Recky's right. German flee markets aren't what they used to be. The real bargains are long gone, thanks to eBay...

There are still stellar deals to be made though - but that'll be through good connections exclusively: Cinemas, schools, broadcasters, concert venues etc.
The usual suspects.

Two years ago, I bought 2 U47 fet for € 1000.

Cheers.


Michael

yep german eBay is good news...

i guess i was wondering more about oddball european crap...read non german non italian non brit...

i'm ok on that stuff...
i'm sure i'd be suprised by how much i don't know...but the usuals like farfisa, hohner, selmer, filtek, ant, studer...

actually a studer 169 looks pretty sexy...

i've heard of that stuff...and i can't wait to get my hands on some of it...

now....Who's hit the former soviet states?

how's french stuff..?

Swing on down to Heidelberg, you are welcome in my house.. I go to flea markets all the time here. being an american living here, I share the love of Euro Gear.

Teddy

There was this bit of French kit that I think was called Disa. Maybe it's Danish? I don't know, but they made a tube pre that looks just like a Telefunken V76. I saw some on ebay once and it looked like it was very cool.

thanks all...
Disa....check...
maraton amps anyone?

Bullard when i get there we drink and buy trixon drums...

hofner basses...

selmer amps

studer consoles...

it should be trouble...

ok..i'm here..

my new studer is sitting next to me..

here's a photo..

hubba hubba i say..

you slut! heh
PICTURE PLEASE!

NKT, Lyrec and B&K made some serious serious recording gear back in the days.

ahh yess.. the photo..

we as we speak this fugger is in madrid having mucho customization done to it..

limiters brought to a patchbay..
inserts balanced
power supply rebuilt..
just a serious going threw..it will be eeevil me thinks

my tech he is like mad...he keeps finding cool **** to do to it..

i'm in the process of picking out some german eq's...

and probably a Neumann u473 pair for the 2buss?

these german cartariges make me sweaty.

so here's that photo..
slurping sounds from me..

and by the way..



i say HOLY SHIEET

very nice clean desk!
I'm sure it'll sound peachy.
U473a comps are real gems. love the tone.
Let us know what you think of it? And which eqs you got?

deal is pending..

but 2 Neumann w491's
and 2 ANT w696b's

these will mostly be strapped across the busses for mixdown.
and inserted in to the channels for tracking
(tho' i tend to not eq that much during tracking)

at least that's what i'm thinking right now...
who know's what will happen during the sessions..

let me know more about these u473's will you..?

they're really nice to put a vocal, or acoustic instrument forward in the mix.
the tone is sophisticated, not without energy but not SSL buss slam stuff
they'll start to pump when overdone, but there is a filter on the sidechain.
you can find the schematics and manual in the Kubarth files

oh works on some vocals too.
my girlfriend is spanish, she's got a beautiful voice, soft and with lots of emotion.
and these Neumanns are very usefull in lifting the soft parts, without breaking the spell.
for powerfull voices, I use my Kultube.
both in the mix, never while tracking.

Yup.
I'd say the U473a is the smoothest sounding and most unobstrusive VCA compressor I've come across.

My 2 cents


Michael

Crossing border/ Swiss made Albiswerk Eq's. Remember Stockhausen ?
and Custom made portable mixer