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Original LA2A for sale…
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Monthly Archives: August 2013
The 1/2 designer was the EE – Lacie WhizKey failure
After a year on my key chain, my Lacie WhizKey is unreadable :-( Could anyone recommend a solid replacement?
The cap that came supplied had no locking mechanism, it was lost thus making the contacts exposed to the environment. Cleaning the contacts has brought the device back in the past but I it’s now beyond repair. What a disappointment, it looks so good.
An EDAC panel with some fresh engraving
Selling the Invisible (Harry Beckwith) a must read
I’ve been reading a bunch of books on sales and marketing lately and one book that is really sticking out for me is Selling the Invisible by Harry Beckwith. Selling a services is a hard game and recording time, technical services, mixing etc is hyper competitive and this read WILL help anyone selling the intangible. This book would have done me well several years ago but will do me justice for the future.
If you’re too busy to read here is the BizSum of the book
and another summary restating basically the same thing.
Hard not to admire the design of Braun
Drilling into drywall? – This life hack is amazing
All that time I spend on Reddit finally paid off with this life pro tips.
Thought I’d share how it saved me from pulling out the vacuum
Searching for a small reverb tank… 1BB3C1B – Who hoards these?
I’m repairing a Yamaha PG-1 guitar pre-amp and am in need of a reverb tank
The model # I have is 1BB3C1B
1 – Type 1
B – Input Impedance 150 Ohm
B – Output Impedance 2,250 Ohm
3 – decayLong (2.75 to 4.0s)
C – Input Insulated/Output Grounded
1 – No Lock
B – Horizontal Open Side Down
The spring had come apart inside and the other spring must have broken in the past and was removed.
let me know if you have something similar!
WBS POD 22A meters – house standard!
Dave did some nice tails for the WBS POD 22 meters.
AudioAholics.com – Playing with business card ideas…
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Got my school book list…
Got my school book list. Does anyone know a good place to buy text books online? I would prefer both a paper and PDF version (to save my back)
WBS T1202A in for a cleaning
Dave got his hands a little dirty in the cleaning of a clients T1202A. Very good little task out of the way. While it was in I snapped a few pics for the archive :-) I would have named it a T1202C as it has C revision Modules…
Here is a link to the Ward-Beck Systems T1202A
Spectrafoo or Smaart?
I’m looking to invest in a mobile acoustic measurement software and am looking for opinions.
I’ve been playing with the Spectrafoo Demo and I must say it’s very impressive
http://mhsecure.com/metric_halo/products/software/spectrafoo.html and it’s very competitively priced. The Main thing appealing to me about foo is the “Transfer Function Measurement System” I became familiar with while using a SIM system… This to me is the most valuable feature.
Monster buzzword buzzword buzzword wire VS solder
We had a chunk on Monster Cable “Interlink Reference 2 High Resolution total bandwidth balance Audio Interconnect cable with Micro fiber” and a piece of solder in the shop… so we put them through the audio precision.
guess which one is the solder
Getting the WBS POD22s ready for installation
There is nothing like this meter on the market. It’s nice to have on the bench, excited to get them installed!
Hurt feelings reports
Hand Wrench
Frequency Responce of Solder…
20130530 – new WBS Console Side Panels
There has been talks of 12 channel consoles being made so designs are moving from paper to cad… I’ve been dreaming up a new design of side panel that can lay flay or be stood upright using a support. The idea is to put them on an island in either upright or flat positions. The faders would be flat in the mix position, and angled in the upright position. The back interconnect would be all edacs.
Always growing the adapter wall
The demands only grow as the systems do.
Red – XLRF – TRS
Blue – XLRM – TRS
Green – ground lift
Yellow – polarity inverter
Violet – XLRM – XLRM
Black Expando – XLRF – XLRF
Orange – XLR to TS
20100424 – Roxanne – a WBS R1200 resto mod
One of my first ground up restores. This was a console with 12 Mic pre-amps, direct outs, summing and a monitor. It had a “Red Light” on the meter bridge… so I added a switch that said “POTRL” that “Put on the Red Light” and so it became “Roxanne” It’s still in use today but could use some tweaks I’ve learned from experience. We’re working on a very similar project right now, so It’s very cool to look back and learn.
The biggest lesson: it’s hard to put a value on a labour of love and curiosity, but bill accordingly.
