That's a cool story! See what you get for trying to help out a mega-conglomerate? I vaguely remember CX - an expander or something for LP's? I think I had a Clash record that said CX on it. I never could stand noise reduction much until Dolby SR. It worked pretty well, even out of alignment. Awesome at 15ips - huge bottom end and no tape hiss...JR. wrote:
CX deserved to fail, what a group of clowns...
As far as Neve and transformers, I'd say they didn't use them long enough! LOL Went to instant crap after they pulled them out. But there are many reasons for that. And I'm not a transformer-is-a-panacea kinda guy either - none of my designs have used them so far and it can be a real uphill battle convincing people that you don't need them to have a "sound". But rock records are just easier to do on old Neves and APIs - they're extremely forgiving of bad engineering technique. And I especially love the sound of the passive mixing on the old Neves - it started to really sound good when the vu meters pegged.
As far as the metalwork goes, this is all derived from a design for burn-in racks that I need to build. So I'll see how it all goes with those and I can get a better idea of the feasability and what it might cost to build up a console frame...
Emrr, sounds like a job that any local sheetmetal shop should be able to handle - ones that do air conditioning stuff would probably be the cheapest. Don't mention the word restoration though! That is sure to add to the price...
