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Post by joel hamilton » Sun Apr 22, 2007 6:42 pm

andrew wrote:
joel hamilton wrote:This is the one I was thinking of when i first posted that. These little things are SOOOOO cool!!!!

http://cgi.ebay.com/GLENSOUND-GLS9-VINT ... dZViewItem

The current version can be configured however you want, including some really cool compressor modules!!!

http://www.glensound.co.uk/GSGX3.htm
I actually bought this. Hope it sounds as good as it looks.
They are totally good, man. I think you will enjoy it.

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Post by oudplayer » Mon Apr 23, 2007 6:26 am

Noone's mentioned Tangent mixers... talk about lo-fi! Makes the Biamps look like an API. :D

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Post by wedge » Tue Apr 24, 2007 10:40 pm

Are the tangents any good at all? I just saw one at a local music shop used for around $400... I know nothing about them, but it looked pretty sweet somehow... Loved the orange 70's logo...

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Post by moogplayer » Thu Apr 26, 2007 12:23 pm

Tangents aren't bad - not great either. $400 for one is pretty steep, unless it's the big studio model. The small 8 and 12 ch models are worth about $100. Still worth a look though.

Other cheap small desks worth mentioning:

Heathkit TM-1626 (6 input stereo out from 1974 - looks like a 1/8 scale bigger console).

Lamb Laboratories 4x2 with built-in limiter.

Seck 6 channel 2 buss

Studiomaster 8 into 4

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Post by wedge » Thu Apr 26, 2007 7:54 pm

This is the model I saw:

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Very cool looking... I really wanted it... It called to me, yet the price tag of $400 was way too high...

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Post by inverseroom » Fri Apr 27, 2007 4:46 am

That's a great looking mixer!

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Post by ideaofnorth » Fri Apr 27, 2007 10:39 am

i had a tangent 12ax something or other. looked AMAZING, sounded like doo. noisy, thin sounding, unexciting (to me at least).

i enjoyed a little studiomaster gold 8x2 for a long time. something about the sound of the pres made me happy, fairly focused with a little hair, and decent eq as well. nice compliment to the sytek, my only other pres at the time.

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Post by Judas Jetski » Fri Apr 27, 2007 2:16 pm

I totally love my Ramsa WR-S 4412. Love love love it. Sometimes it confuses me, but I guess that's the nature of love.

It's fairly large compared to some. Though.
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Post by wedge » Fri Apr 27, 2007 9:17 pm

The one thing that's cool about the Tangents, aside from their 70's hip look, is the fact that each channel is modular, so you can pull 'em out one by one and tweak away, should you be the electronicly inclined type... Don't know enough about board electronics to know if you can improve it's sound enough to make it worth it, but it sure seems like it'd be fun to feck around with...

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Post by fremitus » Fri Apr 27, 2007 10:04 pm

i guess i'll throw my litle 'sleeper' in the ring. got it for $400 on ebay a couple of years ago. McCurdy PE2600. 6 channel discrete box of love...


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Post by inverseroom » Sat Apr 28, 2007 5:04 am

wedge wrote:The one thing that's cool about the Tangents, aside from their 70's hip look, is the fact that each channel is modular, so you can pull 'em out one by one...
...and throw them away individually? :lol:

That McCurdy is rad.

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Post by wedge » Sat Apr 28, 2007 8:54 am

inverseroom wrote:...and throw them away individually? :lol:
Replace them with Radio Shack? "Make Your Own Mixer Module" kits?

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Post by jetboatguy » Sat Nov 10, 2007 6:21 pm

fremitus wrote:i guess i'll throw my litle 'sleeper' in the ring. got it for $400 on ebay a couple of years ago. McCurdy PE2600. 6 channel discrete box of love...


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Hmm, so you're the one who outbid me... bastard !

I have four of these pres in my rack as well.
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Post by inverseroom » Sat Nov 10, 2007 6:47 pm

As long as this one is back, I should mention that I ended up buying a Soundcraft M8, liking it pretty well, then selling it when i found a Hill Multimix.

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Post by Seamonster » Mon Nov 12, 2007 4:35 am

On the first page of this thread, Creature.of.Habit mentioned the old Yamaha RM804. I?ve got one of those, which I loved in the 80?s, but haven?t used since. At the time, I wasn?t very gear-savvy and didn?t have much sense of what the rap on those mixers might have been, good or bad. I?d be curious if anyone who knows that beast has any opinions about it. (I mean, one can infer a certain amount from its having RCA I/O?s, etc.)

Relatedly, what can I do with it these days? I?ve got more and better preamps, enough that I can?t foresee ever needing those as ?extras? (I?d sooner rent something better). By my recollection, it?s not like those pres were crazy-distinctive anyway.

But I?m thinking there must be some creative use for it. Like using its faders together with a cheap 8-track deck as ?the poor man?s Mellotron? (an idea written up in TapeOp a few years back). But I don?t have a spare deck. Any other uses, wacky or otherwise?

I listed it on CL once or twice for peanuts, but it may as well have been invisible there.

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