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Even if it does sound like shit, I was thinking that it would make for a cool texture, an effect. i thought the same thing, but the sound is a farty 'speaker beyond it's capacity' kind of thing, not a Kinks 'razor the speakers' kind of thing. but you could always just wire the speaker straight to a...

i have a coupe of these that i have been playing with, not these brand exactly, but these are all similar. i've decided just to gut it, for a little one input tube, one output tube, one rectifier type circuit, but the power supply transformer is the biggest question. i wouldn't be able to jam one in...

thanks, that answers two questions i had, the other being "what is motorboating?" i guess i needed to rebuild the power supply anyway...

there is a weird hum in my console headphone out. instead of being constant like a ground loop, the hum starts out low and then sounds like a motorcycle as it "gets up to speed," eventually steadying out at a constant pitch. this does this every time i plug in a new set of headphones or a headphone ...

ha, i'd love that cp80, but i'm trying to save for a trip myself.

but in the abstract, what is any of this crap worth, really?

i find it hard to believe that tubes have been around for 90 years and this, if it works so well, has never been discovered by the hundreds of thousands of people who have worked with them.

also, you want the fuse on the positive side.

had a request for this from someone here and thought other people might be able to use it. man, did sony make great manuals back in the day. thanks to djimbe on this board, who i originally got this from.

http://www.sendspace.com/file/pzu0g4

do you guys do anything with the shield connections on the EF86? or whatever you call them, 2 and 7. and why the hell is the EF86 not in the RCA RC-30?

i like how they have the little laptop in the back so the tape op can check his email.

cgarges wrote:Let me say that Justin is one very cool, very straight-up dude. This is also a very cool-sounding console.

totes and totes.

i don't know what the model is, but i have the floor standing master room and it has two different sized springs in it, and you can get the two different sound from seperate outs. i'm not familiar with all their models but maybe the two are supposed to be different...? just a guess...

replace the relays.

i scored a second space echo today...craigslist...$100!!

peoduction is the big one for me. if i produced a record, really produced it beyond the engineering, it's a separate line from the other two.