Esthetically your favorite piece of gear.

RefD · Post by **RefD** » Sun Feb 10, 2008 7:14 pm

trodden wrote:boring.s

i smell jealousy, Mr. Distressor Jar!

calaverasgrandes · Post by **calaverasgrandes** » Sun Feb 10, 2008 10:06 pm

out of my own gear I guess my favorite looking one is the Summit 2BA221. Its only a half rack jobby, but the knobs and switches are cool.
My Yamaha PM180 and Korg Poly 800 are ugly ugly ugly pieces of gear.
Heck most of my stuff is hard on the eyes. If it didnt come that way it has a habit of getting holes drilled in it so I can stick another knob or switch on it.
And I dont know why but I can never get them to line up very aesthetically?

trodden · Post by **trodden** » Mon Feb 11, 2008 12:10 am

RefD wrote:
trodden wrote:boring.s
i smell jealousy, Mr. Distressor Jar!

not even..

i think distressor jar is goings to be "mix plus protools" jar.. ,,mmmm as long as it doesn't go to booze and dru gs... "investment" is the word i'm looking for, not strippers and cocaine.

>Mojave_Gary< · Post by **>Mojave_Gary<** » Mon Feb 11, 2008 6:22 am

shedshrine wrote:Ach! all racked up they are greater than the sum of their parts too i reckon.

A mint Tascam 388 with the 10 vu's and the smoked plexi see through reel to reel cover..

..

I have to agree.... my 388 just has a look about it....

calaverasgrandes · Post by **calaverasgrandes** » Mon Feb 11, 2008 7:09 am

when I had one of these that was my coolest looking, and HEAVIEST piece of gear. I think the front panel is 3/4 inch thick stainless? Pretty sure it would stop a 45 magnum.

Ryan Silva · Post by **Ryan Silva** » Mon Feb 11, 2008 4:14 pm

i'dd trade all that shit if that meant recording some decent music though.

Perfect!!! that may end up as my handle

jpmorris · Post by **jpmorris** » Tue Feb 12, 2008 2:10 pm

I think it has to be the recorders:

(I have two - the other one doesn't look quite so pretty as the rack is bronze-coloured)

This might not count since it's a bit ratty cosmetically speaking, but hey, I'm pretty sure it's older than I am:

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The one thing I loathe is equipment with blue LEDs in it. One of these days I'm going to open them up and swap them out for green or red ones...

calaverasgrandes · Post by **calaverasgrandes** » Tue Feb 12, 2008 4:10 pm

really? What is this aversion people have to LEDs. I even see customer revies of computer and audio gear in which people complain that the led is too bright?
THEY CAN NEVER BE TOO BRIGHT!
I love the glow of all the LEDS on my gear. It looks like space 1999 or star trek with the lights off.

jpmorris · Post by **jpmorris** » Tue Feb 12, 2008 4:49 pm

calaverasgrandes wrote:really? What is this aversion people have to LEDs. I even see customer revies of computer and audio gear in which people complain that the led is too bright?

I don't know... it's just the sudden overuse of the blue ones which bugs me somehow. Perhaps it's because I've been trying to recreate a studio based on 1970s-1980s technology and this little blue things come along and try to spoil it :P

Thinking about it, one of the items which I have really kept entirely for its aesthetics is the Lynx MK1 synchronizer. I use a TASCAM ATS500 for sync, but keep the Lynx as an SMPTE reader since it has a nice, clear timecode display made of 7-segment LEDs - the ATS has a tiny green LCD panel which you have to get right up to the machine to read.

Marc Alan Goodman · Post by **Marc Alan Goodman** » Tue Feb 12, 2008 5:18 pm

weatherbox wrote:I'd probably stack these in a sexy sandwich and spraypaint them gold. maybe the ugliest things i've ever seen.

Fact. I almost forgot how ugly those focusrite green's are. They always looked a little too Jurassic Park for me. That MoPhatt is pretty wicked though. I might buy into that just to spice my rack up a little.

-marc alan goodman

mertmo · Post by **mertmo** » Wed Feb 13, 2008 9:48 am

That I own...

UA M610
Pro VLA
Pro MPA
Ashly SC66-A
Ashly SC50
TC Electronic 2240 EQ
DBX 128II
Alesis ADAT (blackface) meh... sue me, I think they look cool. certainly cooler
than my stupid looking 001 interface. which leads me too...

lamest: Line 6 echo pro and mod pro. Amazing pieces but WAY too many blingy lights...
so distracting that I actually leave them turned off unless I am using them right then.

RefD · Post by **RefD** » Wed Feb 13, 2008 10:03 am

trodden wrote:
RefD wrote:
trodden wrote:boring.s
i smell jealousy, Mr. Distressor Jar!
not even..

i think distressor jar is goings to be "mix plus protools" jar.. ,,mmmm as long as it doesn't go to booze and dru gs... "investment" is the word i'm looking for, not strippers and cocaine.

i'm just playin, trods.

btw, the new baby arrived yesterday at 5:19PM and all is well!

MoreSpaceEcho · Post by **MoreSpaceEcho** » Wed Feb 13, 2008 11:17 am

congrats refD!!!!!!

calaverasgrandes wrote: THEY CAN NEVER BE TOO BRIGHT!

incorrect. the blue LED on my benchmark DAC-1 is way the hell too bright. as it sits right in front of me, i had to put a piece of electrical tape over it so as to not go blind.

that binson echorec is SWEET.

Electricide · Post by **Electricide** » Wed Feb 13, 2008 11:25 am

if you hate blue leds, stay away from the distressor's nuke setting.

Ryan Silva · Post by **Ryan Silva** » Wed Feb 13, 2008 11:40 am

Electricide wrote:if you hate blue leds, stay away from the distressor's nuke setting.

or the Trident s20. Ouch

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