Esthetically your favorite piece of gear.

weatherbox · Post by **weatherbox** » Sat Feb 09, 2008 4:13 pm

Ryan Silva wrote:I quit

I'd like to see a current pic. I think that was from near when he first signed onto Gearslutz. I think he's since bought every piece of gear that gets talked up there... he's Shakira's producer, if I remember right, has a bunch of Latin grammys, and is the world's 14th strongest economic presence. There were pics of his live room too. It matched the racks. Massive. I guess it's good to see that at least somewhere in the world bigger studios aren't struggling.

shedshrine · Post by **shedshrine** » Sat Feb 09, 2008 6:15 pm

Mid 1990's domestic Japanese minidisc player/recorders from Akihabara:
Supposedly Shakira's mixdown medium of choice..

weatherbox · Post by **weatherbox** » Sat Feb 09, 2008 8:31 pm

shedshrine wrote:Mid 1990's domestic Japanese minidisc player/recorders from Akihabara:
Supposedly Shakira's mixdown medium of choice..

If you playback on a Walkman, you get that fat analog tape sound.

creature.of.habit · Post by **creature.of.habit** » Sun Feb 10, 2008 4:04 am

shedshrine wrote:
Electricide wrote:why is anyone posting in this thread without providing pictures?

Beauty in the eye of the beholder

Best looking cassette 4 tracker

Darfking's pic from the "The Tascam 388" thread:

Best looking studio rack of gear:

i have to disagree with you on the 4 track thing...the 144 and the 244 are the best looking ones by far!

there's like 3 or 4 things i'dd really like to have in that rack...but the whole thing just make me nautious...really excessive..i bet the guy records "great" music to own a wall like that

creature.of.habit · Post by **creature.of.habit** » Sun Feb 10, 2008 4:18 am

weatherbox wrote:he's Shakira's producer

ah! makes sense now.
i'dd trade all that shit if that meant recording some decent music though.

i gotta agree with everyone about the hamptones as well...gorgeous looking.

Scodiddly · Post by **Scodiddly** » Sun Feb 10, 2008 5:30 am

I'm a big fan of old tube testers, personally. I ought to dig out a few from the collection and take photos.

getreel · Post by **getreel** » Sun Feb 10, 2008 8:43 am

Scodiddly wrote:I'm a big fan of old tube testers, personally. I ought to dig out a few from the collection and take photos. Cool

Thought I'd dig mine out for the only photo op it might ever get...

Scodiddly · Post by **Scodiddly** » Sun Feb 10, 2008 11:43 am

Luckily I've got one here at home this weekend. This is my trusty Heathkit TC-2 Tube Checker - the first one I ever bought (garage sale, $5), and still the most reliable one I own. The rest are more pretty and more advanced, but I haven't gotten around to properly fixing any of them.

weatherbox · Post by **weatherbox** » Sun Feb 10, 2008 12:05 pm

creature.of.habit wrote:
weatherbox wrote:he's Shakira's producer
ah! makes sense now.
i'dd trade all that shit if that meant recording some decent music though.

i gotta agree with everyone about the hamptones as well...gorgeous looking.

I don't think I've heard more than one of her songs, but who am I to judge the value of her stuff anyways. *That* picture doesn't have much stuff that interests me but I think it's cool that somewhere there's still apparently a strong demand for a big room sort of facility what with all the sad stories you hear about places closing down and being replaced with ITB mix rooms.

helmuth · Post by **helmuth** » Sun Feb 10, 2008 1:10 pm

Scodiddly wrote:Luckily I've got one here at home this weekend. This is my trusty Heathkit TC-2 Tube Checker - the first one I ever bought (garage sale, $5), and still the most reliable one I own. The rest are more pretty and more advanced, but I haven't gotten around to properly fixing any of them.

Ooooh, I love the "BAD - ? - GOOD". I bet all the mastering places have VU's like that these days.

linus · Post by **linus** » Sun Feb 10, 2008 3:05 pm

linus wrote:It's probably because I just got it back from the shop but my Binson Echorec has a backlit, etched plexi faceplate, a gold hammered body, cool knobs, and a "magic eye" tube to indicate input signal. The italians know how to make pretty gear.

creature.of.habit · Post by **creature.of.habit** » Sun Feb 10, 2008 4:44 pm

weatherbox wrote:
creature.of.habit wrote:
weatherbox wrote:he's Shakira's producer
ah! makes sense now.
i'dd trade all that shit if that meant recording some decent music though.

i gotta agree with everyone about the hamptones as well...gorgeous looking.
I don't think I've heard more than one of her songs, but who am I to judge the value of her stuff anyways. *That* picture doesn't have much stuff that interests me but I think it's cool that somewhere there's still apparently a strong demand for a big room sort of facility what with all the sad stories you hear about places closing down and being replaced with ITB mix rooms.

i guess i'm not judging value as much as i'm judging taste.

but yeah, 90% of that rack/wall would do jack for the stuff i do.

trodden · Post by **trodden** » Sun Feb 10, 2008 6:09 pm

Ryan Silva wrote:A recent post talked about replacing knobs on a Pre-Amp and it got me thinking of a silly little question.

Who makes the prettiest out board gear?

What makes your rack look stellar?

I can't decide between the 24 ozx can of beer or my blue fuckmas lights. they bothh heslp me.

weatherbox · Post by **weatherbox** » Sun Feb 10, 2008 6:34 pm

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

The green Altec stuff looks great. All the old broadcast limiters... many old tube mic power supplies look amazing. I think the UA 2-610 is pretty visually great in a similar way to some of the Shadow Hills stuff - except the big compressor. That thing is straight outta the old War of the Worlds radio broadcast. On it's own planetary ring of cool, aesthetically.

trodden · Post by **trodden** » Sun Feb 10, 2008 6:38 pm

boring.s

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