Why??
Well...I'm packing up my digs & moving west. Out to central IL...Bloomington, IL to be exact where Tony SanFilippo & I are going to be building a massive little studio & production company thing in that college town.
Yup. Massive & little. Go figure that one out.
I've spent many, many hours over this Trident...made a TON of records with it and knock on wood, in the six years I've owned this console I can count the downtime on one hand with fingers to spare.
This desk is going to be in service until the day someone buys it?which needs to be in the next 6-8 weeks otherwise my plans are gonna get shot right to hell! Feel free to drop by my pad (just outside of Morristown, NJ) with your own harddrive, load it onto the DAW and give the desk a test drive, no obligations!
'Da Details
Trident 65, built in approx. 1991-92 in a 24x16x16 configuration. So that's 24 full mic/line inputs, 16 busses, 16 tape/aux returns (w/2-band EQ & 5-sends) plus 4 effects returns for a total of 44 inputs in a VERY tiny footprint.
The console is 51"w X 30" deep and is sitting on its original issue stand. There's a 14-space, black metal-frame sidecar rack for patchbays, converters and whatever else you'd like to have right there. Total width of the desk & sidecar butted together is six feet.
This deal includes a 288-point patchbay comprised of a half-dozen patchbays, enough balanced snakes to hook up the console & some outboard gear and a BAJILLION 1/4" TRS patchcables of various sorts.
Over the years I've amassed a bunch of spare parts for this desk and there are TWO spare channel strips, a pair of faders, extra pots, leds, switches, faders, lots of IC's & other bits that are getting harder to find all the time since they were mostly custom made parts.
This desk is super clean! The previous owner had the power supply redone in 2000, just before I bought the desk. There are NO major problems with the console. I pulled it all apart and cleaned/scrubbed the interior, all the molex connectors and the motherboard pins etc. in 2003. Not only is all of the silk screening intact but there are virtually ZERO noisy switches, pots or other such nonsense! Most of the VU bulbs are out (typical!), buss three has no output (might be a patchbay thing), the meter on 14 is out and I think there's a dead micamp somewhere in the first 10 channels, it's been YEARS since I've used them but I'll check 'em all out soon. Other then those minor niggles it's running smooth as silk.
I'm probably gonna miss this.
Channels & general info!
-24 channels with mic/line switch, pad on the micamp & polarity reverse on both. Line gain is a +/- 10dB pot with center detent
-4 band EQ w/variable high pass filter. HP from 0-400Hz; low shelf @ 100Hz;100Hz to 1.5kHz low-mid; 1kHz-15kHz high-mid;10kHz high-shelf
-8 Aux sends!!! Switchable in groups of 4
-Mute group, mute & solo (non-destructive) on EVERYTHING with solid LED's
-16 buss outputs
-16 Tape/Aux returns with 2-band shelving EQ and 5 aux sends
-Inserts & all console I/O is 1/4" TRS or XLR
-Console is 51? wide x 30? deep
Master Section!
-Dim, mute, mono on main monitor output
-Talkback assigns to auxs and/or busses
-Three 2-track returns
-8 master Aux send volumes/solos
-Two sets of monitor outputs, connect your near fields & mains!
-built in 3-frequency oscillator
-mute group master
Misc Stuff!
-Full manual with schematics & charted mods
-Two full spare channel strips
-Spare IC's, faders, pots, switches & other various bits
-LOTS of cabling, enough to hook up the desk & some outboard!
-Half-dozen Furman 48-point TRS patchbays & spare modules
-14-space 'Z' sidecar rack
I?m looking for $7500 and that?s pretty firm, but wave some cash in my face...
Feel free to ask questions; moose@mooseaudio.net or 201.674.1308
Check out more pics!!
http://s24.photobucket.com/albums/c32/J ... g/Trident/
Thanks for looking,
