Soundcraft "16 into 2" mixer - was Elliott Smith's

Knights Who Say Neve · Post by **Knights Who Say Neve** » Wed Apr 04, 2007 6:09 pm

Take Elliot Smith's name out of the equation and 300 bucks seems like a more reasonable price. It's a 70's bare-bones live sound board, nothing more. What the association with a fameous dead guy adds to the price I'm not sure, but probably not 1700 dollars.

creature.of.habit · Post by **creature.of.habit** » Wed Apr 04, 2007 6:49 pm

dwlb wrote:
littlesongs wrote:Mr. Crane has a new home in a new state and a new studio in Portland to worry about this very moment, so please cut him a bit of slack. I think that under normal circumstances, when he is merely busy as hell, he might have had an afternoon to dedicate to testing this gear before he posted.
I'm sorry, I had no idea we were being so unreasonable.

Post by **TapeOpLarry** » Wed Apr 04, 2007 9:38 pm

If it is only worth $300 then that's what I'll sell it for. I don't make any money on this sale and the several thousand was what someone else told me they sell for. I see that one didn't even sell for $300 on eBay recently so I'm starting to question "several thousand"! I was just hoping the Elliott conncetion might get people interested, but I doubt he ever used it for anything (how?) and just hoped people would notice it and think about buying it. I'm just selling it for his family...

syrupcore · Post by **syrupcore** » Wed Apr 04, 2007 10:37 pm

I really think you should take it to ebay. fans will get his family more money.

JGriffin · Post by **JGriffin** » Wed Apr 04, 2007 10:58 pm

TapeOpLarry wrote:If it is only worth $300 then that's what I'll sell it for. I don't make any money on this sale and the several thousand was what someone else told me they sell for. I see that one didn't even sell for $300 on eBay recently so I'm starting to question "several thousand"! I was just hoping the Elliott conncetion might get people interested, but I doubt he ever used it for anything (how?) and just hoped people would notice it and think about buying it. I'm just selling it for his family...

Prepal lists the 200 and 200B boards at $405 and $469 respectively. This board may be related to the 200 series but older. So $300 might be in the ballpark. Is it the old brown Soundcraft or a newer blue one?

Post by **TapeOpLarry** » Thu Apr 05, 2007 11:01 am

It's black, in a silver flight case. See this auction, it's the same.

http://cgi.ebay.com.au/Vintage-Soundcra ... dZViewItem

JGriffin · Post by **JGriffin** » Thu Apr 05, 2007 11:14 am

Wow, too bad that dude couldn't post the picture right-side up!

Yeah, that's even older than I thought. It predates the ones I was thinking of.

Is that a 4-band EQ or a 3-band with sweepable mid?

I agree that it may not be terribly useful given its simplicity, but it might do the job of --and sound a bit better than-- a Mackie 1604 (minus the 2 extra busses)...

Post by **TapeOpLarry** » Thu Apr 05, 2007 1:48 pm

No line inputs...

JGriffin · Post by **JGriffin** » Thu Apr 05, 2007 2:05 pm

True, but more mic inputs than a 1604...

(edit) can't actually remember whether the 1604 had the "only some of the channels sport mic pres" feature.

anyway, carry on.

moogplayer · Post by **moogplayer** » Thu Apr 05, 2007 5:18 pm

I agree that the Series 1 (or 1S) is worth only about $250-$400 in the open market. They do sound decent though, better than the 200B and on par with the Series II. The Sowter trannys sound sweet as does the EQ. Some of the Series 1 desks had channels with sweep EQ, similar to the Series II.

Sorry - I'm not an ES fan...but I do hold a torch for Soundcraft Series 1 and 2 desks. Sure they have miserable pots that are crackly to hell at this age, but decent sound overall and nice DAW front end, especially for the $$$. If the Series 1 had more outputs it would be the shite.

inverseroom · Post by **inverseroom** » Thu Apr 05, 2007 5:20 pm

ES pedigree and/or possible shittiness aside, that is a really cool looking mixer.

rushofblood · Post by **rushofblood** » Sat Apr 07, 2007 4:17 am

inverseroom wrote:ES pedigree and/or possible shittiness aside, that is a really cool looking mixer.

word, I'd pay 300 bucks just based on that.

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