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Re: What are you buying, What's on its way?
Posted: Wed Aug 07, 2024 2:42 pm
by thecr4ne
Got these for $400. 104 Line in AD's, 40 Line out DA's, bunch of AES ins and outs, serial, relay all kinds of routing, dsp, and potential to swap modular cards. Past life was apparently in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' Goldwyn Theater. The good folks at stagetec have provided documentation and software. Haven't tested yet. Interested to play around with it. What good is rack space anyway?
Re: What are you buying, What's on its way?
Posted: Wed Aug 07, 2024 5:22 pm
by twelvepoint
Fucking hell. I guess you’re good to go next time you need to record a symphony orchestra with spot mics on every player.
Re: What are you buying, What's on its way?
Posted: Wed Aug 07, 2024 6:03 pm
by Nico Adie
A 1995 Les Paul Standard in Ebony. I’ve been saving & selling off gear for aaaages for one and tomorrow it’ll be in my hands.
Re: What are you buying, What's on its way?
Posted: Wed Aug 07, 2024 7:34 pm
by TylerDeadPine
Working Marshall Lead 20 with the brown grill cloth, and a broken Tascam Porta MkII (sounds like a belt) for $250.
The lead 20 is necessary to complete my Vox pathfinder, fender vibrochamp, Marshall lead 20 Trio of practice amps.
The tascam is going to be fixed and sent to my nephew to be a teenager with.
Re: What are you buying, What's on its way?
Posted: Thu Aug 08, 2024 12:43 am
by Kniferide
thecr4ne wrote: Wed Aug 07, 2024 2:42 pm
Got these for $400. 104 Line in AD's, 40 Line out DA's, bunch of AES ins and outs, serial, relay all kinds of routing, dsp, and potential to swap modular cards. Past life was apparently in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' Goldwyn Theater. The good folks at stagetec have provided documentation and software. Haven't tested yet. Interested to play around with it. What good is rack space anyway?
Jebis. How and what interface are they, Madi? Something proprietary? What are the specs and can they even be used with a modern system of any kind? I'm so intrigued.
Re: What are you buying, What's on its way?
Posted: Thu Aug 08, 2024 4:46 am
by ErikG
Some months ago I said:
ErikG wrote: Tue Apr 09, 2024 6:27 pm
I can not find a decent unlined fretless bass anywhere.
Great news! Found one. They just released a fretless Epi Jack Casady bass (I have two with frets) and they were smart enough not to ruin it with fret lines.
Time to make some proggy experimental art-rock a la Sylvian/Eno/KC etc.
Re: What are you buying, What's on its way?
Posted: Thu Aug 08, 2024 9:15 am
by Owen
I got a FREE Epiphone Les Paul bass coming my way on Sat. Haven't even seen it, I love a good surprise.
Re: What are you buying, What's on its way?
Posted: Thu Aug 08, 2024 11:26 am
by thecr4ne
Kniferide wrote: Thu Aug 08, 2024 12:43 am
thecr4ne wrote: Wed Aug 07, 2024 2:42 pm
Got these for $400. 104 Line in AD's, 40 Line out DA's, bunch of AES ins and outs, serial, relay all kinds of routing, dsp, and potential to swap modular cards. Past life was apparently in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' Goldwyn Theater. The good folks at stagetec have provided documentation and software. Haven't tested yet. Interested to play around with it. What good is rack space anyway?
Jebis. How and what interface are they, Madi? Something proprietary? What are the specs and can they even be used with a modern system of any kind? I'm so intrigued.
So as I understand it, these were designed to work on a proprietary fiber backbone. That said, there are MADI modules available as well as AES67 and Dante and such, but these don't have them (I'd like to get some though). My guess is the analog rack was in one location, and the AES/EBU rack was in like a control room or something. The software runs on a PC, connects via usb or serial and controls all the routing and DSP and whatnot. Stagetec also makes digital consoles that interface directly with these, there's one listed on sound broker for like $30K....
As for does it work on a modern system...not yet. I'm currently in the process of trying to install WIndowsXP on something so I can update drivers and firmware to work with modern OS and current software version. These units were delivered in 2005, but they're still making them, and there's a compact version that looks like it's the size of a mac mini with 8 ins and 8 outs via DB25s, and it's already got the Dante and AES67 compatibility built in.
https://www.stagetec.com/en/nexus-audio-matrix
Apparently the AD conversion on these is pretty good, it converts via 4 chips at once and then recombines or something to minimize errors. My whole goal is to put together an out of the box workflow/hybrid recording setup. I've got a DDA DMR12 32 channel console and an Otari MX80 and a bunch of outboard shit I wanna play with. We'll see where it goes.
Re: What are you buying, What's on its way?
Posted: Sun Aug 11, 2024 8:33 am
by seby
thecr4ne wrote: Wed Aug 07, 2024 2:42 pm
Got these for $400. 104 Line in AD's, 40 Line out DA's, bunch of AES ins and outs, serial, relay all kinds of routing, dsp, and potential to swap modular cards. Past life was apparently in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' Goldwyn Theater. The good folks at stagetec have provided documentation and software. Haven't tested yet. Interested to play around with it. What good is rack space anyway?
Re: What are you buying, What's on its way?
Posted: Sun Aug 11, 2024 8:36 am
by seby
thecr4ne wrote: Thu Aug 08, 2024 11:26 am
Kniferide wrote: Thu Aug 08, 2024 12:43 am
thecr4ne wrote: Wed Aug 07, 2024 2:42 pm
Got these for $400. 104 Line in AD's, 40 Line out DA's, bunch of AES ins and outs, serial, relay all kinds of routing, dsp, and potential to swap modular cards. Past life was apparently in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' Goldwyn Theater. The good folks at stagetec have provided documentation and software. Haven't tested yet. Interested to play around with it. What good is rack space anyway?
Jebis. How and what interface are they, Madi? Something proprietary? What are the specs and can they even be used with a modern system of any kind? I'm so intrigued.
So as I understand it, these were designed to work on a proprietary fiber backbone. That said, there are MADI modules available as well as AES67 and Dante and such, but these don't have them (I'd like to get some though). My guess is the analog rack was in one location, and the AES/EBU rack was in like a control room or something. The software runs on a PC, connects via usb or serial and controls all the routing and DSP and whatnot. Stagetec also makes digital consoles that interface directly with these, there's one listed on sound broker for like $30K....
As for does it work on a modern system...not yet. I'm currently in the process of trying to install WIndowsXP on something so I can update drivers and firmware to work with modern OS and current software version. These units were delivered in 2005, but they're still making them, and there's a compact version that looks like it's the size of a mac mini with 8 ins and 8 outs via DB25s, and it's already got the Dante and AES67 compatibility built in.
https://www.stagetec.com/en/nexus-audio-matrix
Apparently the AD conversion on these is pretty good, it converts via 4 chips at once and then recombines or something to minimize errors. My whole goal is to put together an out of the box workflow/hybrid recording setup. I've got a DDA DMR12 32 channel console and an Otari MX80 and a bunch of outboard shit I wanna play with. We'll see where it goes.
Should sound awesome I hope! I no wonder what they sound like clipped?
