Vintec C3: new analog tube-equipped console in development

http://vintec-audio.de/vintec/index_E.htm
http://vintec-audio.de/vintec/c3_pic_E.htm

Not available yet. No info on price.

It does indeed look like something you could find in a space ship. I want one for my home studio.

I counted 26 tubes in just a single channel strip. 12 transformers per channel.

That's about 126 Watts per channel, just for the tubes! (assuming they're all 12AX7's)

There's a separate power supply module for each channel strip (go figure).

A 48 channel console will have 1248 tubes in the channel strips alone!

That's some serious heat....21,400 sBTU/Hr of it (from the tubes in the channel strips alone). Now also add in all your power supplies, solid state devices, and any indicators....jeez.

So....who the fuck is going to buy one of these crazy things? Will anyone be able to afford it?

geiginni wrote:So....who the fuck is going to buy one of these crazy things? Will anyone be able to afford it?

Most studios should easily be able to afford the 24 channel version. The 96 channel version will probably cost the same as a Lamborghini. I contacted them a while ago asking them for prices but they could not give me any. The C3 is still in development. It was supposed to have been available in 2004 but they keep getting delayed.

Still beats the living piss out of an AmateurTools system.

"Fuck! I think a tube went out!"

"Which one?"

"..."

"..."

"God help us."

Humpy Beard wrote:Most studios should easily be able to afford the 24 channel version. The 96 channel version will probably cost the same as a Lamborghini. I contacted them a while ago asking them for prices but they could not give me any. The C3 is still in development. It was supposed to have been available in 2004 but they keep getting delayed.

Still beats the living piss out of an AmateurTools system.

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A DAB SEETHES OVEN SOW PUP UNBEATABLE GIVETH TYPE ILK!!!! A BE SHELVING SPILLS TITS IT SEAFARE MOLTS MOUNT SOY TROUT...

vance wrote:HID MOSS TOSS OUT A DEBATABLE FEE FROTHY LOIS! A CHANCE HER LENS VENN HILT ON SCRIBBLE HI I PORTLY VOL OWNS? A ATHABASCAN DE GREMLINS OMIT ACCEDE THE WHO MILT NIT A CAB FEE RIGHTING MUSK POT OR DEC EEG HYMN VIOL UN TOY, THEMSELVES TIPI NIL IN LOT...A DAB SEETHES OVEN SOW PUP UNBEATABLE GIVETH TYPE ILK!!!! A BE SHELVING SPILLS TITS IT SEAFARE MOLTS MOUNT SOY TROUT...

What?

This console is scary and depressing too, kinda.

sleepkid wrote:They built it. It's blue.You can test it at their studio. Someone please do this.Damn, that's awesome. The tubes are overkill--I appreciate that type of build quality, but yeah, if you had a tube go out, it would probably be a real drag to locate it. Unfortunately, for all the build quality in the world, you never really know how it sounds until you've recorded great players through great equipment, and then started to mix on it.

They built it. It's blue.You can test it at their studio. Someone please do this.