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My wife and I are heading overseas for 12-18 months on one of those once in a lifetime experiences. We're off to work in a developing country (my wife does mental health social work) and who knows what the future holds. So I'm selling off a large part of my studio and associated equipment and here's the first part of the list. All of the equipment is working and in good order, lots has been customised or purpose built and there are quite a few vintage pieces. I'll be putting up photos as I take them but go ahead, ask questions and make reasonable offers. I will put this stuff on ebay/gearsultz etc in a week or so but I thought I'd give you guys first shot and I am open to certain trades or other negotiations but no sexual favours.

oh and for those interested, I'm not getting out of the business. I'm keeping some key items, most of my mics and moving to a streamlined portable setup and will do mix and recording work wherever we end up...

Protools HD 9 and 10 licenses
2x PCIe HD Accel cards
1x Aurora Lynx 16 with LT-HD card for interfacing with the HD cards
1x 2007 Mac Pro Quad intel, 22" LCD screen, keyboard. This has a fanless graphics card which makes the computer very quiet. Rock solid set up, well as rock solid as any system can be. Can't sell this immediately as I'm still using it till around mid-June. Not sure how much this is worth as a package but 4-5k for the PT, 2500-3k for the lynx and LTHD card and 500-750 for the computer and I'd like to sell as a package. SOLD

Studio Desk made from solid tas oak table with 10ru rack space on either side of the central workspace. All done by a friend of mine to my design, it looks great and feels good to sit at too. Can't sell till mid July.

UAD quad card. I wont be selling my licenses for plugins so this will come with only the standard plugs but they regularly run sales and plugins are cheap. Will be available after July 12.

Mics
2x AKG C451b $1000 SOLD
1x blue "ball" active dynamic $100 SOLD
1x audix d2 dynamic $100
1x valve ribbon mic (Chinese but excellent) $300
1x british ribbon (small, 1960s) $200. Actually this is a lustraphone mic not a reslo. TRADED


Mic Pres
4ch SSL9k diy (1ru) Excellent build and sound. $750 SOLD

1x 2ch Neve 51 series channel strips racked by rob squire with mic, line, eq, limiter. full featured and killer (2ru) $2750

2x auditronics 501 channel strips. 4 band inductor based eq with filters and original transformer output. Racked by Barney from modules taken from Francis Ford Coppolas private studio. (2ru) $1800 TRADED

2x 4ch MCI mic pre from MCI 600 mic pre modules with original console output transformers (1ru racked by me) $750 each Both SOLD

1x 2ba221 and TLA50 summit audio mic pre/compressor. 2 half rack modules in a 1ru rack frame, very nice valve units. $950 for both SOLD

1x JBL 24ch mic pre 7510b. 24 channel mic amps in a 3ru case with noise gates (defeatable) and a mono bus as well as direct outs. Never got around to setting this up like I wanted to but a ton of good mic preamps in a small package. Lots of net info and serious bang for buck. $500 SOLD


EQ's/Compressors
1ch DBX160vu vintage single unit with XLR i/o added on rear $850 SOLD

2ch Deane Jensen 3 band swept EQ, jfet based with dymo tape front panel (vintage modules racked in 1ru) $300

2ch Kajaani EQ 2 bands with filters very rare and fully discrete (vintage modules racked in 1ru) $650 SOLD

1x Manely ELOP 2 channel opto limiting compressor. Sweet compressor and Manleys take on the LA2a style compression. (240v) Turns out this is a rare switchable mains power. $1800 SOLD

2x Gyraf Pultec EQs. Superb sounding passive inductor valve eqs with lundahl i/o and NOS valves. One of my favourite DIY projects (2ru per channel) $750 each SOLD

2ch Nite EQ diy w/no knobs. Great sweetening EQ with the 'air' band everyone talks about. (diy 1ru) $250 SOLD

2ch ADM EQ 70's 4 band inductor based eq with fully stepped frequency and gain knobs. Output transformerss are ex-ABC (racked modules in 1ru) $650 SOLD

1x 2ch McCurdy EQs simple 3 band broadcast eq, balanced i/o. $350

2ch w491 eq neumann copy, very flexible 4 band eq with swept frequencies. Hand engraved front panel and a sweet sounding unit. (diy 1ru) $550 SOLD

2x Urei La4 (w rack kit) fully refurbished with new factory specc'd opto cells and LEDs, updated opamps in audio circuits. Would be had to find a better operating pair of LA4a and the faceplate looks great. $1500

2ch MXR limiter, excellent limiter which uses PWM operation rather than VCA, FET etc. (1ru, 110v) $400 SOLD

2ch PRR varimu DIY. Great poormans Varimu compressor. Solidstate signal path except for valve based gain control element. Well built in a sweet looking case with vintage VU, great for a master compressor and for smashing things up, going to miss this. (DIY 3ru 110v) $700 SOLD

1x DBX900 series with 3x 903 comps, 2x aphex dominators and 4x aphex expressors in 3ru modular rack. $1500 SOLD

1x Moseley TFL-280 vintage broadcast limiter. UTC transformers, edgewise meter, can be smooth but loves to be smash and grab. I've moved the screwdriver controls to the front panel and switched it over to 240v. (1ru) $300 SOLD

Lots of modules and parts which I'll update as I uncover them.

2x SSL501 Mic preamps with Jensen input tx. $600 for the pair SOLD
4x Ward Beck 462b parametric EQ $200 each or 350 a pair SOLD
1x Ward Beck 522 EQ ?
4x Ward Beck summing modules with 3 band EQ ?
lots of trimax 600:600 transformers
1x Rola valve mic pre module. untested but bought working $150 SOLD
1x 240v-110v stepdown transformer $75 SOLD

Lots of goodies here.

Pm'd

All the gear is 240v except where noted.

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I also have a valley people 610 stereo VCA compressor/expander. good condition, the faceplate has a few marks and the rest of the case is showing some wear but stills sounds great. $550 SOLD

2channel Tapco 4400 Spring Reverb. In excellent physical and electrical condition, it almost looks new! two channels of spring reverbs with individual graphic eq, i/o gains and dry/wet control. Sounds great but not quite as nice as my BX15. $300 SOLD

1x Astor vintage inductor based eq module. fixed hi and lo bands with a boost only presence filter. got three of these from Rick and two are racked up and sounding very sweet. I didn't use this one because it has a nice faceplate and the other two I made new faceplates for. transformer i/o and fully discrete, I was going to slip this into a rack with a 312 preamp for a channel strip. $400

1x Trident s800 eq clone. Got this from PeterC who did the clone design. This was this was the prototype and it works perfectly. Was going to rack this with a 312 pre amp too but didn't get around to it. $100 SOLD

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dbx 160vu

Studio Desk

elop and la4a pair

pultecs, neve 51 strips

mccurdy 3 band eq

moseley tfl-280

mxr dual limiter

w492 eq

Vari Mu

Valley 610

s800 eq

Astor Eq

Auditronics 501

Actually the ribbon is a Lustraphone ribbon

Tapco 4400 Spring Reverb ON HOLD

Rola Mic Pre module
on HOLD

Can attest to the quality of the JBL 7510b. I've got one with 16 channels. It's not without problems (got to get it fixed), but the mic pres are pretty fat. Works a treat on drums.

Myles, can you confirm that you have the Phoenix input connectors (I'd be surprised if you didn't).

Hi David, yes I think that is correct. I haven't looked at it for awhile but I have to dig it up to take some photos.

Keep me updated on the desk...

what would you like to know rustyO?

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I've got 2 of these 553 copies. 3 band eq with 2 frequencies per band, inductor based with a DOA output driving an API2503 style transformer with an opamp input. Really fat sounding eq with a sweet top end. DOA is a yamaha ne80200. Fits the api 500 series rack. $300 each


MCI 4 channel mic pre:

mylesgm wrote:what would you like to know rustyO?

Tyrekicking for dimensions?

Ah, I took it as you wouldn't be looking at selling till mid-June? There is some photos on GS if I remember?

Re the JBL 7510 input connectors:

There was a chap on ebay selling 3-pin Phoenix connectors... think he's still around. That's where I got mine. The original connector was a 12-pin (4 channels per card). Using 4 3-pin connectors makes a much tighter fit.

Anyway, they're not made of unobtainium.

yeah there are some photos on gearslutz from when I had it made but its about 2mtrs wide maybe slightly more and 1.2ish deep. It was originally a family dining table if that gives you an idea about height. The legs come off for transport but it is a heavy two person carry. I always get comments on it and I'll probably just make something similar when I get back...

Woah! Solid haul Miles, good luck with the trip mate

Oh and noticed the DIY 2254C there, if you're going to sell let me know - in the market for one, cheers.

Sounds like a great adventure Myles, is your wife doing an avi or similar?

My wife works in international / womens health and we did a similar thing a while back (with my work first off), it was a wonderful life altering experience.

Best of luck.

My wife is doing an AYAD which I think is run by the same organisation as the AVI. Where did you go and what did you do? I've no idea what I'm going to get up to...

Thanks Richard but there is still more to come! Not sure that I'll sell the 2254c, I like it too much. There are a number of other pieces that wont be going anywhere either but you can always make an offer and tempt me...

I did an ayad in lao, doing business development with a local record label.

Then we were in central Vietnam and Hanoi for my wife's work while I contracted for a client in Singapore .

Where are you headed?

Well its like it'll be either Hanoi or the Philippines. I was in Lao last year, what a beautiful country and people! What sort of work did you do for the record label? I'd love to find some kind of production work over there. We also stopped in Hanoi last year which was exciting but very busy, not sure how I'll go in such a large and bustling city.
Any idea of work possibilities?

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May have some leads if you end up in Hanoi, in Adelaide this weekend. Will drop you a pm when I'm home on Monday and have access to my laptop.

That'd be most appreciated Dave.

Hey Myles, I was in Hanoi and most of Vietnam last year. Pretty limited studio wise up north, there is the odd place set up in houses etc. Bit more action down south in HCM, but if you find Hanoi busy then Saigon will do your head in. At least the internet is good.
I actually really liked Hanoi. Love Vietnam.
My missus' company has offices in Hanoi and Saigon. We are anglin to move over there for a while in the next couple of years if we can swing it. We could just about live off the rent from our place here.
Have you been to Phu Quoc of the south coast? Now that's somehwere I want to retire..
Good luck it sounds awesome. I'm jealous.

yeah we went to Ho Chi Minh and it was nuts... the taxi ride from our hotel to the airport was a little over an hour, we went a little over 6km at roughly 4-5k an hour. The guy never got the car out of second gear the traffic was just so intense. Didn't make it any further south though but I did enjoy the country. Weird too because I have close family friends that fought in the vietnam war and we visited the war museum in HCM which was also intense...

I was in Phu Quoc in January- really lucky with the weather and it was incredible. Loved it.
I also love HCMC- I don't really like busy cities but something about that place just does it for me. Not a fan of Hanoi for some reason.

One of the good things I remember about hanoi was the fresh beer (bia hoi) that they were serving on the streets... tasty, cold, cheap, microbrewed beer that was just fantastic. And another thing was their incredible agility and control of motorbikes. I ride a bike everywhere but their skill was incredible. I was staying in a mountain village and hired a bike to tool around the countryside (tegan on the back) and we went down the mountainside to a few close villages. on the way down I'm having real trouble keeping this tiny bike upright on rough roads with creeks running across them, sometimes the road was the creek bed. But then we come around a corner and there is this dude riding a 125cc motorbike with a kitchen sized FRIDGE strapped across the back! not only was it a fridge but we passed him going back up and he had stopped at the side of the road to drink a beer out of his FULL FRIDGE he was taking up to sell in the village we were staying! Incredible...