Sound Workshop - Console Rebuild - Part 5 Final.....ish! 

Thanks! Indeed, I need to do a little more work now its been up and runnning for a few years. Some re-capping is required .. just need to get around to putting in an order and getting started :D

@@100ThingsIDo I don’t know why, but there’s something warmer to analog mixing than mixing digitally. I think it also takes more skill, especially when you have to maintain your own gear. That in itself is an almost forgotten art form

Thanks Ira! Its a very nice board! :D

I'll see what I can do, there is one called 'lets' mix' or something like that on the channel where you can hear me mixing with the console. You are lucky to have 2, I would love another bucket or 2 on mine :D

Hey SyncdAlien thanks :D

Thanks Willie! a few years ago I would never of atempted this, the more you do the more you learn :D Hopefully this weekend I'll release a video of me doing some mixing on it !

Also weird how they did not use bus cards with connectors but only cables for this build 🧐

Yes, unfortunatly one of the frustrating things about the console. It likes to take skin and blood when working on it from your knuckles thats for sure reading to disconnect the cables between other channels :D

I still might change them to analog meter's :D

Thanks Niall :D

Thanks, it was a huge task and it will never be a SSL or API but its sounds awesome :D

Thanks, its a great addition to the studio, there will be an update clip soon! :D

Nice, I hope yours goes well. There is nothing like a console in the studio :D

I will possibly do the master bus in a future segment and replace the poor power supply thats on its last leg :D

Thanks.. still going strong although time to start rebuilding the Caps on the strips I think :D

Thanks for watching it Spacey Face :D I will do an update soon!

Yes indeed, it sounds huge! I have to do something a little more beat driven to do a demo with at some point :D

I will do indeed, but time to get back to some Synth content also for a while :D

Thanks mad zoo! Really pleased so many people enjoyed it :D

Thanks :D

There is more to come ..... :D

I started in March 2019 :D

Hey Markus, hope you and Organaut are doing OK in this pandemic madness! Thanks for checking out the clip :D

Yeh, I got lucky with the master section. There is still quite a bit to do with it but will get onto that soon. Next steps for me is i'm going to add a Fairlight MFX 3+ harddrive system and try getting out of the DAW and going back to recording tracks directly using outboard. I'll do another update soon! :D

BTW if you need any help let me know!

I keep playing with the idea of using the MIC pre's with the PAD in for the Fairlight. Nice board to work on for sure :D

heheh Yeh. Like most projects I seem to get 80% there and get very bored :P Its complete will power to get the job done. I like your Sequence of the day. I'll keep checking them out :D

@@100ThingsIDo Well, I'm still realistically very close to the 0%; after checking electrolytics in the power supply and subsequently every module, I decided I might as well spend a lot of time to try and do it properly. I'll probably reach that stage of boredom relatively quickly.

This is also a great solution, especially when you have different sizes on the same face :D

@@100ThingsIDo i will ABSOLUTELY lose screws if i don't haha

@@antigen4 ha! we all hopefully learn from our own foolishness :D

I will, i'm getting something in the coming weeks that will enable me to get really good use from the console... keep an eye out :D

Thanks man! Sorry I can't remember and I have to tear down the bridge to see what they are. I'll check soon. Last time I look at prices they were about $40 each and I could only find 5 and I would need almost 40! :D

@@100ThingsIDo hopefully there is a modern equivalent or maybe an arduino hack? Enjoyed these videos, cheers

Yep, I use it all the time. I'm at the moment doing a lot of mastering of my tracks to start dropping them soon :D

I think I spend around $400 on parts and paint :D it was a lot cheaper than I was expecting. I still want to replace the core of the power supply. :D

Yep... One day I will get around to it. Working on the Meter bridge at the moment .. thats a world of pain! :D

@@100ThingsIDo - did you have to get docs on it or are you just diving in and figuring it out. I ask because i'm working on plans to create my own for a 24x8x2 soundcraft spirit studio board. using stuff found on ebay for the meters...and then hoping to add an RTA freq display. Want to be able to take outputs from inserts and then make the RTA switchable thru an arduino or something like that. or maybe just use a raspberry pi chip/board and do an LCD output to a 7" screen. but it's gonna take me a year or more to do part time. So, this is why your project interests me...I had hoped your bridge worked and was looking forward to seeing it lit...or at least seeing the board in your studio tour...which i didn't see.

@@ruby2thursday Yes I have a lot of schematics for the board (most of it). The Meter bridge is not factory so no schematics for it.. The console will be featured in Part #3 hopefully released this weekend :D

@@100ThingsIDo sweet!

Roland TB-03 :D

@@100ThingsIDo ahaha ; so many clones out there :p thanks for the reply :)

@@LouisSerieusement Indeed, I own 3 myself :D

@@100ThingsIDo what other clones do you own ? I have a modded diy X0XB0X, an MB33 retro, and, luckily, since 2weeks, a TT303 MK1, which I waited for so long (2years !) before actually having the money and the luck to find one for decent price :D people say clones are all the same but they are definitely not, all of them have some kind of personality that makes them unique

Maybe check the Sound workshop facebook group ? :D

LM3XX I can't remember the exact model.. Foolishly I did not take a photo of the chips before I reassembled the meter bridge. The cheapest I could find replacements was going to make it over $1300 to repair ... its a third party bridge and its of dubious quality. Better to replace the whole thing Im thinking :D

@@100ThingsIDo ahh i see - i think those are the double segment chips that control 12 or so in one chip. you MAY be able to use a 'modern equivalent' that's freely available with relatively little tweaking you know ...

@@antigen4 Yeh, its more than possible something else would plug right in.. but like I said it runs on +/-15v... the power supply that runs the bridge is a hack and the mounting of the 4xLED banks is less than quality haha! Time will tell... I'm on a new project at the moment which is building a single voice Fairlight CMI :D

@@100ThingsIDo bravo! well after that all you need do is start recapping it!! :D

100% :D

TA-101 transistor array. I think they were a boutique manufactured component back in the 70's/80s :D

Thanks, I'm about to do something a little special for the console so its not currently for sale.... I'll do another part in the series soon and explain all :D

@@100ThingsIDo I have been a tech for 40+ years and I have been searching for one of these. Any tips and would you recommend? Thanks

@@TheSoundtec I'm assuming you're in Australia ? Keep your eyes open they really do seem to come up quite often here in Australia on sites like Gumtree. There is a sound workshop facebook group thats well worth joining also just called Sound Workshop a lot more active than the mailing list! :D

@@100ThingsIDo Actually I am in Canada.. Ill check out that Fakebook group.. Really love your videos.. Big thanks, Merry Christmas.

@@TheSoundtec Thanks, Hope you and your family and friends stay safe and have a great X-mas :D

Hey 0richbike, yes the PSU went POP and I had to rebuild it. Believe it or not the Diodes making the full bridge rectifier failed! Massive SNAP and blew some of the cables right out of the PSU on the right. I keep meaning to pick up a new one to be on the safe side... they are still made to this day! just pop into the chassis and cable up and you are done :D

@@100ThingsIDo ouch! look forwards to a run thru of the desk.

@@100ThingsIDo "the Diodes making the full bridge rectifier failed" how is this even possible ? Man what happened to this console ?