Sound Workshop - Vintage Studio Console rebuild - PART #1

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Part one in what will be an ongoing series as I bring my Studio Workshop Series 30 console back to life. In this part I give a bit of back story and begin the teardown. Unfortunately this episode ends a little abruptly as I changed the recording format on the camera and the software I normally use really does not like the different format and just crashes. Time to learn DaVinci as someone suggested a while back. For those who might not know the current final form of the Fairlight MFX is hidden deep within this software!

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@MyselfCollective 4 года назад

This is a great project, looking forward to the rest of the episodes! :)

@100ThingsIDo 4 года назад

I have quite a bit filmed so should go for a while. I am at the point now where the console is pretty much working besides 2 mix strips, but the meter bridge needs some thought :D

@amdenis Год назад

I used to work there at Sound Workshop back in the 1970’s in Long Island, New York when I was in high school- beginning when it was just a garage/downstairs company. I was young, and wound up learning to do a wide range of things that began my pro audio journey.

@100ThingsIDo Год назад

Wow, maybe you had something to do with my Series 30! Hope your doing well and enjoyed the series of videos :D

@amdenis Год назад

@@100ThingsIDo Sure do enjoy, thanks- great vids man. It’s funny, it had been so long that a couple years ago I had forgotten a few of the people’s names I worked with, and had to look them up. The company put a LOT of effort into matching components across the entire board, wouldn’t split batches let along vendors and had us do averaging across everything from temperature to input voltage. They really cared a lot, and it made me realize how much of an art analog could be.

@jesserickard1041 4 года назад

I cant wait to see you refurbish this old board. pretty cool!

@100ThingsIDo 4 года назад

I'm come on significantly since I shot that at the end of last summer :D

@pauliecerra9355 2 года назад

Just picked up a SW series 34 and you've got me inspired to do a solid thorough cleaning!

@100ThingsIDo 2 года назад

Good luck! Make sure you join the Facebook group if you are not already a member :D

@jbowmanmusic 4 года назад

Looks like a great project! Good luck!

@100ThingsIDo 4 года назад

It is, even now there is still a few things I want to do with it! Another 2 buckets of 8 would of made it perfect but you work with what you have :D

@digitaldesigner5284 Год назад

Very cool console.great project.

@100ThingsIDo Год назад

Thanks, I still use it all the time :D

@colinstu 4 года назад

Huge project! Didn't seem truly daunting until you started pulling units out.

@100ThingsIDo 4 года назад

Wait until you see once I have all the channel strips out. After a few days in I thought I had bitten off more than I could do (at the speed I needed to do it). :D

@elcasho 4 года назад

It begins!

@100ThingsIDo 4 года назад

8 months so far! ... 8 ... long..... months :D

@CrisBlyth 4 года назад

good start mate !!

@100ThingsIDo 4 года назад

Hey Chris, thanks for checking out the clip. Hope your time in LA went well, chat soon :D

@CrisBlyth 4 года назад

100 Things I Do Oh, I’m still in LA.. do you think people might like a MFX video on the CMI channel ?

@lukemelvinmusic 3 года назад

Fantastic project, really enjoying it so far! I always liked the idea of getting a hold of a couple of channel strips from a console and trying to wire them into a mini chassis of some kind, think it is too far outside my ability level after seeing this 😂 great work!

@100ThingsIDo 3 года назад

Its mostly just getting voltages correct. Other than that a little understanding of the schematic. The more you do it the more you get things wrong, the more you get wrong the more you learn how to fix :D

@lukemelvinmusic 3 года назад

@@100ThingsIDo Well maybe it’s worth giving it a whirl then! See if I can get a pair of nice channels on eBay and just dive in 😂

@100ThingsIDo 3 года назад

@@lukemelvinmusic Do it man! You will learn a lot and as along as you get help with anything High Voltage everything else can be fixed if you break it! I'm currently building a Fairlight CMI from parts ... 8 years ago I would not of known where to start with Digital Electronics :D

@lukemelvinmusic 3 года назад

@@100ThingsIDo OK I will start the search. I have wanted to have a nice analog stereo signal chain for recording but 1073s are a bit pricey so this seems like it could be a good alternative👌🏻thanks again!

@domdraper3221 3 года назад

Hey man are you good with the old electronics? I have an old Allen and heath series 8 and I did a full recap. One channel has a very quiet signal that only works if I smash the gain right up. Do you have any ideas what it could be?

@100ThingsIDo 3 года назад

Hey Dom, if I was to guess it would be either one of the Caps in that channel possibly could of been inserted in the wrong polarity .. or if not there will be some transistors or an OpAmp on the strip some place that possibly could be the problem! Hope that helps! :D

@domdraper3221 3 года назад

@@100ThingsIDo hey man cheers. I replaced all the caps again on that channel. I’ll get new op amps and try them. They are only a couple of € each. 👌

@montysonful 4 года назад

Looking for Part 2

@100ThingsIDo 4 года назад

Working on it :D

@montysonful 4 года назад

@@100ThingsIDo Good Luck

@100ThingsIDo 4 года назад

@@montysonful Hopefully out sometime this weekend ! :D

@dr.feelicks2051 4 года назад

Mmm, vintage hub for vintage grub. "Hear"s to headroom.

@100ThingsIDo 4 года назад

Nothing like some Vintage gear when its easy to maintain :D

@dr.feelicks2051 4 года назад

Back in the day I was on task wiring a vintage 16x4 1073 desk into the studio I worked at. Military grade audio modules! We bought it from local planetarium. No serious mileage. Lucky find. I make due with an Apollo now.

@100ThingsIDo 4 года назад

@@dr.feelicks2051 Yep, this is a completely mad luxury for me but I thought it would also be a great project and something to keep me inspired once I got it up and working. I'm finally back (after about 20 years) to being able to get most of the studio up and running at the same time and composing, using, and recording multiple sources at the same time to separate tracks without printing track by track.. In this way it is a fantastic investment :D

@deusexradio6943 2 года назад

P&G

@antigen4 4 года назад

managed to find myself a D&R console ....you want headroom - get yourself one of those!!! 28 dB above zero!!!!

@100ThingsIDo 4 года назад

Wow, 28db thats some serious load :D Hope you enjoy the series :D

@antigen4 4 года назад

yes very much thank you - i'm also fighting the HUGE temptation to buy a synclavier!!! ;P

@100ThingsIDo 4 года назад

@@antigen4 if you can afford it (and afford to keep it going) then do it! They are still super unique :D

@antigen4 4 года назад

the only barrier for me really was realizing they were essentially an FM synthesizer ... although what really sold me was the sheer quality of sound (!!). The only problem is that i already have something like 18 synthesizers haha - too much!! I need to concentrate on not futzing around but rather making music *sigh*

@100ThingsIDo 4 года назад

@@antigen4 Later versions also have sampling and resynthesis (sample a sound in and recreate in FM frames). It gets very advanced very fast.. but yes mine is 100% FM 8 voice! :D