Bought my 3rd piece of joemeek gear tonight

[Seeker of Rock]

I bought an MC-2. Won't have it for a week or so (ebay), but did some research on them and seems to be a good buy. Yeah, C-2s were first, but I dig my other joemeek stuff and needed to have this. Why? I have a DM PRO kit, broken down to output 6 channels into the board from the rear of the unit, so good drum isolation. Joemeek units do wonders for it, not that the DM Pro sounds bad by any means, but at a few of the samples need a little compression and added character that joemeek adds going into the board channel (yeah, I know...but it is the way I do it and am comfortable with that ). Anyway, as much bashing and praise as the products receive, figured I would add another honest positive.
Any major differences between the C-2 and the MC-2? I guess one was made in Quay's House and the other in St. Mary's, Barton.

[richardsorr]

I enjoy my C2.

[Seeker of Rock]

Just curious, do you use it off the 2 buss or while tracking or both?

EDIT: oh yeah, or the thing I never do...as an insert?

[Seeker of Rock]

Edit: I guess, more accurately, this would be my fourth piece of Joemeek gear. I have a TrakPak with an MQ3 and JM47 mic, but those are really two separate items. Service by PMI is still top notch. Last week I e-mailed them to see if they had any extra hard copies of a manual for my VC1Qcs. They only had a VC1Q manual, but close enough. I got it in the mail yesterday.

Anyone know how close the MC-2 and the SC-2 sound? I read a review on the C-2, the MC-2's predecessor, and the author (not sure how credible he is) said the C-2 sounded similar to the SC-2. I take it he probably meant the "color", and not the quality. I'm sure this little unit will be great, but it is probably like the difference between the VC1 and the MQ3...similar characteristic color, but the VC1 sounds bigger. More headroom, I guess. Just a "bigger, deeper" sound.

[jkokura]

Originally Posted by Seeker of Rock

Edit: I guess, more accurately, this would be my fourth piece of Joemeek gear. I have a TrakPak with an MQ3 and JM47 mic, but those are really two separate items. Service by PMI is still top notch. Last week I e-mailed them to see if they had any extra hard copies of a manual for my VC1Qcs. They only had a VC1Q manual, but close enough. I got it in the mail yesterday.

I completely agree about the service thing...

A while back I did a trade deal with ThaJeremy for my 1010 and some of his stuff, including a pair of JM27's with a stereo bar. Somehow the Stereo bar had lost it's connectors that allowed it to screw into mic clips...Jer emailed PMI and they sent out a pair of connector thingys, but they were the ones that allow us to connect NA mic clips to those mini stand threads...you know, those things that come with all your european mics and you never use but are lying around all over the place... Anyway, so Jer emailed them again and this time they sent out the right ones! Yippee! It all worked out great, thanks to PMI's excellent service!

jacob

[B52]

A c2 and a mc2 are the same exact things. If you open up the mc2 you'll see that it actually has a c2 board inside of it.

Both are pretty much a joemeek sc2.2 (w/o dark mode) except the sc2.2 has a real power supply instead of a walwart.

I like the little 1/2 rack units a lot. EDIT: for the price.

[Seeker of Rock]

That's what I read in one of my searches. Mixingonline...something like that. I've been hanging tonight with the non-thinking cap on a little too long, so can't remember exactly. I would think the architecture was a little different due to the size, as it probably is, but the bottom line is getting the joemeek sound if that is what you like, and that is what I like. Now something that I did read somewhere was that the VC6 and its successive incarnations were basically the smaller 1/2 rack unit architecture with a couple of added features, but namely an internal power supply, thus the 1U instead of 1/2

[B52]

The VC6 is a VC3 with a little extra compression control, i think.

I have an original VC3 I want to sell, by the way.

[Seeker of Rock]

It wouldn't by chance be the gold silkscreened lettering version, would it? Even if not, I may need one more, so what the hell, give me some details.

[JoeBannon]

Is there a site listing all the stuff Joe Meek has ever made?

[B52]

Originally Posted by JoeBannon

Is there a site listing all the stuff Joe Meek has ever made?

This should cover it:

http://www.joemeek.com/downloads.html

[JoeBannon]

Originally Posted by B52

This should cover it:

http://www.joemeek.com/downloads.html

Ah, well done. You get a cookie.

[Seeker of Rock]

Weird that they don't list the VC1 brick there. JGuess it probably has similar operation to the VC1, just a different look.

[B52]

Originally Posted by Seeker of Rock

Weird that they don't list the VC1 brick there. JGuess it probably has similar operation to the VC1, just a different look.

Or PMI who runs that page just never had a PDF copy of the manual.

[JoeBannon]

What was the first thing Joe Meek built?

[Seeker of Rock]

Not sure, but I believe the first production was the VC1 "brick" or an SC2. I know Alan of PMI said he has (2) matched serial number "bricks" in the joemeek vault. I would think he may have a manual with them, if Fletcher Electroacoustics even did manuals at that point. I think that was from the Quay House days. Alan pops in occassionally. If you're reading Alan, could you shed a little history?

[B52]

There was definitely just a green Joemeek "Stereo Compressor" that looked handpainted on ebay like 5-6 years ago. That was before the SC2. The TFpro webpage used to have a line or two about their early stuff but it looks like they had to take that down.

[JoeBannon]

Originally Posted by Seeker of Rock

Not sure, but I believe the first production was the VC1 "brick" or an SC2. I know Alan of PMI said he has (2) matched serial number "bricks" in the joemeek vault. I would think he may have a manual with them, if Fletcher Electroacoustics even did manuals at that point. I think that was from the Quay House days. Alan pops in occassionally. If you're reading Alan, could you shed a little history?

Yeah, Alan, where is that history lesson?

[B52]

Also, as far as the Brick goes...i've seen them with two different paint jobs. I think the gold paint one just said "The Brick" on the front while one with black paint said "VC1 Studio Channel". They may have had slightly different front panel layouts too, but I can't recall off the top of my head.