miroslav
Cosmic Cowboy
So I scored one today (will be bringing it home tomorrow).....for FREE! 
My day gig includes a theatre...and they had this EMT 240 lost and forgotten in a storage closet, and pretty much closed the paperwork on it a couple year back, as they couldn't find it, so they crossed it off their books.
FFW....I heard recently that they were planning on cleaning out some old junk, and I recall seeing this EMT 240 several years back, and asked what they were going to do with it.
The theater director didn't even know what it was or where it was....but then we checked a couple of the closets, and there it was, underneath some stairs in a com closet.
Well...he didn't want it, as long as the property clerk cleared it for "junk"...and she said it was already marked off the books a couple of years earlier, as they assumed it was lost or that someone got rid of it at some earlier date...so at this point they were going to just toss it. I said if it's garbage, I'll take it out of there.
So...they said "take it".
Mind you, this is a theater, and not a studio, so it had little value to them at this point, and they weren't going to bother testing it and trying to do something with it. They moved on to digital equipment years earlier, and the EMT 240 was probably sitting unused in their closet for 20 years. They had a lot of older gear from the '70s/'80s that they liquidated a few years earlier....this piece just got overlooked in that closet.
It looks pretty clean and I opened the outside case and inside there was no obvious corrosion or grime or anything, as the closet was dry and the building climate controlled...so when I bring it to my studio, all I need to do is check the electronics and hopefully it will all work, and maybe just need some calibration at most (fingers crossed). I'll know tomorrow if it works as it should.
Now I know some people will say that the large 4'x8' EMT 140 plates are the ones with classic plate sound...and that this smaller 240 sounds different, but hey, it's still a sweet score, and it's a real plate, and it's supposed to sound real good on the shorter settings for vocals and drums...and that's what I wanted to mainly use it for.
It has a connection for a remote control....but those are rarer than hen's teeth, and really, all you get on the remote is the ability to flip through the different reverb time settings, and you can do that right at the unit anyway....so the remote is only needed if you want to keep the 240 at some distance from the control room, but these small 240 plates, unlike the large 140 plates, can be kept right in the control room as they are built like tanks, and sealed, and they are not susceptible to unwanted noises affecting them like the large 140 plates, which really need to be in their own sealed room.
Here's a few Internet pictures I found...but I'll take some of the unit I got, when I have it in my studio.
I really hope it works, and if I can get one useable plate setting.....I will be quite happy with it, and look forward to using it on some tracks/mixes.
Maybe I'll marry it up with my Multivox tape delay unit from the '70s, and see how they blend together on some tracks....plate reverb + tape delay.
My day gig includes a theatre...and they had this EMT 240 lost and forgotten in a storage closet, and pretty much closed the paperwork on it a couple year back, as they couldn't find it, so they crossed it off their books.
FFW....I heard recently that they were planning on cleaning out some old junk, and I recall seeing this EMT 240 several years back, and asked what they were going to do with it.
The theater director didn't even know what it was or where it was....but then we checked a couple of the closets, and there it was, underneath some stairs in a com closet.
Well...he didn't want it, as long as the property clerk cleared it for "junk"...and she said it was already marked off the books a couple of years earlier, as they assumed it was lost or that someone got rid of it at some earlier date...so at this point they were going to just toss it. I said if it's garbage, I'll take it out of there.
So...they said "take it".
Mind you, this is a theater, and not a studio, so it had little value to them at this point, and they weren't going to bother testing it and trying to do something with it. They moved on to digital equipment years earlier, and the EMT 240 was probably sitting unused in their closet for 20 years. They had a lot of older gear from the '70s/'80s that they liquidated a few years earlier....this piece just got overlooked in that closet.
It looks pretty clean and I opened the outside case and inside there was no obvious corrosion or grime or anything, as the closet was dry and the building climate controlled...so when I bring it to my studio, all I need to do is check the electronics and hopefully it will all work, and maybe just need some calibration at most (fingers crossed). I'll know tomorrow if it works as it should.
Now I know some people will say that the large 4'x8' EMT 140 plates are the ones with classic plate sound...and that this smaller 240 sounds different, but hey, it's still a sweet score, and it's a real plate, and it's supposed to sound real good on the shorter settings for vocals and drums...and that's what I wanted to mainly use it for.
It has a connection for a remote control....but those are rarer than hen's teeth, and really, all you get on the remote is the ability to flip through the different reverb time settings, and you can do that right at the unit anyway....so the remote is only needed if you want to keep the 240 at some distance from the control room, but these small 240 plates, unlike the large 140 plates, can be kept right in the control room as they are built like tanks, and sealed, and they are not susceptible to unwanted noises affecting them like the large 140 plates, which really need to be in their own sealed room.
Here's a few Internet pictures I found...but I'll take some of the unit I got, when I have it in my studio.
I really hope it works, and if I can get one useable plate setting.....I will be quite happy with it, and look forward to using it on some tracks/mixes.
Maybe I'll marry it up with my Multivox tape delay unit from the '70s, and see how they blend together on some tracks....plate reverb + tape delay.
....damn WTF was I thinking?! 
