For all you old farts (born before 1967)

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This could be a race: which will die first? Old farts like me or this thread?
 
Born in '58, bought my first electric in '72 or so. It was a mint '64 Strat with OHSC and a mint Vibro Champ for $150. I started recording shortly after when I began playing with a buddy. We used a Sony reel-to-reel that my dad owned, a "suitcase" model with a couple of Sony mics. We just put the mics out front and hoped for the best. My first real PA with a board came in about 1980. It was a Peavey powered board with huge knobs. I've never seen one like it since.
 
Travst said:
My first real PA with a board came in about 1980. It was a Peavey powered board with huge knobs. I've never seen one like it since.
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I had one of those! Mine was a 24channel one and it was HUGE! Not powered though ..... just like 4 feet long!
Had built-in electronic crossover which was pretty unusual fro the time which was early 70's.
Had these enormous knobs and for some reason they labeled it as a ground shunt which is what a lot of volume controls are. The lower you set them, the more signal they shunt to ground.
So the knobs, instead of being labeled as 0-10 they were labeled as infinity (the sideways 8 symbol) to 0 with the numbers from infinity being like 55 ....... 40 ..... 35 ...... very strange.

Here's one ...... much shorter than mine but the same basic set up and the big knobs.
 

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moresound said:
I gotta know, I gotta know!!
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OK.....

My first bass was a Hagstrom II. I (foolishly) ended up selling it because the plastic on the face, around the input jack, had been epoxied back together so many times, there was nothing left but....epoxy. That was pre-internet days.....around '71. I could probably have found a face plate on flea-bay or something had I kept it. AWESOME bass. Slimmest, thinnest and fastest neck I can remember. Ended up getting a Gibson EBO that I also sold several years later during hard times.

For amps, started with an all-tube Univox 115 then graduated to an Ampeg B25B all tube. Monster amp for it's day.

In another foolish move, the ex didn't think it was right for a married man to be in bars and clubs all the time. Sold that for $100 to a "buddy" who turned around and sold it for $300. Still pains me today!
 
I had something close to this in 1989, bought it from a guy walking in to sell it to a pawn shop for like $100

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Me doing location recording in 1975 or so.
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You can hear one of the songs recorded to a "portable" 80-8 here if interested:
2. Location Audio Services | Richard King Media The bottom song was from the mid '70's. The other songs on the page are last and this year.
The studio in the same time frame (notice the big knobs):
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The studio upgraded (I bought the 80-8 and "built" the custom "stands"):
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Enjoy.
 
Our FOH PA setup from 1980, note the old SAE power amps with a fan parked behind, oh and the cassette deck for break music, and the food and refreshments.
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Richard King said:
Is that a Sunn mixer? ;)
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Yes, it is, concert controller 2, it was 8 channel mono. It had an inbuilt spring reverb, the graphics you can see in the pic, treble, bass, rev send and 1 aux send on each channel.

I have posted these photos before in this old thread.

I remember it sounding very good, my first studio set up not long after this photo was the sunn and a 3340S teac. To get a stereo mix I used the mono main and the aux out and balanced them to get a pan of instruments.

Alan
 
Lt. Bob said:
I had one of those! Mine was a 24channel one and it was HUGE! Not powered though ..... just like 4 feet long!
Had built-in electronic crossover which was pretty unusual fro the time which was early 70's.
Had these enormous knobs and for some reason they labeled it as a ground shunt which is what a lot of volume controls are. The lower you set them, the more signal they shunt to ground.
So the knobs, instead of being labeled as 0-10 they were labeled as infinity (the sideways 8 symbol) to 0 with the numbers from infinity being like 55 ....... 40 ..... 35 ...... very strange.

Here's one ...... much shorter than mine but the same basic set up and the big knobs.
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That's it, except mine was longer as you describe. Kind of like an old Fender Rhodes. I lived in an old farmhouse at the time with nothing but open land and cows all around. We'd set up on the old-timey front porch and use it as a stage.
 
I can't compete with the riders in the other heaps
 
Richard King said:
Me doing location recording in 1975 or so.
original.jpg

You can hear one of the songs recorded to a "portable" 80-8 here if interested:
2. Location Audio Services | Richard King Media The bottom song was from the mid '70's. The other songs on the page are last and this year.
The studio in the same time frame (notice the big knobs):
3370998.jpg

The studio upgraded (I bought the 80-8 and "built" the custom "stands"):
3371040.jpg

Enjoy.
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Richard ..... I've seen that first picture of you in publication before! Were you just interviewed not to long ago and had that picture used?
 
Nah, I've posted a few different places in the past and you may have seen it in one of those. ;) That night I was recording a seven piece rock band to 4 track live. A real challenge. Some of it turned out quite well considering, but it was much tougher back then than it is using current material. I have enjoyed it from way back then and getting back into it now.
 
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