Old console modules in a Mac Pro case.

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Do you use a punch or a step bit for the XLR's? On that thin of metal I'm sure it isn't too hard, but I'm looking for suggestions.
 
I didn't have appropriate tools to hand so I used what I had.

I drilled four or five small holes within the target area, snipped the gaps between them, then used a dremel to bore and smooth them out to XLR size.

Not ideal but job done. :)
 
ha, frankensteinamaroo......


I'm probably the only person who enjoyed that. :(

Recorded a wee tune through them today.

Not the best example of their clarity cos I have a kinda of distressed effect going on the master, but still.
 
Whoa, that totally took me off guard. 26 in the UK != that voice and style in my mind for some reason. :laughings: I guess I expected an accent and... techno or something....uncultured heathen here, I guess :o

It sounds good though - what was the console you took the channel strips out of? Also - did you wire up the power through the button on the case?
 
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uncultured heathen here, I guess :o
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Nah, I think I'm just the odd one out! lol.

I'm not certain what console they're from. I think the Ward Beck R2000 used them, but there's seems to be a lot of overlap, as if their consoles were all custom ordered?
Maybe they were.

I didn't wire up the button I'm afraid. I doubt it'd handle that kind of power but I didn't wanna find out the hard way.

I actually had to mount the power transformer in an old behringer power supply box and used their connectors on the back side of the mac pro case.
Neat enough job I suppose, but I would have preferred the transformer inside, letting me use the mains power socket on the back of the macpro case instead.

There was too much buzz getting picked up when I tried that. :(
 
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Steenamaroo said:
I didn't wire up the button I'm afraid. I doubt it'd handle that kind of power but I didn't wanna find out the hard way.
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Well, yea, lol - I would suggest using a relay if you did it. :p Still wondering what those channels are - they kinda look like Ward Becks, but surely not... That'd be kinda cool.
 
Nice! Wow... don't see those very often. "The Canadian Neve", lol. Ward Becks in a Mac Pro is an epic Frankenstein! That makes me want to put some vintage stuff in a broken tablet's case or something.
 
Lmao. Nice touch.

What do you think of my ipod dock?
www.steenaudio.com/dock.JPG

Just kidding of course, Although I'm tempted. :P


Have you used ward beck stuff? They don't seem to be that well known.

I racked a pair of 470a modules too. Cracking stuff. :)
 

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Steenamaroo said:
Have you used ward beck stuff?
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Yeppers. A studio I worked at in San Antonio had all kinds of boutique stuff. The owner called the Ward Becks his "Canadian Neves", which turned to "Neve Canucks" and eventually "CaNeves". I don't remember which unit the WB channels came out of, but they were modified in a few ways to have some stuff they didn't come with. The pres really did sound similar to his Neves (which came out of an 8078, iirc).
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They don't seem to be that well known.
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I think people who have them might want to keep it that way :p

I guess I don't see (or recognize) what you're showing me in the ipod pic :(, but I knew those channel strips from the FrankenMacWBamaroo 2012 model looked familiar.
 
there's an ipod on the amp, as if it's a dock.

I got my ward becks for $40...US dollars...a piece.

Ok, they were line modules, but they're identical to the mic input modules barring a handful of caps and resistors.
I really got a winner that day man.


There are a few common mods out there. I know people mod the eqs for a wider q. I think they're were originally quite surgical.

The only mods I've done other than setting them up for mic input is adding a pad, phantom power and a gain pot instead of the little trimmer pot.
 
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