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coplinger
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How does Seck compare to Soundcraft & Allen & Heath? Are the pres & eq's of the similar quality? I did a search here & didn't come up with much.
6gun
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i owned an 1882 mkll for about 12 years and ran a studio with it for a while. it wasn't too bad. decent pres and eq, good routing and good features all-in-all.
but....i had a terrible power supply problem and the headphone amp burnt out on me. seck went out of business a long time ago so there was no support. i sold it when i went to a balanced system (the seck only runs at -10dbv).
i'd pass on it today, but that's me.
but....i had a terrible power supply problem and the headphone amp burnt out on me. seck went out of business a long time ago so there was no support. i sold it when i went to a balanced system (the seck only runs at -10dbv).
i'd pass on it today, but that's me.
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Han
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I have three of them which I use in the studio for cue mixes and sometimes for on location recordings. 3x8=24 you know.
Indeed it's a -10 board, but you can feed +4 recorders with it if you don't push them too hard.
The pre's are very good and clean sounding and it's probably one of the best sounding budget boards ever made, although a tad noisy.
The EQ is very neat, high at 11k, low at 45hz and a mid sweep.
It would hav been perfect with a low mid sweep extra.
There's a complete monitor section within the board that has a level control, panpot, FB send and a stereo effect send/returns, so you can use the board as an "inline" board as well as a split console.
It has 8 subs with switches to 9-16, so you can feed a 16 track without the need to patch wires.
I have made a number of very successful CD's with them boards, actually I'm searching for another (fourth) one.
I have an extra power supplie, but never needed it.
The board can work on car batteries as well.
Beware for worn faders, for I guess they're hard to find.
I understand the Seck company was sold to Soundcraft in the early 90's and Soundcraft used it for development of the Spirit line.
Great little board though, only 17 kilo's and very rigid too.
You can hear some sound fragments on my site that were done with the Seck. Ghotic example 1, Rock example 1 and jazz example 2 are from the Seck boards.
Indeed it's a -10 board, but you can feed +4 recorders with it if you don't push them too hard.
The pre's are very good and clean sounding and it's probably one of the best sounding budget boards ever made, although a tad noisy.
The EQ is very neat, high at 11k, low at 45hz and a mid sweep.
It would hav been perfect with a low mid sweep extra.
There's a complete monitor section within the board that has a level control, panpot, FB send and a stereo effect send/returns, so you can use the board as an "inline" board as well as a split console.
It has 8 subs with switches to 9-16, so you can feed a 16 track without the need to patch wires.
I have made a number of very successful CD's with them boards, actually I'm searching for another (fourth) one.
I have an extra power supplie, but never needed it.
The board can work on car batteries as well.
Beware for worn faders, for I guess they're hard to find.
I understand the Seck company was sold to Soundcraft in the early 90's and Soundcraft used it for development of the Spirit line.
Great little board though, only 17 kilo's and very rigid too.
You can hear some sound fragments on my site that were done with the Seck. Ghotic example 1, Rock example 1 and jazz example 2 are from the Seck boards.
6gun
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i agree , it was a good sounding board...and it did have a 'sound'. but the mackie 24/8 was a seck (among many others) killer for sure. also, i plugged a mackie mdr24 into the seck tape returns and it was downright ugly.
i do miss the board for what it's worth, but i don't miss the noise or the weird # of channels (18...straaange).
i do miss the board for what it's worth, but i don't miss the noise or the weird # of channels (18...straaange).
Downside Studio
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ugh..seck..ugh ugh......suck!
6gun
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Downside Studio said:
uhhh...whatever.
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Han
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The Mackie 24/8 killed the Seck? Mmmmmm......... I have different experience with Mackies, and I'm not the only one.
Ever heard of a work of art called "Shit on a Stick"?
Ever heard of a work of art called "Shit on a Stick"?
Downside Studio
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6gun said:
Hold on to your hats....I just realised something......
I think I'm confusing seck with ZECK
so it should have been
zeck....ughh..oeehgoo...ffiidd.........ZUCK!
Downside Studio
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oh, and 6gun......cool website..
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coplinger
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Well, I bought the Seck.
Han-
The seller tells me the following:
"The actual SECK 1882 board is all +4dBu (at unity gain) except for a few
things. I think most of those can be modified to +4dBu, but it takes
swapping resistors. The meter bridge converts the +4 group outputs to -10
for an old Fostex 16 Track recorder. I never played with it. I was feeding
my Tascam DA38 off the groups just fine at +4, and just used the meters on
the DA38."
Is this correct?
If nothing else, the Seck gives me more routing options than any new board for this price, and it's a good step up from the behringer crap I'm using now.
I'll let you know how I like it next week.
Han-
The seller tells me the following:
"The actual SECK 1882 board is all +4dBu (at unity gain) except for a few
things. I think most of those can be modified to +4dBu, but it takes
swapping resistors. The meter bridge converts the +4 group outputs to -10
for an old Fostex 16 Track recorder. I never played with it. I was feeding
my Tascam DA38 off the groups just fine at +4, and just used the meters on
the DA38."
Is this correct?
If nothing else, the Seck gives me more routing options than any new board for this price, and it's a good step up from the behringer crap I'm using now.
I'll let you know how I like it next week.
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Han
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The subs can be used as inputs as well and you noticed there are 4 line in's with high and low EQ that can be routed to any sub or the main out.
So one 1882 can make a mix out of 46 tracks. You will have 18 tape ins with full EQ, 18 line ins without EQ, the 8 subs as input without EQ and the 4 extra line ins with only hi and low EQ, from which you need two for sending the mix from the monitor section to the master.
I've done some mixes with many keyboards and I can tell you this is a very flexible little board.
And no my dear Downside bro, it has nothing in common with Zeck!!!
So one 1882 can make a mix out of 46 tracks. You will have 18 tape ins with full EQ, 18 line ins without EQ, the 8 subs as input without EQ and the 4 extra line ins with only hi and low EQ, from which you need two for sending the mix from the monitor section to the master.
I've done some mixes with many keyboards and I can tell you this is a very flexible little board.
And no my dear Downside bro, it has nothing in common with Zeck!!!
Downside Studio
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My mistake sis!