The Twins came home today....

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Well you got me fired up to wrestle the twins into any position you would like. I cant imagine what they will look like after your touch!
 
mdainsd said:
Well you got me fired up to wrestle the twins into any position you would like. I cant imagine what they will look like after your touch!
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There's just way to many kinky implications with those two statements.... :D
 
mdainsd said:
Haha! Yes I can see that.:facepalm:
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Don't sweat it, dude. Not everyone here has their mind in the gutter. ;)

About setting up the Sony's for a picture or two, maybe try one with them side by side but at toed in angles similar to how a set of studio monitors would be positioned/angled in. And then perhaps another one where they're spread apart enough for the remote to be in the middle of them. And like you did with the TASCAM deck, do natural day light and flash shots. Or experiment with different shooting angles by moving around and finding a cool looking perspective with your eye first and then try to replicate that with your camera.

Cheers! :)
 
Bumping in the hopes of seeing some more pics of the twins! :)

Cheers! :)
 
oh you will! Things have been hectic around here. Had a waterline break and flood the house. All the floors got torn out and the bottom two feet of all the walls were opened up. Then the reconstruction started. Im doing the Lion's share myself and its five months in now, but Im getting close to being able to start to set up the two rooms for my little fun zone:)

One of the early conundrums with the twins was missing and broken transport switch caps on the remote. I tried every avenue I could think of to track them down but the answer I got repeatedly is that those parts became extinct 15 years ago.

I kept thinking this cant be the end of the line can it? Hmmmm (slow turning gear sounds), then Voila!!! Ten minutes on SolidWorks and a send to the 3D printer I have at work and I now have a lifetime supply of Sony keycaps. I should do a thread just on that project....
 
mdainsd said:
oh you will! Things have been hectic around here. Had a waterline break and flood the house. All the floors got torn out and the bottom two feet of all the walls were opened up. Then the reconstruction started. Im doing the Lion's share myself and its five months in now, but Im getting close to being able to start to set up the two rooms for my little fun zone:)

One of the early conundrums with the twins was missing and broken transport switch caps on the remote. I tried every avenue I could think of to track them down but the answer I got repeatedly is that those parts became extinct 15 years ago.

I kept thinking this cant be the end of the line can it? Hmmmm (slow turning gear sounds), then Voila!!! Ten minutes on SolidWorks and a send to the 3D printer I have at work and I now have a lifetime supply of Sony keycaps. I should do a thread just on that project....
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Good stuff!

Did you get the missing doors yet?
 
No. I left them behind when I picked the twins up. I realized it when i got home and contacted the sender. I sent him some money to cover sending them down, but no action yet. Its OK if I dont get them. I'll do some furniture grade hardwood doors and do matching end caps while Im at it....just another project right?

I have gotten the required number of new Tuchel connectors to do all the interfacing at the tape machine end. Right now TT patchbays are setting me back. Im not paying hundreds of bucks each for them. I know if I am patient they will fall in my lap (crosses fingers).
 
Thanks SBs! Im not familiar with those. Are they half normaled, or full? Are they audio or data? Pm sent.
 
Current status:

Thanks to Corey, the patchbay requirement has been filled, one issue down, ten thousand to go...

The guy I bought them from was good on his word. the doors that got left behind have been reunited with the machines. They took a detour to the body shop to get some dents and ripples taken out.

Still looking for a second remote/autolocator. Its going to take some time AI guess, but I'll keep looking.

The next test is to see if I can get them to run in sync with each other. If that is successful then I want to see if I can get them both to follow the Tascam acting as the master. Why? Cause its fun.
 
Update. Ive been spending all my free time working on learning to drum, building the live room, building the control room, acquiring equipment...well you get the picture.But the coolest news is I located the incredibly elusive second remote/auto-locator I needed. This wonderful forum did it for me! I posted in the classified wanting to buy one. No one here had any input but a guy on the east coast had a remote, and of all things did a google search for someone wnating to buy one. I guess he got one hit, the classified section of this forum and my post. Yipee!
 
The second remote arrived this week. It was poorly packed by UPS in a box barely tall enough to drop the remote and base into. There was less than an inch between the top of the remote and the box. So when something inevitably got dropped on it it cave in the front face of the remote. Caved in to the extent that the pushbuttons and leds were dragged inside the enclosure right out of the holes they are supposed to peek through. I could make a claim and UPS couldnt pull their usual "well we didnt pack it", but it is just so rare that I decided to keep it even if worse case it served as spares for my other remote. I took it all apart and was amazed that the upper circuit board wasnt broken. After stripping everything out of the box I sent it to the machine shop that we have at work. A few hours later it was back on my desk. You could not tell it was ever bent up as badly as it was, they worked magic on it, didnt even damage the paint were the straightening work was done. I was so happy I rewarded them by giving them the roll around stand to straighten up. So hard was the impact the even the stand got bent up :facepalm:

I put it all back together and this weekend I had the chance to fire up one of the twins and test it out. It passed all internal diagnostics (yipee!!!). Everything I was able to test out worked so I got lucky...

Heres a glamor shot, LOL:

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Good stuff!

But damn, UPS is no better then a bunch of monkeys when it comes to handling packages. :facepalm:

Cheers! :)
 
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