What’s on *YOUR* workbench?

jwin615 said:
Your professor should have embraced RADAR. Still sounds great. :)
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A friend's studio went with Radar versus Protools. You are right, sounded great! But he was not getting work because people had no idea what it was but have heard of Protools. He switched shortly after opening and bookings increased.

Alesis had their version of it as well, a 24 dedicated HD recording system, don't recall it selling very well though.
 
CheapSuitG said:
A friend's studio went with Radar versus Protools. You are right, sounded great! But he was not getting work because people had no idea what it was but have heard of Protools. He switched shortly after opening and bookings increased.

Alesis had their version of it as well, a 24 dedicated HD recording system, don't recall it selling very well though.
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The Nyquist converters were the secret sauce. An engineer I used to know used a digital format converter and hooked RADAR to a TDM PT rig through it synced over work clock.
The RADAR handled and AD and DA. Pro Tools was just used for effects and automation. Made the local ProTools reps head explode.
Beat the pants off the 96io at the time and sounded way better. Lower latency too iirc.
Edit for clarity. Basically RADAR was a tape machine and PT was the mixing desk. No audio was ever actually recorded into PT.
 
CheapSuitG said:
A friend's studio went with Radar versus Protools. You are right, sounded great! But he was not getting work because people had no idea what it was but have heard of Protools. He switched shortly after opening and bookings increased.

Alesis had their version of it as well, a 24 dedicated HD recording system, don't recall it selling very well though.
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Looks pretty cool to me.

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I really wanted to do gold hardware on this pedal. I was a bit anxious about the quality of the gold 3PDT stomp I had. So I popped off the top with the gold actuator, and trying to decide.

I can fit an spst in there and make it a relay bypass. Or I can take apart another 3PDT with known specs and put this gold piece on it.


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Nostradoomus said:
I can only guess what this means and I’m probably wrong.

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You are, but that would be a much better take on it.

It's basically just a germanium, positive ground One Knob Fuzz with a voicing switch to change between collector values/coupling caps on the second transistor. The bias control appears to be on the collector of the first transistor, but there are multiple trimpots around it - looks like there's one in series for minimum resistance, and one in parallel for maximum resistance from somebody elses tracing - but mine is totally different to that! I probably need to pull all components to check because there's some real, real jank happening near the trimpots (one of which measured open, and one of which measured as a short). Both my collectors go to pads surrounding the transistor support wires, and I am struggling to see the logic there.

The mix of vintage Soviet THT parts (some of which are only soldered onto one side of the board) and SMD trimpots on the back is rather annoying - I'm sure a suitably vintage-looking trimmer could have been found that would make things much easier to deal with. For something that's extremely well made in other places, the fact the bias control is a 16mm Alpha PCB mount pot with a pair of wires soldered through the eyelet, and it's just floating is...something else.

I have heard rumours there was a batch of these released with PCB mistakes which is why there are multiple types of gutshots for a very limited release of pedals, so making a better PCB might be the easiest solution.
 
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