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https://dune.fandom.com/wiki/Holtzman_Effect

No way! I got the idea from the Haus Effect. It's a quasi-pun. Thank you both!

nice name.... its a crime to throw out old 70s and 80s broadcast gear... shame, shame, ding ding ding

I was closer to the 90s by my guess. It was mostly chasses. Not everything is gone.

+2 on the name... but so SO close to a great Dune reference.

Which name? Electronic State of Mind or The Holtz Effect? And how is it close to a Dune reference (I don’t know Dune very well)?

It's a Gibson, but I don't know which. I'd start by looking up vintage black Gibson acoustics.

Thank you the heads up! Happy National Guitar Day!

Ask James Woods

I have no idea what reference that is.

splendiferous home studio of doom

Is this the official moniker?

hey man, ask your school if they have any broadcast EQs, compressors or limiters the radio station isn't using.... obsolete stuff... anything made by RCA, the US government under the name federal or dept of commerce or FCC equipment, gates, CBS labs, thomson labs, orban or texar. Symetrix 5 series gear is good too but I have a lot of that. If they can't pay me they could trade me. I love old radio equipment and use it heavily on big projects. It can be non-functioning. I'll fix it.

Context for people who are confused: In a turn of events, I will be purchasing the WR-8112 through Boston College's Electronic State of Mind club. It will have a nice home on the heights to be used for education.

All of the broadcasting equipment belongs to WZBC and they just did a thorough remodel of the studio back in 2019. They threw out whatever wasn't functioning, so there are no parts to salvage. In other words, I don't think there's anything to spare. I'd recommended reaching out to Judy Schwartz, the faculty advisor, just in case there is. Mention that you know me and my show, The Holtz Effect. [email protected]

If you're mastering a record, take it to Peerless in Newton and tell him you're a friend of Jim from Under Your Bed and Indre recording

Will do!

We could meet in Newton, but if shipping is easier, go ahead.

Also, thumbs up to the brands you've been able to bring onboard thus far: U-he, Eventide, Image Line, D16, Accusonus. Solid lineup!

Seconded.

Expand on that. What do you mean?

What I meant is that maybe Equipboard could create a Reverb shop. That could get tricky, though, given that it would be multiple users selling on one account.

Alternatively, a module could be made for users to submit their existing Reverb.com listings to item pages. For example, perhaps they would go to the item page and click a button to fill out a form, in which they would input the listing link. The listing would then appear on the item page as an embedded link. Once sold, the item would automatically switch to the submitter's "Had" list.

HAHAHAHA

its all true

you coulda edited the family nonsense out

It adds depth! Besides, those details answer what happened to it afterwards.

story of this board (its entertaining, get ready):

This board was purchased brand new for 2 or 3 grand by Robert Hazard for his home studio along with two tascam decks, an 8 track, the one everyone had, and a 1/2" mixdown deck. He had dbx noise reduction and some dbx compressors. In the 80s he sold the entire rig to my dad's keyboard player. Or maybe said band member stole it. there was a lot of that from the keyboardist and bassist. If they did tech work and felt underpaid they robbed the dudes. I had Blood Sweat and Tears Princeton Reverb for many years and it came to me with a similar tale. We're at maybe 83ish? The guy looked it all over and sold it to my uncle who was just graduating princeton for engineering....he made a bad pop record on it under the monicker Thomas Mars and proceeded to get a masters. Then he and my dad got a DX7 and a drumulator (which i have to this day) and made a new agey album called "stress break" with this gear. It was meant to be listened to in a waterbed based isolation chamber that was being marketed through sharper image but yuppies in fact did not want subject themselves to MK Ultra experiments so it never caught on. Shit looked like the mercury capsule, it was so cool.

From there the baord went to do live sound for another uncle and the tape machines and outbaord sat around. In the 90s I used this board to record and mixsome poor tape deck band rehearsal space EPs and went on to use it for an industrial EP that used a mix of casstte 8 track and computer for the master. Then I did some techno and DnB singles on it, most of which should never be lsitened to by anyone. I started my first studio job and I lent it to one of my guitar students whow as into recording and made some stuff with it. I purchased a 200b around this time and sued it for a solo record that's best not lsitened to and will remain secret. THe 200b did not make it all the way through that and I went ITB as it was possible all of the sudden but I wound up asking for the baord back to sum drums and EQ some stuff into the recorder.

Then it went back to the original uncle who was archiving multitracks into cubase sx. I helped him bias his machines and he tried the ramsa but wanted a dry sound as he didn't want to mix at the time. I was in dog and pony at the time (the loudest band in thehistory of philadelphia, it is known) and had been given my friend's teac 24 which we cut the record on at the main studio Iw as working out of. We were out in the carriage house behind the main building... anythign with a lot of pieces or hella loud got cut there. I know for a fact that that was the only record I cut on there thatw asn't mixed through it too. We went to another studio me and the bassist worked at and used their SSL room. I think that was also cut to Alesis HD24, I really like that machine. But Under Your Bed's first demo was cut through the teac although it may have been summed through Mitch Levine's similar Tascam 16 track because I used his home studio control room and it was a great excuse to hang with my favorite old man.... we shall never see his like again! Miss you buddy. From there the UYB demo was at studio 4 and was polished up by Phil Niccolo who fixed all my deficiencies as an engineer and some deficiency caused by the bad treatment in mitch's control room and overlarge 3 way JBL speakers. The Teac did good service on those 2 personal projects in that 300 year old carriage house! There it stayed where I cut many record through it for years forgetting all about the little ramsa that could. The Teac moved to under your bed's rehearsal spaces forr awhile and then wound up stored at another uncle's and he sold it out from under me without asking for 200 bucks. If I didn't lvoe him I woulda killed him. He ditched that massive teac on his 'old junk' theory.... the same theory that caused him to give me a princeton reverb from 64 as my first guitar amp in 91 or 92 (another instance of the keys and bass duo from Woodlands boosting gear from scheister live sound and lighting clients and using my uncles as unwitting fences). But he sold that teac without the power supply which I still have LOL. I believe he also told me to just get a 16 channel mackie if I needed a mixer. Beause they're so clean and all. So if ayone has a Teac Model 24 and no powersupply? I;m your guy!

Meanwhile the ramsa was with "Thomas Mars" and there it sat until he tried it for a band rehearsal and found he couldn't remember how to work the routing so he asked me if I wanted it back this thanksgiving and I said sure. He gave me some extra faders and when I got around to using it I made that one mix and the next weekend i lost the 2 channels and threw my hands up in the air. I've been inside it back in the day and just didn't have the time or energy to disassemble the thing. Being non-modular and built like a tank its an undertaking to get to the channel cards and get them back in properly. I could do it but its distracting from music to have stuff taken apart allover your control room. So the Trash Godz and I found this 400b that's been srviced and upgraded and I ahd it delivered Saturday. Guy's son drove it from Ohio for me, nice kid. Thing lit up and performed flawlessly day 1.

I just sourced this for a submission. I think it's awesome that we've come to a point at which Equipboard is validly its own source.

The more I learn about this mixer, the more I wish I had the money for it. That's a piece of history!

what about a gear emproium?

What if Equipboard integrated a Reverb shop?

I was really impressed with the quality of this recording, Jim. All of the stuff on your Soundcloud is quality, and clearly crafted by someone whose composition and mixing skills are highly-developed... but there is something especially pleasing about the sonic quality of this recording here. If this is the only recording on your SC mixed/summed on this old board, then it is indeed a very effective pitch for what this thing can do.

Seconded. This mix sounds incredible! It makes me wish that you wouldn't sell it just so we can hear more like this.

Speaking of, when can we expect the next Trash Godz to drop? XD

make me an offer! seriously, as long as its not 2 digits I'll consider it.

Well, all I can afford are two digits. I hope it finds a good home!

How much for it?

boosters, distortions, drives, fuzzes, a really sketchy compressor that has a certain vibe though.... ummm.... oscillators, a CMOS inverter based filter in a pedal for guitar to get wasp/bassstatin filtering on anything... some mic preamps with a friend (he made the PCBs) that I wound up letting him buy mine because they were too american for me being based on this old green altec mixer I used to have back in the day that he bought off me too because I fell out of love with its overcolored sound.... I know I've built more stuff but I'm at a loss for some reason.... I've made modded/bespoke champs for people outta parts but I'm not a champ man so I never made one for myself.... I've modded tons of 57s and okatava 319s, alesis 3630s, symmetrix preamps etc... I'm probably going to mod my soundcraft eventually...

EDIT: I've restored tons of blackface and silverface fenders, a 5c3, vintage ampegs, marshalls (and modded them if they're anemic), supros, little no name 50s combos.... gbson tweeds and two tones sometimes modded for the weak models... and I restored and now lovingly maintain my 62 ac30... I lovingly maintain my stable of vintage synths as much as I can without help, parts are getting scarce... I've rescued hundreds of ailing effects units and stomps...

I really enjoy inventing stuff that's just for my very specific uses, one trick ponies that have 1 or 2 controls and solve one specific issue perfectly.

I applaud your body of work, sir.

so I made this amp to suit my needs/wants and as a homage to the tones of the great pre-zep/sabbath trios like the who, cream etc... it was fun

Well, you nailed it! People would probably love this as a compact preamp.

My other question remains unanswered, however. What else have you made?

bored yet?

No, actually. I searched for more and found your original post! Fascinating stuff. I'm surprised I even understand most of it. What else have you made?

Oh yeah, I started a new band with my odlest friend. That idea kidna prompted me to design an amp because he asked me not to use ac30s and I wasn't happy with my EL34 heads for this so... there ya go

Why wouldn't he let you use an AC30?

https://equipboard.com/pros/benjamin-wong

Great research! It might be a custom shop build.

yes

Where would one find these demos?

I also build stuff for fun. From pedals and simple preamps to whole tube amplifiers. I'm not an EE, but I can read a schematic and quickly get what's going on and I can solve and apply all of the college algebra needed to voice an analog circuit for music.

Are there any demos of your builds online?

Thank you for your recommendation. However, its lack of a white background makes the current one the victor.

Nope, that's not me. But thanks for the effort and upvotes :)

Well, I tried! XD

You're welcome for the upvotes, btw.

Not my call re: whether or not this form of promotion crosses the line, but you've got a long-established profile, have made substantive contributions over the past 5+ years, and are promoting with some self-awareness of the potentially dicy optics... so OK by me, FWIW.

I second this.

Tool isn't working anymore. Is says "Item has to be a valid link to an item on Equipboard" even though my link is correct. please merge the following:

Taken care of.

Is there somewhere online those interested could go to see what brands you currently carry?

As usual, I did some digging: https://villagemusicwellington.com/

I was replying to this comment by admin Gchiaren:

We're moving towards utilizing MusicBrainz, Spotify, and Wikidata to help us better structure our artist data.

We're considering making it a requirement that an artist has to have a presence on one of those 3 services in order to be added as a community-editable artist page.

Is it perfect? No. I think anyone can put themselves on Spotify. But at least we would be making it more difficult to bend the rules...

Aha. He can also speak to this better than I can.

Anyone who releases commercially distributed material can get on Spotify, since all(?) distributors include Spotify in their portfolio. As long as they've released material I don't see the problem with calling them an "artist."

I will refer you to the Notability Guidelines, which speak to this better than I can.

Great lead! Thank you for letting us know.

As far as the correct equipment, this artist?

I'm not sure what you mean. Do you want us to check your submissions?

https://equipboard.com/ryan_bunten_real

diogo alexandre NARCISSISTO?!

I think we can do better than this, jokewise and high road-wise.

maestro FZ1s rarely sound like that....

To be fair, it is a controlled demo.

Probably gonna try to sell to someone who doesn't mind the hiss.

It sucks that Walrus Audio couldn't make a less noisy pedal, but I'd hate to see you sell it if it's one of your favorites. I found something that might help:

My first though would be to use a noise gate; however, I know they will clamp down on the tail end of the reverb.

A gated effect loop with a release/decay control might fix the problem without harming the reverb trails. It will delay the onset of the gate for a preset duraion, which you could adjust to match the reverberation time. A cheap one is Electro-Harmonix's The Silencer.

So, seedystrums, what was the verdict? Keep or sell?

I think Production & Groove is more vague than Electronic Music. Maybe it would be better to transfer it to Studio Equipment, but move Tabletop Synthesizers to Keyboards, Synthesizers & MIDI?

https://equipboard.com/pros/diogo-alexandre-nascimento

Here's are two vintage, albeit cheap current listings of clones, one from Reverb and one from eBay. Regarding new SGs with vibrato, your best bet is the Epiphone SG Standard '61 Maestro Vibrola.

On a side note, you don't need to give your posts such urgent titles! We're here to help you.