Does anyone need a 70s/80s small format mixer for summing? Selling my RAMSA WR S112

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

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.

HAHAHAHA

its all true

you coulda edited the family nonsense out

HAHAHAHA

its all true

you coulda edited the family nonsense out

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

the kid who borrowed, the student? he co-engineered Under Your Bed and is currently a nashville sideman.... we also were briefly in Suzanne Gorman's live band before things got weird with her... it was super brief. Then I gave up music for a few years and got married which drove me to return to music really quickly, but never again professionally.

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.

Ha! Well played, eyeseeofficial.

I put that mix on cans. I never listened to it after doing it. That does sound really good. Thanks guys. I'm going to pat myself on the back now.

I was just talking to my dad and apparently this board was likely used by robert to demo Cyndi Lauper's girls just want to have fun. Not sure. Might be mythology. But he did demo it. Not sure if it was in his home though...

I'm still a soundcraft man... because eurythmics and ska/reggae/dub

hey man, I msged you on reverb but I'll reach out to you here as well.... that offer is going to expire, do you want me to accept it and I'll just elt you off the hook and sell it to this other dude if the school won't pay?

and do you want me to ship it? I prefer fedex ground on the east coast if that's okay. Or do you want to pick it up? I can meet you part way if you want. I could use a roadtrip, really. I mean, I haven't been to see my friends at Peerless Mastering in a long while, maybe we could meet in Newton? Just a thought. I would need a sitter for my son, I don't think he could handle the roundtrip or would be interested in my conversation with Jeff.

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

well, I gave you my equipboard buddy rate, shipping I can do faster as I only need my folks to watch Lucian for like 30 minutes while I'm at fedex :-) I'm not sure if Jeff willw ant to hang in the pandemic anyway, he wasn't having clients in the building anymore last time we talked over the summer.

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

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!

I'm going to send you a counter offer with the 25 dollar discount. Ok?

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.

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]

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

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

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

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

lazguns and shields, bad combination

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)?

+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)?

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