what about compression to record steel ?

Tony Prior · Post by **Tony Prior** » 7 Apr 2007 7:05 am

Randy , you mean the one I paid $29 for is not a good one ?

I knew I should have bought that one for $39....

David L. Donald · Post by **David L. Donald** » 7 Apr 2007 9:16 am

Would that be as opposed to the one for $3,500?

John Macy · Post by **John Macy** » 7 Apr 2007 9:46 am

Oh, come on, David--let's go right for the big guns--here's a pretty good deal on a Fairchild 670 for only $28,000...

http://www.oceanaudioinc.com/cw2/Detail ... &category=

David L. Donald · Post by **David L. Donald** » 7 Apr 2007 9:57 am

I see we are the land of diminishing returns!

Dad had a coupla Fairichilds back when.
He'd just plotz if he saw THIS price tag...

And I STILL miss the LA-2A originals I let go.

And a coupla these too.

UREI,1176 LN,MONO,ORIGINAL 1176
Price today : $4,200.00

It would seem some people still value compression...

And for comparision, a stereo EQ :
AVALONE,2077 CUSTOM,STEREO,MASTERING EQ,ALL STEPPED POTS,2 YRS,CUSTOM FACE PLATE
Price: $7,900.00

Campers these ARE serious prices too.

Randy Beavers · Post by **Randy Beavers** » 7 Apr 2007 10:53 am

Just imagine when folks were dumping their analog gear thinking it would be useless when all the digital gear came out.

On another Forum there's a thread asking what's the worst purchase you ever made. Many of them are about the digital gear they bought after selling off, (for pennies on the dollar), the gear we now pay BIG BUCKS for.

John Macy · Post by **John Macy** » 7 Apr 2007 11:16 am

In 1976, I passed on a 670 for 500 bucks...

I do own a pair of LA3A's that I paid 200 bucks for, and a pair of dbx 160VUs I paid 100 bucks for...

David L. Donald · Post by **David L. Donald** » 7 Apr 2007 7:18 pm

Well the analogue tape machines are toast,
with a very few esoteric exceptions.

Good luck getting tape,
and look at the state of the old tape masters now....
you have to bake the reels for a specific time and temp
then run it to digital because the oxide is
coming off in huge flakes.
one pass and that's all she wrote.

Analogue outboard gear particularly tube stuff,
kept it's value to engineers because the need to
warm digital still was obvious.

I only lost certain tube gear and outboard,
because at the time I thought to retire...
and I thought it' ain't gonna work in europe either. More fool me.

Still there is plenty of reasonably priced tube gear
with good specs available. And even more in the preamp range than before.
A 670 would be cool to have,
but I can live without it.

There was a thread on kit tube preamps,
I want to set
up a work bench and gradually build up several of those units.

At most I want, having a nice stereo tube EQ unit
after my last mastering stage and then back into digital
that would give a touch of warmth and 'subtle grit'
and I can be pretty happy with that.