Tube Ampex!!!!

Look at this baby on EBAY right now!!!!

Buy it, and some RCA 44s, add a tube mixer and Elvis here you come!!

 

Another fine piece of vintage equipment. Where IS this stuff coming from? Looks like it could still record, too; very nice condition.

ED

 

Here's the tube mixer. $8000 for 8 channels.

 

Naaaahhhhh....its gotta be the REAL thing, tube mixer from the 50s, like Bill Porters RCA Board. Then youre cookin!!!!

Boy, if I had 50,000 extra dollars....

 

You guys ever hear of Mercenary Audio up here in Boston. They deal in lot's of retro equipment and this this guy's got some cool stuff. I got my Neumann Tube U67, Neve 1064s and my Distressors there. I tried to have him bring a mid '60's Ampex 350 1/2" 4 track back to life that I found in a barn but it was too far gone from years of neglect and mold (It had been there since 1969!). Very similar to the one shown here but it had the black vinyl covering. Thankfully one of the preamps was salvagable. They also do mod work for a lot of famous people like Lenny Kravitz and Jack Joseph Puig.

 

Jack is great. I even called him once and he was kind enough to talk to me for an hour and a half. That second Jellyfish record is Pet Sounds Pt. 2.

 

The Jellyfish records are both excellent. Now that's some tasty use of compression! I've seen pictures of his rig - Fairchilds, LA-2As, Pultecs, etc. All of the sounds are killer.

 

I have a picture of Jack surrounded by his gear on my console for inspirational purposes. It's like that bobble head Jesus I've been seeing on dashboards lately... Not to compare our Lord and Savior to a toy of course.

I'm getting to mix something for him in the next few weeks. He's too booked to get to it (so am I but I canceled a session to do it).

 

Very Cool!

 

Kinda like me, I have a Framed Color Picture of Joe Meek standing next to his Mixer Rack.

That Joe Meek, what a cut up.

 

Especially when he pulled out the shotgun. He was a blast!

I'm actually a HUGE Joe Meek fan. I even have 10 of the new JoeMeek compressors through an endorsement deal.

Here's our man Joe Cool!

 

This is on his old apartment at 403 Holloway Rd. in London.

 

And here I am looking goofy (bofore I cut the long locks) in front of the door to his apartment.

Told you I was a big fan.

 

You got it Yesman!!

Are you selling any of the compressors?

 

Oops!

 

Wow!!! The shrine!!!!!

Someday I will go there and pay the people living in his old studio on the second floor to let me stand there.

 

Not yet. Until I can replace them with Fairchilds I'm going to keep them around. Ironic that I can't see green.

 

Youre right Steve. the guy was a genius. how he got the isolation he did between the instruments recording in a bedroom is amazing.

plus he has such a "signature sound".....you know right away when you are listening to a Joe Meek record. What a shame whay happened to him.

Did you know that EMI was agressively pursuing him to take George Martins place when GM left to form AIR?

Imagine what COULd have been!!

Mikey

 

Cool links Steve. Never seen those before.

 

What´s the item number for the Ampex on eBay?

 

Funny--I just hauled out SPILT MILK last night for a little spin on my new equipment, and WOW. I felt as if I had landed in about seventy musical melodic landscapes at once, and they all made sense, individually and together!

Now that's what I call music!