DISCO 421: Capturing the feeling that you get exactly one minute after four-twenty, all my dank-bros. Yes this is an image intended to sell audio mixers. Download the original sales-fliers for the RUSSCO Disco 421, Studio Master 505 and Studio Master 505S:
DOWNLOAD: Russco_Mixers_1981
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Download just a shit-tonne of sales materials for the Orange Country Electronics line of EQs and Compressors circa ’78 – ’80:
DOWNLOAD: OrangeCountyAudio
Products covered, with text, specs, and images, include: The Orange County VS-3 Stereo Processor, CLX-S-FM, VS-1 Stressor, VS-2, CLX compressor module, PEQ, SEQ, and DEQ equalizer modules, as well as a 1978 price list.
I know little to nothing about this stuff, other than it seems to be pretty rare, and some folks online believe the designs to be based on ADR’s kit (see this previous post). They sure look like they would be fun boxes for treating submixes, though, esp. the VS-2 Stressor, which combines a limiter, compressor, expander, and there is a frequency-contouring element to the compressor as well. Drop us a line and weigh in…
Above: GATES Attache 70, Dynamote 70, Courier 70, and Unimote 70 solid-state remote amplifiers circa 1965. I somehow ended up with a box of those side-reading VU meters; how the hell do you cut panel holes for those things? Useless.
Gates SolidStatemen studio broadcast boards circa 1964. The Executive, Diplomat, President, and Ambassador. Has anyone had any luck parting these out and re-purposing the mic preamps? Anything worth exploring there? There’s one of these things available locally for a song and I feel bad about just hacking it up; is it even worth the time? Seems like there are an awful lot of these things out there and nobody wants ’em. WHICH IS precisely the sentiment that people had towards all that ‘vintage tube stuff’ when i was a kid… hence my hesitation…
Harris-Intertype Gates. Keeping America On-Air. (I just made that up). OK folks, besides the Sta-Level… what else is still worth using in the world o’Gates? Drop us a line….