This is pretty rad. 10×3 (plus echo send) console circa 1955 built for one Jimmy Carroll, who we apparently have to thank for the 10,000,000,0000 sing-along-with-mitch LPs that clog every Salvation Army record-bin from here to Timbuktu. ANYways… check it out here… Dude seems a tad optimistic with the price, considering what the legendary Kearney Barton console went for. (also see here). Cool to check out, nontheless. Here’s one of the preamp modules:
Can you say “Costume Change!”
“Top artists told us what they wanted, and we listened.”
In 1981 you could apparently purchase an Anvil-briefcase loaded with seven ATM-41 mics, each in a different color. Seven corresponding mic cables were also included, as well as… touch-up-paint. The price of admission to this zenith of vanity? $1595 (list), aka $4080 at the pump this week.
Via this eBay auction: a UTC A-12 mounted on a plate-retained octal plug, with the pins wired to correspond to the pin-out of an Altec 4722 input transformer.
It had simply never occurred to me that the mounting-diameter of a UTC A-series corresponded to the mounting-diameter of those octal-mount plates. Well done sir. Great idea if you have an Altec 1567, 1566, or ANY piece of old pro audio gear that uses octal transformers – and a great many do. RCA, Newcomb, Ampex, the list goes on….
Download a 4-PP chart from Sennheiser, circa 197*, on the subject of choosing the appropriate model of microphone for your application. Sample topics: Will you be recording animals?
Choosing a mic ain’t easy.
Download now. It’s all very logical. Sennheiser_Chart