In article , Dave Plowman (News)
writes
In article .com,
Andy Evans wrote:
I do believe stepped attenuators beat the rest - including Alps blue
and Black Beauties (I've used both).

I'm old enough to well remember stud faders used in broadcasting - built
regardless of cost (balanced faders would probably cost over 1000 quid if
available today). And the regular need for cleaning them. Conductive
plastic was a welcome invention...


Blimey!, I've still got some of them around somewhere, made by Painton IIRC
signal box levers I thing we used to call 'em..

And I had a load of P&G faders and gave them away too!....
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Tony Sayer

In article ,
tony sayer wrote:
I'm old enough to well remember stud faders used in broadcasting -
built regardless of cost (balanced faders would probably cost over 1000
quid if available today). And the regular need for cleaning them.
Conductive plastic was a welcome invention...


Blimey!, I've still got some of them around somewhere, made by Painton
IIRC signal box levers I thing we used to call 'em..

Quadrant types weren't balanced though - it was only the older vast round
ones from Type A desks.

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Dave Plowman London SW
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"Dave Plowman (News)" wrote in message
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In article ,
tony sayer wrote:
I'm old enough to well remember stud faders used in broadcasting -
built regardless of cost (balanced faders would probably cost over 1000
quid if available today). And the regular need for cleaning them.
Conductive plastic was a welcome invention...


Blimey!, I've still got some of them around somewhere, made by Painton
IIRC signal box levers I thing we used to call 'em..

Quadrant types weren't balanced though - it was only the older vast round
ones from Type A desks.

I remember those cylindrical ones. In fact I think I may have a couple of
them at home in the UK. When I was a teenager, we sometimes used to
hang around a small local studio.. The owner had a six channel mixer,
either Grampian or Vortexion, with carbon pots. When they got noisy,
he used to take the back of the pot case, and rub the carbon track with
a soft led pencil. It was a low tech wonder-cure.

Iain

"tony sayer" wrote in message
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In article , Dave Plowman (News)
writes
In article .com,
Andy Evans wrote:
I do believe stepped attenuators beat the rest - including Alps blue
and Black Beauties (I've used both).

I'm old enough to well remember stud faders used in broadcasting - built
regardless of cost (balanced faders would probably cost over 1000 quid if
available today). And the regular need for cleaning them. Conductive
plastic was a welcome invention...


Blimey!, I've still got some of them around somewhere, made by Painton
IIRC
signal box levers I thing we used to call 'em..

And I had a load of P&G faders and gave them away too!....

Maybe Dave was referring to the BBC *rotary* stud faders.
Mechanical works of art they were, with a knob the size of a saucer.
The fader assembly fitted into a cylindrical case a bit like a shell-case,
and latched with a comforting "click"

Iain