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Real *mansize* knobs....
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Real *mansize* knobs....
"Keith G" wrote in message ... None of yer wussy mouseclicking he http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iKKt...eature=related :-) What a silly goose I am - I meant to ask if anyone could say what the mics were? They look like modern SE 2000s - or the other way round: http://www.seelectronics.com/sE2000.html ?? |
Real *mansize* knobs....
Keith G wrote:
None of yer wussy mouseclicking he http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iKKt...eature=related Please don't post links to *black and white* footage that I *actually* remember. :( -- Bill Coombes |
Real *mansize* knobs....
"bcoombes" bcoombes@orangedotnet wrote in message o.uk... Keith G wrote: None of yer wussy mouseclicking he http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iKKt...eature=related Please don't post links to *black and white* footage that I *actually* remember. :( This could be a "Where were you then?" I am sure most of us here can remember. It was 1961. I thought HS was wonderful............ until I found Francoise Hardy. Love at first sight:-) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQGNpRnFNgM Iain |
Real *mansize* knobs....
"Keith G" wrote in message ... "Keith G" wrote in message ... None of yer wussy mouseclicking he http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iKKt...eature=related :-) What a silly goose I am - I meant to ask if anyone could say what the mics were? They look like modern SE 2000s - or the other way round: http://www.seelectronics.com/sE2000.html ?? Original Neumann U47 or Telefunken 201M Iain |
Real *mansize* knobs....
Iain Churches wrote:
"bcoombes" bcoombes@orangedotnet wrote in message o.uk... Keith G wrote: None of yer wussy mouseclicking he http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iKKt...eature=related Please don't post links to *black and white* footage that I *actually* remember. :( This could be a "Where were you then?" I am sure most of us here can remember. It was 1961. I thought HS was wonderful............ until I found Francoise Hardy. Love at first sight:-) Yes, the French tarts of that era certainly had something...and of course you had every chance of 'meeting' her...if your name happened to be Bob Dylan or Mick Jagger. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQGNpRnFNgM -- Bill Coombes |
Real *mansize* knobs....
"Iain Churches" wrote in message ... "Keith G" wrote in message ... "Keith G" wrote in message ... None of yer wussy mouseclicking he http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iKKt...eature=related :-) What a silly goose I am - I meant to ask if anyone could say what the mics were? They look like modern SE 2000s - or the other way round: http://www.seelectronics.com/sE2000.html ?? Original Neumann U47 or Telefunken 201M Check your emails, Iain.... Found the hum on the AEG Solidtube tonight - after swapping 3 valves to no effect, I thought it was a poor earth connection on the casing at one point as it could be temporarily affected by gripping it here and there. Then reading the service .pdf that someone kindly put me on to (Ian? Iain? - I'm on a different machine, so I can't see who it was) I checked and found it was the bass attenuation switch: http://www.moirac.adsl24.co.uk/shown...Hum-SWitch.wav (Switch out-switch in-switch out again.) Then, by way of a reward, I spotted a couple of valves lying on a shelf and picked one up - 'Flying C' Svetlana 12AX7 - nice! Then I picked up the other one - Bingo! a **Mullard ECC83**!! The sun always shine on the righteous, they say - let's just hope it don't *hum*...!!! :-) |
Real *mansize* knobs....
"bcoombes" bcoombes@orangedotnet wrote in message o.uk... Iain Churches wrote: "bcoombes" bcoombes@orangedotnet wrote in message o.uk... Keith G wrote: None of yer wussy mouseclicking he http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iKKt...eature=related Please don't post links to *black and white* footage that I *actually* remember. :( This could be a "Where were you then?" I am sure most of us here can remember. It was 1961. I thought HS was wonderful............ until I found Francoise Hardy. Love at first sight:-) Yes, the French tarts of that era certainly had something...and of course you had every chance of 'meeting' her...if your name happened to be Bob Dylan or Mick Jagger. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQGNpRnFNgM Or that sodding lucky French **** Serge *Knobber* Gainsbourg: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7BjL36Dubk While we're on the YouTubes, did anybody catch the *excellent* Porgy & Bess on R3 the other day (yesterday?) - if so, check this out (the *definitive( version): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4PSju9HYwU :-) |
Real *mansize* knobs....
"Keith G" wrote Found the hum on the AEG Solidtube tonight - after swapping 3 valves to no effect, I thought it was a poor earth connection on the casing at one point as it could be temporarily affected by gripping it here and there. Then reading the service .pdf that someone kindly put me on to (Ian? Iain? - I'm on a different machine, so I can't see who it was) I checked and found it was the bass attenuation switch: Typing ******** as usual - its a -20 dB 'pad' switch! The sun always shine on the righteous, they say - let's just hope it don't *hum*...!!! OK, not so righteous it seems - the hum has become erratic and irrational and it hums with the switch the other way now, so I guess it's gonna have to go off for a pro repair. (Too fiddly and will probably need parts....) |
Real *mansize* knobs....
"Keith G" wrote in message ... "Keith G" wrote Found the hum on the AEG Solidtube tonight - after swapping 3 valves to no effect, I thought it was a poor earth connection on the casing at one point as it could be temporarily affected by gripping it here and there. Then reading the service .pdf that someone kindly put me on to (Ian? Iain? - I'm on a different machine, so I can't see who it was) I checked and found it was the bass attenuation switch: Typing ******** as usual - its a -20 dB 'pad' switch! The sun always shine on the righteous, they say - let's just hope it don't *hum*...!!! OK, not so righteous it seems - the hum has become erratic and irrational and it hums with the switch the other way now, so I guess it's gonna have to go off for a pro repair. (Too fiddly and will probably need parts....) Before you send it off. A colleague tells me that this mic has a spring through which the case is grounded. Check that it is making good contact. Iain |
Real *mansize* knobs....
"Iain Churches" wrote in message ... "Keith G" wrote in message ... "Keith G" wrote Found the hum on the AEG Solidtube tonight - after swapping 3 valves to no effect, I thought it was a poor earth connection on the casing at one point as it could be temporarily affected by gripping it here and there. Then reading the service .pdf that someone kindly put me on to (Ian? Iain? - I'm on a different machine, so I can't see who it was) I checked and found it was the bass attenuation switch: Typing ******** as usual - its a -20 dB 'pad' switch! The sun always shine on the righteous, they say - let's just hope it don't *hum*...!!! OK, not so righteous it seems - the hum has become erratic and irrational and it hums with the switch the other way now, so I guess it's gonna have to go off for a pro repair. (Too fiddly and will probably need parts....) Before you send it off. A colleague tells me that this mic has a spring through which the case is grounded. Check that it is making good contact. Done that, Iain and also trapped a bit of aluminium foil between the body halves to ensure a bond, but it really is the switch - which means it is likely be a coil on the board. Way too fiddly to be soldered with a heated shovel and will want dinky little parts near impossible to get outside the pro repair circuit, I suspect. There's no rush to fix it (check your emails) and I can drop it into (or post it to) a place in Letchworth, just down the road. It's probably/almost certainly going to cost a wunnah or so to fix, which is what I budgeted for when I bid on it knowing *full well* that it was almost certainly going to have a real reason for someone getting rid! |
Real *mansize* knobs....
"Keith G" wrote in message ... "Iain Churches" wrote in message ... "Keith G" wrote in message ... "Keith G" wrote Found the hum on the AEG Solidtube tonight - after swapping 3 valves to no effect, I thought it was a poor earth connection on the casing at one point as it could be temporarily affected by gripping it here and there. Then reading the service .pdf that someone kindly put me on to (Ian? Iain? - I'm on a different machine, so I can't see who it was) I checked and found it was the bass attenuation switch: Typing ******** as usual - its a -20 dB 'pad' switch! The sun always shine on the righteous, they say - let's just hope it don't *hum*...!!! OK, not so righteous it seems - the hum has become erratic and irrational and it hums with the switch the other way now, so I guess it's gonna have to go off for a pro repair. (Too fiddly and will probably need parts....) Before you send it off. A colleague tells me that this mic has a spring through which the case is grounded. Check that it is making good contact. Done that, Iain and also trapped a bit of aluminium foil between the body halves to ensure a bond, but it really is the switch - which means it is likely be a coil on the board. OK. Just a thought. Way too fiddly to be soldered with a heated shovel and will want dinky little parts near impossible to get outside the pro repair circuit, I suspect. There's no rush to fix it (check your emails) and I can drop it into (or post it to) a place in Letchworth, just down the road. It's probably/almost certainly going to cost a wunnah or so to fix, which is what I budgeted for when I bid on it knowing *full well* that it was almost certainly going to have a real reason for someone getting rid! If you mean Sound Technology, they are very good It will still be a reasonably-priced purchase even after repair. I thought that Harman were word-wide agents for AKG, so try also: This may be old info. HARMAN PRO UK Cranbourne House, Cranbourne Road, Potters Bar Herts, EN6 3JN www.harmanprouk.com Max Lindsay-Johnson Phone: +44 1707 668041 Iain |
Real *mansize* knobs....
"Iain Churches" wrote in message ... "Keith G" wrote in message ... "Iain Churches" wrote Before you send it off. A colleague tells me that this mic has a spring through which the case is grounded. Check that it is making good contact. Done that, Iain and also trapped a bit of aluminium foil between the body halves to ensure a bond, but it really is the switch - which means it is likely be a coil on the board. OK. Just a thought. And much appreciated! :-) Way too fiddly to be soldered with a heated shovel and will want dinky little parts near impossible to get outside the pro repair circuit, I suspect. There's no rush to fix it (check your emails) and I can drop it into (or post it to) a place in Letchworth, just down the road. It's probably/almost certainly going to cost a wunnah or so to fix, which is what I budgeted for when I bid on it knowing *full well* that it was almost certainly going to have a real reason for someone getting rid! If you mean Sound Technology, they are very good Yes, that's them! It will still be a reasonably-priced purchase even after repair. Exactly. Apart from a one-off 'rogue' price of 499 GBP from these people: http://www.guitarampkeyboard.com/en/akg-solid-tube/1512 These things seem to cost over 700 quid, which means I can afford to have it repaired and it will still be a bit of a bargain for what it will have cost me. The sound quality is there - much better than the Chinese valve mic I had here (for even more money) and which was also noisy!! I thought that Harman were word-wide agents for AKG, so try also: This may be old info. HARMAN PRO UK Cranbourne House, Cranbourne Road, Potters Bar Herts, EN6 3JN www.harmanprouk.com Max Lindsay-Johnson Phone: +44 1707 668041 Thank you for that - I did find them and looked at the website, but I thought it looked a bit too slick and 'big time' for a little repair to a ****ty old eBay mic! Besides, I know where Sound Technology is and they can't be too big - plus it's virtually on my doorstep! :-) |
Real *mansize* knobs....
"Iain Churches" wrote in message ... "Keith G" wrote in message ... "Keith G" wrote in message ... None of yer wussy mouseclicking he http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iKKt...eature=related :-) What a silly goose I am - I meant to ask if anyone could say what the mics were? They look like modern SE 2000s - or the other way round: http://www.seelectronics.com/sE2000.html ?? Original Neumann U47 or Telefunken 201M Iain IIRC, Abbey Road studios had mics that were originally U47 and the converted to U48s so its difficult to see from this distance - but definitely Neumanns. Mike |
Real *mansize* knobs....
"bcoombes" bcoombes@orangedotnet wrote in message o.uk... Iain Churches wrote: "bcoombes" bcoombes@orangedotnet wrote in message o.uk... Keith G wrote: None of yer wussy mouseclicking he http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iKKt...eature=related Please don't post links to *black and white* footage that I *actually* remember. :( This could be a "Where were you then?" I am sure most of us here can remember. It was 1961. I thought HS was wonderful............ until I found Francoise Hardy. Love at first sight:-) Yes, the French tarts of that era certainly had something I never thought of her as a "French tart", - more of an "ange" She drove a Maserati, - "une fille comme tant d'autres" :-))) ...and of course you had every chance of 'meeting' her...if your name happened to be Bob Dylan or Mick Jagger. Or David Bowie or Brian Ferry, or, or..... One consolation was a newspaper gossip column revelation where someone like Serge Gainsbourg told that bedding her was like bedding a sack of bones:-) Iain |
Real *mansize* knobs....
Iain Churches wrote:
"bcoombes" bcoombes@orangedotnet wrote in message o.uk... Iain Churches wrote: "bcoombes" bcoombes@orangedotnet wrote in message o.uk... Keith G wrote: None of yer wussy mouseclicking he http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iKKt...eature=related Please don't post links to *black and white* footage that I *actually* remember. :( This could be a "Where were you then?" I am sure most of us here can remember. It was 1961. I thought HS was wonderful............ until I found Francoise Hardy. Love at first sight:-) Yes, the French tarts of that era certainly had something I never thought of her as a "French tart", - more of an "ange" She drove a Maserati, - "une fille comme tant d'autres" :-))) ...and of course you had every chance of 'meeting' her...if your name happened to be Bob Dylan or Mick Jagger. Or David Bowie or Brian Ferry, Speaking of Brian Ferry and French tarts. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5W7hpm0MP6k -- Bill Coombes |
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