The Music Man RD50 is little seen these days but kind of a ccol amp and a cool story. With a pair of 6L6's and a unique solid state preamp stage it is loud but smooth and takes pedals very well. We have a couple of different cabs that sound nice with it! Read this article linked here to learn more about this interesting tube amp.

https://www.vintageguitar.com/29069/music-mans-hybrid-boogie-amp-the-rd…

A pair of these XRM's was our main 30 channel monitor desk set up for some time although now most times we have the PM5D in place for monitors. It has a tiny footprint and sounds great and just keeps on working! The passive split, the 12 AUX/program sends, and the insert / direct outs on every channel and the way you can link several of them together make it pretty hard to beat for a small analogue monitor desk!! We have used the inputs on these desks as pre's for our live-off-the-floor recording system as well and get great results in fact!

More ancient history but if you want a photo in front of the console looking like Lee Scratch Perry at the peak of his output and creativity then you need this console! Even if he did end up burying it under 3 feet of sand in his garden when he got a better desk! haha. Some of you were not born in 1971 when this was the coolest portable mixer out there, it came with a 16 channel snake on a reel, and built into a metal shelled road case!! Rock and roll!!

   I know the up-to-date live sound guys and girls have had their fill of the PM5D, that's because every soft-seater and municipal amphitheatre in the world has at least one still working flawlessly, doing it all, what a workhorse. But you know what, it actually sounds pretty darn good! I know there are lots of fancier plug ins now but you can create some beautiful mixes on this old beast! And it is a huge problem solver when it is in our rehearsal/recording work flow. So many ins and outs!! It is our ONLY digital mixer, sorry to be so dated, haha!!!

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The Japanese Neve!! No op-amps in the signal path, or anywhere.... This desk does not have direct outs, the only way to track is via the 4 subgroups, or the 4 channel matrix, or the 2 fx sends plus the 4 groups out, or a combination of those! But we sure can mix on it. The only inserts are on the groups, this is old school people!! It looks and feels cool!! Just leaning on it is cool guys, come on!!

TRAKKER is a high quality Single Channel Discrete Class A Compressor-Limiter. It functions either as a musically transparent compressor or as a vintage compressor-limiter with selectable hard or soft knee. It can create distinct new sounds or maximize existing ones. The TRAKKER has adjustable threshold, attack, release, knee shape, and makeup gain controls. In addition to these controls, a function switch allows the selection of transparent operation or vintage operations such as optical, air optical, soft knee, and hard knee - each with four different amplifier/gain control sounds.

<p>The C-1 from TL Audio is a dual channel tube compressor that features two solid state preamps followed by two valve stages per channel. The high quality microphone preamps allow direct-to-tape recording of microphone sources while stereo front panel instrument inputs allow a keyboard or guitar to be fed directly into the unit.</p>

We honeslty have not used it much lately but it works and is maintained. Not a standard format but an amazing fat sounding format! Double wide, 1 inch 8 track. This was a state of the art micro-processor controlled deck in its hey dey and it does not have a lot of hours on it. We can track to it and then dump to digital, or we can mix straight from the tape, 8 channels only, need to have a concise plan!

We don't do a lot of video but we do have ways to solve various problems and VideoProc, like Myriad is to audio, is a Swiss Army knife. It gives you access to every parameter of the video encoding and audio sync standards and the meta and header information. We don't claim to know much about video but there is some stuff we can figure out and fix if we must!

Myriad is the best audio batch processor for macOS. It looks beautiful, delivers incredible performance, and remains in a class all by itself. Why doesn't everybody know about this? And all of the programming was done by one Canadia I understand, drawing on open source resources of course! At the end of a 5 year licensing nightmare at the hands of a hostile buyout Myriad is back, my version never stopped working, and never goes out of date. Zynaptiq apparently realized what an amazing bit of coding this huge program is and got it out of jail! I don;t know the whole story, Google it.

From the original Otari promo' material:

The MTR-12 Mastering Production Recorder is designed to be the most advanced available for the audio professional. Whether you consider yourself an artist, an engineer- or both, these superlative machines will deliver the performance necessary for your most challenging audio requirements today, and tomorrow You'll discover that the MTR-12 makes sense for the way you work with audio - that these are truly "intelligent" machines that will quickly become a dependable and powerful extension of your expertise.

Our main digital recording platform is the Tascam X-48. Our is recently refurbished with new drives, rebuilt power supply and recapped motherboard, operating at factory specs.

Hypercardioid dynamic mic, can handle very high SPL. Useful for snare drum, freak high-SPL situations where you still need good midrange clarity. If the SM57 were a microphone, it would sound like this.

Read more: http://recordinghacks.com/microphones/beyerdynamic/M-201-TG#ixzz74DUhFWDc

A forgotten classic handheld vocal mic!! These are so great, all of the bass proximity effect that SM58 users come to expect and use with more clarity and more dynamic highs and mids for a singer who has great mic technique. It also is a great versatile studio mic with 4 different high pass / pad settings! Why was this Frank Sinatra's favourite vocal mic?? Again vocalists come and book yourself a session where you get to try out 10 different vocal mics to see what you like! We have at least that many.... 

I can't remember whether these ones are the higher or regular spl rated ones. They are tiny and they sound amazing, and they work live or as a body vocal in a recording session, yes there is such a thing, but maybe we are the only people who do it?.. Body worn mics are always an intimate lens. These DPA's are beautiful sounding.

800 watts (at 4 Ohms) Hybrid Tube
Solid-State Preamp Design
5-band EQ w/ Sweep Mid, Scoop
Resonance Controls
Footswitchable Overdrive with Wet (drive) / Dry (Clean) Blend
Onboard Compression and Limiting
Tuner Output with System Mute
Active and Passive Instrument Level Inputs
XLR Balanced Pre or Post D.I Output
Professionals are satisfied and happy when they play it we find. Its cool.

Stock speakers, stereo/mono standard issue.

This is the oldest guitar amp we have. It is a survivor, some caps changed (all for the best!!) and a couple of resistors replaced somewhere along the way (not sure why) but it is still going strong. The outer Tolex or Leatherette is long gone, and someone polished it up and varnished it but this is the original speaker, tranny, pots, maybe even the original preamp tube! This is a 5 watt practice amp, basically exactly the same as the more famous Fender SC-1 tweed champ (Clapton:Layla) practice amp. You don't often play through a one-sided tube amp these days!

This is a war horse. A 130 watt solid state head and big 2 x 15" cab. The fondly remembered Peavey Black Widow speakers that were stock on these had a problem with the type of rubber in the surround and eventually started to disintegrate. We still have the originals and intend to recone them at some point in the future. But in the meantime the two 15" speakers have been replaced with a decent quality Chinese made PA 15"'s that sound great. Its a two channel bass amp with compression and parametric EQ, and channel switching!

We can put together a nice mix and match jazz kit with some advance notice ideally. We have a nice Gretsch 18 inch kick with cool Dunnett Gull Wing spurs and a variety of toms we can assemble, 10", 8", several 12 and 13" options, Pearl, Tama, Leedy, etc.. We keep coated heads on most of the smaller toms and we can swap in a jazzier kit for no extra charge. 

This is the day to day house kit. Kick 22", 16"fl, 13", 12", matching wood snare. People like this kick drum. It is a nice sounding kit, we keep clear heads on it, and there are dampening rings available for all tom sizes in the premises. There is another kick drum that people like with this kit as well, a 22" 1980's Yamaha which is heavier and has a darker, lower sound to it. 

Made in Toronto or I guess Pickering. Doyle Audio Engineering are still going strong apparently. This one comes from the 1980's! A 1 x 12" cab is kind of a cool thing!

http://www.doyleaudio.ca/products.html

This is the highest wattage Marshall ever made I think. 350 watts, haha. It has a tube preamp stage, solid state rectifier, solid state power. It is like two amps in one (only one input) with switching between two totally separate preamp stages. Its true that it does not really do its thing until you are good and loud but we are experimenting with a power soak to make it work in the space better. The metal people liked these. Alex Skolnick from Testament notably owns several of these and knows how to dial the 4 channel selects in with no pedals for his sound. We have two of these.  Why?

This is the amp the Fender guys grab, plays well with pedals, predictable, loud enough, recently re-capped power supply made a big difference, didn't realize it was fading away until we did them! It is 60 watts, 2 x 6L6's give you some bass headroom, two inputs, 4 10' speakers like an old Bassman or a Super. Its a work horse around here.

This is an odd one, made by Rock Amplifier Co. in Pomona, CA in the 1970's. Its a solid state transistor amp with a fuzz box type transistor overdrive /distortion circuit. It won't supply the warmth and dynamics for most electric players but it is kind of cool as a second amp for maybe lapsteel on a gig with a mic in front of it, if that's your second instrument?? Or as the delay channel on a two amp set up its cool. There are not a ton of them out there and people collect them. This one used to belong to a member of Tangerine Dream...

Its a 2 x 12", two channel 80 watt Traynor classic. One of the first adopters of master volume, with trem and reverb, 4 x EL34's, lots and lots of clean head room to run pedals on. It has a steel chassis and huge transfromers, good thing it has wheels on it.

These are standard house work horse cabinets, a stacked pair.

This is a two cabinet combination tube amp and tube organ. Built by the Lowery Organ factory in Chicago in the 1960's for Cordovox it has the organ "tone generator" in one cabinet and the power supply and speaker and amp in the other. There is only a volume control and an unbalanced 1/4" mic input to plug into but it sounds great! Its a 35 watt push pull 7591 pair and a 12AU7 input circuit.