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Found one of these in my dads shed last week. Its a Tannoy AP.30. Valve.

So beautiful when you see it. Think its from the 60's. Its got this electric red front & on the back too. Like, you'd imagine that it would be brushed metal or something. You wouldn't get this nowadays.

The connections are funny on the back & its outputs are running on a different voltage or something, so you'd have to do a bit of stuff to run audio through it.

Still its beautiful to look at. Sad that people throw this stuff away.. the quality / workmanship is something else.

Anyone have any old shit that they've rescued? :mrgreen:

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I've got an old Akai s2000. Used it when I got it about 5 years ago but not touched since! Need to invest in some floppies...

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this is my Studer Revox G36

She was built in 1963 and is so heavy she has her own gravity field.
The unit is an all valve pre amp system and is chock full of a large bank of (original sourced) valves, with a special 30ips mod for higher fidelity. This is a wonderful machine, older than I am and still full of life. These machines are unmatched.

the sound is alive, effervescent and unreal, giving a wonder combination of valve harmonic saturation, tape saturation and tape compression and so far I have found it to be the most difficult thing to replicate digitally which is why I use it in my mastering setup.

The music you hear playing in the video was from my mastering of Singularity Recordings Sin007 EP

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Lost to the Void wrote:this is my Studer Revox G36

She was built in 1963 and is so heavy she has her own gravity field.
The unit is an all valve pre amp system and is chock full of a large bank of (original sourced) valves, with a special 30ips mod for higher fidelity. This is a wonderful machine, older than I am and still full of life. These machines are unmatched.

the sound is alive, effervescent and unreal, giving a wonder combination of valve harmonic saturation, tape saturation and tape compression and so far I have found it to be the most difficult thing to replicate digitally which is why I use it in my mastering setup.

The music you hear playing in the video was from my mastering of Singularity Recordings Sin007 EP

youtu.be/ka4PZXiT5j8
That looks an absolute beauty!
have you tried the waves kramer plugin? very good vst tape emulator

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I have one of these.. http://m.matrixsynth.com/2009/05/pro-rh ... l-sd1.html

It's from the 70's and is the oldest musically thing that I own
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Id love to have a reel to reel recorder and a space echo, I just can't justify buying them at the moment
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And a 909 and a ms20 ha ha
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Mslwte wrote:And a 909 and a ms20 ha ha
909 ! Would love to get my hands on one myself.

The only ancient equipment i have is probably my atari 2600. Very analog sound coming out of the little thingy...

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StandardModel wrote:
Lost to the Void wrote:this is my Studer Revox G36

She was built in 1963 and is so heavy she has her own gravity field.
The unit is an all valve pre amp system and is chock full of a large bank of (original sourced) valves, with a special 30ips mod for higher fidelity. This is a wonderful machine, older than I am and still full of life. These machines are unmatched.

the sound is alive, effervescent and unreal, giving a wonder combination of valve harmonic saturation, tape saturation and tape compression and so far I have found it to be the most difficult thing to replicate digitally which is why I use it in my mastering setup.

The music you hear playing in the video was from my mastering of Singularity Recordings Sin007 EP

youtu.be/ka4PZXiT5j8
That looks an absolute beauty!
have you tried the waves kramer plugin? very good vst tape emulator
In short, Waves kramer master tape is crap, does nothing to emulate tape at all. If you have ever worked with tape then you`ll know it just doesn`t come close. There is none of the emulation of the instant compression you get from tape, none of the "alive" sound and effervescence a tube tape machine bestows, about all it does is colour the sound and add saturation.
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Mslwte wrote:Id love to have a reel to reel recorder and a space echo, I just can't justify buying them at the moment
The problem with a vintage reel to reel is the maintenance.
You gotta clean the thing all the time, heads, pinch roller, all tape track, degauss regularly, and then either align the heads yourself or send em to a professional, which costs a lot of dollar, just in shipping alone.
Tape is getting hard to source as well.

Its a nightmare really. Love it, but as soon as digi can emulate it, I`ll be a happy man.
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