Jed
Well-known member
Hi all,
Thanks for being such a wonderful resource/community. I?ve been lurking around here for the last few months and I?ve been continually impressed with the quality of the dialog, the level of expertise, and the friendliness with which you all seem to treat noobs (like myself). I?ve been learning a ton, thanks to all of you. I?m hoping my first post will be one that keeps you interested!
Last year I built a small, one room studio in the basement of my home. I did a fairly good job on the construction ? good enough to keep most of the sound of the outside world out. In creating a quiet room I heard, for the first time, just how crappy most of my gear sounded.
Being of the DIY persuasion I?d been reading up here and trying to decide what kind of mic-pre project I should undertake first. I?d been leaning towards the JLM kits but holding back for a while to save up a bit of cash. Then last night, in one of my regular perusals of Craigslist, I found a post for a "Huge Old Radio Console."
Now I am the owner of a very heavy Rockwell/Collins IC-10A, a 10 channel stereo broadcast console.
This beast was removed in (supposedly) working order from KBPS radio here in Portland sometime in the last couple of years. Then it sat in the basement of the guy I bought it from, who evidently never had the time or know-how to set it up. He thought it was a tube console from the 1950?s. It is not. As near as I can tell (from reading the labels on some of the Shallco cans on the inputs) this board was probably built in 1976, potentially by the company Autogram. It is most definitely solid-state. It looks to have some decent parts inside, as well as some things I haven?t yet identified.
My goals for this monster:
Based on the way I work, I?d love to end up with 1-2 mic pres and maybe 8 channels of out-of-the-box summing. From what I?m guessing about the guts of this thing, I?m hoping that will be a reasonable proposition, and one that will allow me to make modifications while keeping this thing intact.
I'm still trying to dig up a manual and/or schematics for this board, though I have found a guide to the screw terminals: http://www.autogramcorp.com/ic-10.html
I'll use the next post to put up some photos of the guts and my dissection of a few of the modules. :grin:
Jed
Thanks for being such a wonderful resource/community. I?ve been lurking around here for the last few months and I?ve been continually impressed with the quality of the dialog, the level of expertise, and the friendliness with which you all seem to treat noobs (like myself). I?ve been learning a ton, thanks to all of you. I?m hoping my first post will be one that keeps you interested!
Last year I built a small, one room studio in the basement of my home. I did a fairly good job on the construction ? good enough to keep most of the sound of the outside world out. In creating a quiet room I heard, for the first time, just how crappy most of my gear sounded.
Being of the DIY persuasion I?d been reading up here and trying to decide what kind of mic-pre project I should undertake first. I?d been leaning towards the JLM kits but holding back for a while to save up a bit of cash. Then last night, in one of my regular perusals of Craigslist, I found a post for a "Huge Old Radio Console."
Now I am the owner of a very heavy Rockwell/Collins IC-10A, a 10 channel stereo broadcast console.
This beast was removed in (supposedly) working order from KBPS radio here in Portland sometime in the last couple of years. Then it sat in the basement of the guy I bought it from, who evidently never had the time or know-how to set it up. He thought it was a tube console from the 1950?s. It is not. As near as I can tell (from reading the labels on some of the Shallco cans on the inputs) this board was probably built in 1976, potentially by the company Autogram. It is most definitely solid-state. It looks to have some decent parts inside, as well as some things I haven?t yet identified.
My goals for this monster:
Based on the way I work, I?d love to end up with 1-2 mic pres and maybe 8 channels of out-of-the-box summing. From what I?m guessing about the guts of this thing, I?m hoping that will be a reasonable proposition, and one that will allow me to make modifications while keeping this thing intact.
I'm still trying to dig up a manual and/or schematics for this board, though I have found a guide to the screw terminals: http://www.autogramcorp.com/ic-10.html
I'll use the next post to put up some photos of the guts and my dissection of a few of the modules. :grin:
Jed