First the dark side desk now the Abby road desk

[pucho812]

Up for sale.
Any takers?

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/beatles-abbey-road-recording-console-152602402.html

 

[Brian Roth]

Sadly, it probably will be bought by an attorney or orthodontist who will have it in his house to show off to his rich friends.

Bri

 

[pucho812]

Sadly, it probably will be bought by an attorney or orthodontist who will have it in his house to show off to his rich friends.

Bri

I know where the dark side desk went. It’s in a studio here in lost Angeles. I don’t know if the studio is commercial or private. I never asked and never needed to book it.

 

[living sounds]

Sadly, it probably will be bought by an attorney or orthodontist who will have it in his house to show off to his rich friends.

Bri

Too pricy, hedge funds managers, CEOs, corporate speculators etc. are more likely buyers IMO. And they will try to make money off it, not music. Sad.

 

[Rob Flinn]

More on this console

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgk1x1mx0npo

 

[Rob Flinn]

& the reverb listing

https://reverb.com/uk/item/84510567...20241029_UK&utm_medium=email&utm_source=braze

 

[sodderboy]

I love the cello tape hanging from the bus loom. "Do not touch The Loom, don't even look at it!" is my first rule of EMI console maintenance. I would not have cut the hanging tape either. The magic in those desks is mainly the loom and the transformers.
But it looks like knackers are selling it- $3M+ on reverb.com? Asking too much in a cheap store is not the way to maximize returns, they'll be lucky to get a third of that, along with the exponentially increased website hits. It has less than half as much "EMI stuff" as the Dark Side Abbey desk, which sold at auction with other music memorabilia.
Whoever missed out on the Dark desk (Grohl?*) can get this one for a lot less $$ and hassle. The Dark desk has more than TWICE the Plessy connectors/connections in it (read possible intermittency). The earlier desks have the bus loom straight across the cassette connectors, as you see in the photo. The Dark Side desk has a plessy-plessy cable going down from each cassette, connecting to a lower long box that houses The Loom. And I'm not sure if any of that is cello-taped. . .
* I have always imagined him in the bidding, cursing bloody murder the whole time at being out-bid, breaking small knick-naks at 500 thousand, throwing gold records at the telly at 750k, etc.
Mike
PS: this site is "losing" the cursor often, mid-typing, and I have to mouse-click back where I was typing. Is that happening to anyone else?

 

[sahib]

PS: this site is "losing" the cursor often, mid-typing, and I have to mouse-click back where I was typing. Is that happening to anyone else?

I am not having that, instead everything I click on takes 10-20 seconds if not more to load. It started doing it a few days ago.

Anyhow, I wish I had a few millions to throw away. But I once scored Mike Oldfield's monitor console that he used on his Tubular Bells gigs. I sold some of the channels strips here on the forum. May be I should have held onto it :-( .

 

[pucho812]

The seller is MJQ LTD. From experience, I would not ask them to pack and ship. But, if you are a betting man, the have them pack it and ship it.

 

[Dreams]

The seller is MJQ LTD. From experience, I would not ask them to pack and ship. But, if you are a betting man, the have them pack it and ship it.

I can't speak to them packaging things themselves, but they used a third-party service to crate and ship to me, and whoever that did a fantastic job

 

[pucho812]

I can't speak to them packaging things themselves, but they used a third-party service to crate and ship to me, and whoever that did a fantastic job

Well however it got done, from experience it cost them a few extra grand because their shipper failed to secure a rack properly. Broke the rack and the modules in it.

 

[Brian Roth]

Well however it got done, from experience it cost them a few extra grand because their shipper failed to secure a rack properly. Broke the rack and the modules in it.

This is OT for the topic, but...

25+ years ago, a friend/client ran an up and coming studio for alt/indy rock clients. He worked hard, saved his money and finally could afford to buy a Studer A-80 24 track to replace his Tascam 1" 16 track. He bought it through a broker (name forgotten) on the East Coast and had wired the money to them.

When it arrived, he called me almost in tears saying it had been damaged in shipping. I made a beeline to his studio.

There in the parking lot sat the worst disaster I had ever seen. The top overbridge (audio electronics ch. 1-16) was totally sheared off with all cables ripped away. Front faces smashed in, meters shattered.

Same with ch. 17-24 beneath the deck. Supply turntable/reel hold down totally sheared off (and nowhere to be found). Headblock crushed. Two of four casters missing.

It was as if the original owner had put some postage stamps on it and shoved it into a blue Post Office box in the parking lot at the local K-Mart. It took my friend months of back and forth with various entities involved (broker, seller, shipper, yada yada) to get insurance claims, etc. worked out and get his money back.

This was long before everyone had a camera on their cell phone so I don't have any pix to show here. My friend finally got another A-80 many months later which I gladly installed for him.

Bri