looking for Tonelux V Rack console service documentation

[zzzzz]

TL;DR: does anyone happen to have copies of 2000s era Tonelux V Rack Modular console manuals and/or service docs? Thank you!

Background:

Our studio has had a modular Tonelux V Rack console in our A Room since 2008ish. Despite the format being abandoned, it is a great sounding unit. Obviously Paul’s designs have evolved into Fix / Wolff Audio and are wonderful, so no surprised that his older Tonelux stuff holds up.

However, we have lost ALL documentation for the console. It was all hosted online many years ago and now that’s long gone. I have a couple of pages of back panel hookup I/O diagrams but that is all.

Over the past few years we’ve been having some issues develop with modules, routing, etc. I brute-force recapped an EQ and that brought it back to life, but obviously that’s not ideal (bipolar electros were way out of spec — 2000s capacitor plague victims?). It would be great to have actual schematics and documents for these modules to do proper repairs and diagnosis.

We have reached out to Paul directly and also PMI who currently own the Tonelux brand, of course.

 

[pucho812]

I am willing to bet they didn't hand any of that out...

 

[zzzzz]

I am willing to bet they didn't hand any of that out...

my thoughts as well but you never know what could show up

 

[paulcheeba]

I had invested quite early and it was a great sounding mixer and I wanted to expand but I hated the connection board on the back and then the PMI fiasco of turning it into a cheap 500 brand like all the rest. I sold it at a loss and regretted it. I had transformers on every input channel and loved the auxes and groups but it was faulty op amps that were a problem. So glad I didn't buy the full size one PMI were trying to shift cheap after a Music Messe. God only knows how that connected. I hope Paul Wolff helps you out but it was still experimental I feel.

 

[zzzzz]

I had invested quite early and it was a great sounding mixer and I wanted to expand but I hated the connection board on the back and then the PMI fiasco of turning it into a cheap 500 brand like all the rest. I sold it at a loss and regretted it. I had transformers on every input channel and loved the auxes and groups but it was faulty op amps that were a problem. So glad I didn't buy the full size one PMI were trying to shift cheap after a Music Messe. God only knows how that connected. I hope Paul Wolff helps you out but it was still experimental I feel.

It’s a great sounding board and has largely treated us very well. Hundreds of records mixed on it and in use every day.

As far as I know we haven’t had any known issues with opamps, but I did have a quiet MX2 line amp (transformerless) come back to life after blindly swapping a socketed DIP8 opamp (this was 5 years ago)

When you say faulty opamps, do you mean the potted discrete ones? Or ICs? Likewise, what issues did you run into?

 

[JohnRoberts]

Paul Wolff is still a member here (his handle is "fix") but I haven't seen him around lately.

JR