What is This?? Strange Ebay Gear

[ChuckD]

Anybody know what this is????

I was thinking it might be cool to GUT and throw 8 GREENs in there... I wonder if those VUs are Analog (real VU) or DC...

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=5719230978&ssPageName=STRK:MEWA:IT

or ebay.com => item # = 5719230978

????

-ChuckD

 

[thermionic]

Shame he doesn't ship outside the US, looks like a bargain to me!

Listed under consumer electronics - other gadgets...

Hopefully the unusual category should ensure a low price, or you could email him and see what he'll take before the auction runs its course.

Looks like record / repro amps to me. Either way the meters will be able to work with a diy unit if you're prepared to work out how to drive them, or they may be VU anyway.

Email him and get it before anyone else does I say!

Justin

 

[PRR]

> GUT and throw 8 GREENs in there

Count again: seven meters.

At first it looks like part of a 8/16/24-track recorder. But 7 don't fit.

Must be some odd industrial instrumentation or datalogging.

You will find a way to use the meters. At today's price it seems a good deal if you want a box like that.

 

[SSLtech]

Sattelite datalogging might be a good bet.

An old and very dear friend of mine once built a vacuum-tube, 1" analogue 8-track recorded using an old Ampex 7-track sattelite datalogger transport. It became known as "the Jolly Green Giant" and sounded fantastic. -Only trouble was he'd used two offeset heads to get the 8 tracks, so nothing was compatable with other machines. -If you recorded on that machine, you mixed off of that machine!

Keith

 

[thermionic]

I guess the BNC connections give a clue that it's not a conventional amp

Why not build 7 pres into one case and sell off the other unit? You could probably sell the meters for $5-10 a pop I guess?

J

 

[jrmintz]

They might be remote electronics for duping chain slaves.

 

[nacho459]

That'll make a perfect meter bridge for my 14 track :wink:

 

[SSLtech]

Actually, I had missed the fact that it was an Ampex device...

Which means I'm almost positive it's from a datalogger, very similar to what was used to make the "Jolly Green Giant".

(The aforementioned green Giant was -last time I heard- still in service, just a few miles from mark Burnley's front door, across the river Mersey, in a house in Oxton. -if it ever needed service I'd happily recommend Mark to look after it, if Peter was unable to do so for whatever reason.)

Keith

 

[toby]

hey keith,

does your friend use the recorder comercially? i'd wondered about a project like that.......


toby