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Tech discussion => 4K,6K,8K Series => Topic started by: amillar on January 01, 2019, 01:14:36 PM

Title: Memories of the Development of the G series Desk
Post by: amillar on January 01, 2019, 01:14:36 PM

(2nd Jan 18:10 UK time: Apologies, I've decided to temporarily remove these posts as I may have unintentionally caused offence  :'( Hope to replace soon!

Thanks for your understanding and patience!

Andy)

Title: Re: Memories of the Development of the G series Desk
Post by: ULH on January 01, 2019, 08:57:01 PM

Amazing stories!
Please keep ‘em coming. Very much appriciated.

Cheers,
Uffe Lund-Hansen - Frostbox Copenhagen

Title: Re: Memories of the Development of the G series Desk
Post by: amillar on January 01, 2019, 09:34:52 PM

Many thanks - I'll try not to make you wait another year for the next instalment!  :)

One more thing I've just remembered (I think I have told this story before here somewhere): I guess everyone here knows that each EQ had it's own LF knob colour, so of course we needed a new knob colour for the G series EQ, and the only Sifam colour we hadn't already used was yellow. That's good I thought, goes with the whole idea of these being the "gold cards", and so for the first G series equipped desk I specified yellow LF knobs. I vividly remember Colin Sanders walking into the room, stepping back as if he'd been hit, and saying "you can't use that colour, it looks horrible." And when I stood back and looked again I realised he was absolutely right. So since we didn't really expect to fit '242 EQs to G series desks we (after some debate) reused the black knobs, expecting that we would still use brown for '02s (classic E series) and orange for '132s (Pultecs). Not sure we ever did though!

Cheers,

Andy

 

Title: Re: Memories of the Development of the G series Desk
Post by: pascal.verdet on January 02, 2019, 09:48:12 AM

Hi Andy,

Very nice description.
Happy new year.

Cheers,
Pascal

Title: Re: Memories of the Development of the G series Desk
Post by: Clip6 on January 02, 2019, 02:46:27 PM

Thanks Andy.

We need to find you a channel module. Must be one laying around somewhere.

Thanks for being here. All the guys who own these consoles are a special lot.

We always look forward to hearing your stories.

Title: Re: Memories of the Development of the G series Desk
Post by: Tonemiester on January 02, 2019, 04:28:39 PM

Andy,
I love the history!. Great reading. Maybe a book in the future?

Mike

Title: Re: Memories of the Development of the G series Desk
Post by: amillar on January 02, 2019, 05:15:46 PM

I've often thought that if we could get people to contribute you make an amazing TV documentary about the 1977-1990ish years - definitely a "truth is stranger than fiction" story...I reckon it would take a very persuasive person to get the memories together though, there were some strong personalities involved which is what made it so interesting.

Cheers,

Andy

Title: Re: Memories of the Development of the G series Desk
Post by: Tonemiester on January 02, 2019, 10:26:40 PM

You definitely wouldn't have a problem finding people to do audio post!

Title: Re: Memories of the Development of the G series Desk
Post by: xmax on January 22, 2019, 03:26:37 PM

Please repost story, if anybody is offended they can offer the way they remembered
it. SSL has an amazing legacy, you can't make an "omelette" like that without cracking
a few eggs...