Funny maybe 35 years ago, here in Louisville, Allen Martin Productions had a board very similar, using Spectra Sonics components, Slidex attenuators, Api Meters. I could have had it for a song. It was huge. I later found it decaying in a shed. A fellow with dreams far exceeding his pockbook, got it, and it just decayed away. I could have cried. I did manage to recover a couple of Scully 280s, which I still have and use. Thanks for this posting! PS> I still have some SS power supplies ,and 700 cards, and they too still sound fantastic.
wow, I hope I can be in that room and run some of mine music thru this! what a beauty! I love those routing switches with the warm shining light bulbs in it. looks like a xmas tree to me!
When that console was housed st BRToad (owned by Leonard Lubin & Barry Shankman, the first owners from the first auction of the equipment) we recorded there with Alex Chilton, he produced 4 Klitz songs there in December 1978. ( Available on The Klitz, Rocking the Memphis Underground on Monitone). Then in 1979 Jim Dickinson recorded the Klitz for Barbarian records on that same equipment! So that means our DNA is there too! That microphone we used was the same one Otis Redding sang into!🎶
Curious. What does Phillips mean when he says the board has great bottom end to it? Isn't what makes a board quality is the ability to dial into any frequency?
As posted…. Yes. The gear is great. What is lost is the ART of crafting good pop music with harmony, melody, and great musicianship. Musicians that listen well and play dynamically. Plus to get them all in the same room, no distractions (phones), and $$ to pay them along with the recording assistant, engineer, producer, ARRANGER (strings/winds/brass/choir/etc. Oh…. an important factor TAPE. Tape is the medium, it has so much definition that digital cannot reproduce. People don’t buy music anymore which results in people making cheap music. The “major” artists today are on a total different planet. Their Music? I call it bullshit.
Record companies don’t create music. Musicians do. If they wanted to be playing the music of the 1950s, there’d be nothing stopping them, but artists naturally forge ahead.
The talented artists that ARE around (Bruno Mars, Usher, Beyonce) dumb the music down beyond belief almost to novelty-song status.... Bruno has some great TRACKS but the childish lyrics.... where is the next Teddy Pendergrass, Peabo Bryson, Cheryl Lynn etc??
Great video. Stax an iconic label that is the soundtrack of my life. Thanks for sharing
Very cool, the console is a music history piece. Take care of it.
This is great to see - hope it attracts a whole new generation of music makers and inspires them to make great music.
Funny maybe 35 years ago, here in Louisville, Allen Martin Productions had a board very similar, using Spectra Sonics components, Slidex attenuators, Api Meters. I could have had it for a song. It was huge. I later found it decaying in a shed. A fellow with dreams far exceeding his pockbook, got it, and it just decayed away. I could have cried. I did manage to recover a couple of Scully 280s, which I still have and use. Thanks for this posting! PS> I still have some SS power supplies ,and 700 cards, and they too still sound fantastic.
wow, I hope I can be in that room and run some of mine music thru this! what a beauty! I love those routing switches with the warm shining light bulbs in it. looks like a xmas tree to me!
This is so cool, every piece of gear in that room is amazing, I couldn’t imagine getting to work there. Spectra Sonics made some amazing stuff!!!!!
Really cool, dudes! 🤘😜
When that console was housed st BRToad (owned by Leonard Lubin & Barry Shankman, the first owners from the first auction of the equipment) we recorded there with Alex Chilton, he produced 4 Klitz songs there in December 1978. ( Available on The Klitz, Rocking the Memphis Underground on Monitone). Then in 1979 Jim Dickinson recorded the Klitz for Barbarian records on that same equipment! So that means our DNA is there too! That microphone we used was the same one Otis Redding sang into!🎶
Savy musicians in Austin know that Memphis is the place to go live, work and play.
Ohhhh they like to try
Curious. What does Phillips mean when he says the board has great bottom end to it? Isn't what makes a board quality is the ability to dial into any frequency?
As posted…. Yes. The gear is great. What is lost is the ART of crafting good pop music with harmony, melody, and great musicianship. Musicians that listen well and play dynamically. Plus to get them all in the same room, no distractions (phones), and $$ to pay them along with the recording assistant, engineer, producer, ARRANGER (strings/winds/brass/choir/etc. Oh…. an important factor TAPE. Tape is the medium, it has so much definition that digital cannot reproduce.
People don’t buy music anymore which results in people making cheap music. The “major” artists today are on a total different planet. Their Music? I call it bullshit.
Well fucking said
Agreed, you need more than a laptop to call yourself an engineer or producer, which is all it takes nowadays.
Record companies don’t create music. Musicians do. If they wanted to be playing the music of the 1950s, there’d be nothing stopping them, but artists naturally forge ahead.
Bet Lil Durk will do it justice.
The only thing that is missing is the sound of yesterday's music. The record companys of today don't want to revive that music and That's sad.
The talented artists that ARE around (Bruno Mars, Usher, Beyonce) dumb the music down beyond belief almost to novelty-song status.... Bruno has some great TRACKS but the childish lyrics.... where is the next Teddy Pendergrass, Peabo Bryson, Cheryl Lynn etc??