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Caljam74 Mixer for sale
Jeff Bankston:
ebay item number 311118827427. some guy on ebay has it. not me.
Ivan Beaver:
--- Quote from: Jeff Bankston on October 18, 2014, 12:18:31 AM ---ebay item number 311118827427. some guy on ebay has it. not me.
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One interesting thing is the 0 position of the knobs. Not at 12 but rather at 6 oclock.
Kustom (yes the rolled and pleated guys) made a couple of "professional" mixers before they went out of business.
I was told there were 7 made-at one time I owned 3 of them and knew who owned a 4th.
It had individual removable channels-a 5 band eq-switchable high and low pass filters-switchable limiters etc.
The really weird thing was the effects. There was no buss-but rather an individual input/output on each channel.
Things were not so "standard" back in those days.
I would like to have the Tychobrahe mixer-but not at that price--------
Art Welter:
--- Quote from: Ivan Beaver on October 18, 2014, 08:33:49 AM ---One interesting thing is the 0 position of the knobs. Not at 12 but rather at 6 oclock.
Things were not so "standard" back in those days.
I would like to have the Tychobrahe mixer-but not at that price--------
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Ivan,
Until just now looking at Jim Gamble's 1974 Tycobrahe Blue board I had not realized that the latter Yamaha PM1000 copied Jim's "upside down" knob position, following his "standard". Since the latter PM consoles adopted the "normal" 0 dB at the top of the knob position, I had assumed that the odd PM1000 knob layout was a Japanese convention that was left behind when Yamaha mixing consoles reached worldwide acceptance as an industry "standard" desk.
Learn something old every day ;^).
Art
Ivan Beaver:
--- Quote from: Art Welter on November 06, 2014, 09:11:00 AM ---Ivan,
Until just now looking at Jim Gamble's 1974 Tycobrahe Blue board I had not realized that the latter Yamaha PM1000 copied Jim's "upside down" knob position, following his "standard". Since the latter PM consoles adopted the "normal" 0 dB at the top of the knob position, I had assumed that the odd PM1000 knob layout was a Japanese convention that was left behind when Yamaha mixing consoles reached worldwide acceptance as an industry "standard" desk.
Learn something old every day ;^).
Art
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Makes you wonder who really did it first-and why?
All the stereo gear-guitar amps (that I have seen) rotate through the top (12 oclock) positon-not through the 6 oclock position.
There is probably a valid reason-I would love to hear it.
Jim Turner:
--- Quote from: Ivan Beaver on November 06, 2014, 11:50:52 AM ---There is probably a valid reason-I would love to hear it.
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The reason as explained to me is that on a "large format" console it is difficult to see where the knob is actually pointing without leaning way over to take a look. Having the upside-down orientation kind of makes ergonomic sense.
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