Sound Workshop 1600
I bought this in 1998 at an auction for 40 bucks.
It came from the University Of New Mexico.
This is how it sat in The Barn for the last 6 years.
It wasn't until 2004 that I found any info on this console.
Since Chris was in Baltimore for recording
school,
I took it back with me and rebuilt it.
My wife and I stripped it down to the frame
then put the frame in the van
then put all the channel strips back in
to get it ready for the trip to Baltimore
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Chris and I did the same thing to get it into
the apartment and up on some milk crates.
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Around this time I got a partial set of schematics.
I had a little bit of test equipment.
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The first thing to do is get the Power Supply working.
On the left I replace the terminal blocks.
On the right is what's left of the old ones.
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I came across some cool legs at work.
I went down to lowe's and had a piece of 1X8
cut to 48". And used it to put the legs together.
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Stripped it down again to clean
the motherboard and the edge connectors
Also painted the legs and stained the wood
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A large part of this project
was installing and wiring the connectors
I want it to be moveable so it needs connectors
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The mic line is shielded and all the
balanced pairs are hand twisted pairs
Got rid of a 12 pin molex per channel
and the Mic signal doesn't go through
the motherboard to get to the preamp.
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Reupolstered the armrest
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Another night of wiring and
troubleshooting a channel strip
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The new meter bridge is done
Mirror Finish Stainless Steel
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Above Last Updated on May 24, 2004
I kept working on it. Re-capping it and upgrading
most of the op-amps . Replacing broken switches and missing knobs.
Kind of boring to most people so I'll add a seperate page later
for the tech stuff and some places I bought parts.
Chris finished recording school in June.
So we packed everything up and took it home to Arkansas.
Then we started building a control room for the new console.
The plan was to build a 10'X 12' room that would
include half of my 4'X 12' workbench.
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We really didn't use any soundproofing. This is a
small wooden barn built on cinderblocks. It will never
be very soundproof. We just needed some isolation. I did
use a bunch of caulking on all the seams and fixtures.
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Around here we had to stop for our annual Tickfest.
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But we got right back to work after the party
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