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Author Topic: Valley People KEPEX and GATEX and GAINBRAIN  (Read 3745 times)

George_

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Valley People KEPEX and GATEX and GAINBRAIN
« on: February 11, 2009, 03:08:35 AM »

just got a rack in.. loaded with those modules.. also KEPEX II and the older Allison Reasearch channels..

one interesting thing:
the company logo is always different.. one has the illuminati Pyramid on it..

some background on mr. Valley People? sound?

thanx
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Re: Valley People KEPEX and GATEX and GAINBRAIN
« Reply #1 on: February 11, 2009, 07:58:01 PM »

As I understand it:

Paul C. Buff started a recording studio in the greater Los Angeles area in the early 60's, was involved in the recording of surf music, worked with Frank Zappa and at Art Laboe's Original Sound recording studio and developed Allison Research in CA.

He moved to Nashville and merged Allison Research with Valley People. Universal Audio has an interview with Doc Morgan which outlines some of the history.

http://www.uaudio.com/webzine/2008/april/index4.html

Now PMI (of Joemeek, Studio Projects and Toft fame)owns Valley People and is looking to start releasing new products from the company.

The earlier products were more of what would now be called "character" units while the later generation products would have less of a "distinctive sound" and be more all around units. I currently have a mid-80s Valley people compressor which is a bit dark according to current standards but very musical.  In the mid 80's I regularly used the Allison Research gates with large format analog tape. Don't know what I'd think of them now, but they worked fine then.

Hope this helps.

Galil
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Re: Valley People KEPEX and GATEX and GAINBRAIN
« Reply #2 on: February 12, 2009, 05:48:58 AM »

I remember the Valley People 'Dyna-mite' (I think they were called). You could use them as compressors or gates, IIRC.

Very effective. Sort of similar to dbx only more versatile ... not exactly budget stuff.

They came in a sort of cream-coloured rectangular case that nowadays would look like an old modem!

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Re: Valley People KEPEX and GATEX and GAINBRAIN
« Reply #3 on: February 12, 2009, 04:57:54 PM »

I have a few of those (formerly) cream units...I painted them black...much better.

They are useful for a few "squash me" things, not really as quality day-to-day compressors.
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Re: Valley People KEPEX and GATEX and GAINBRAIN
« Reply #4 on: February 12, 2009, 06:57:11 PM »

I use my GB for crushing a room or pulling down the snare's pants and giving it a whack.
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