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[New Orleans Steve]

O.K.
I have recently spied a couple of pieces of gear that I am unfamiliar with. Can anyone help with my homework?

1st up "Pandora's Box"; a compressor of some sort. VCA? Sited for individual tracks?

2nd A Pultec "EQP 1 A3" silver (brushed aluminum?) I think it's 2 spaces. Is this a tube unit, or is this the 2520 based version. Is it originally for music or some other application?

Steve

[Fletcher]

Pandora's Box... man does that bring back some memories... about 1/2 a rack width wide stand alone unit if I remember correctly [I don't think I've seen one in 15 or so years!!]... from what I remember it was an "interesting effect" but that's about as much as I remember of them.

As for Pultec EQP-1A3's they came in both tube and solid state [API 2520 op-amp].  The "1A3" was the 2RU version of the Pultec EQP-1A with a silver face plate... the old Power Station [now known as Avatar] used to have 24 of them in line with the outputs of the tape machines... at some point Ed Evans [the original Power Station Chief Engineer] installed a hard wire bypass switch on them... there are still like a dozen in each room at Avatar.

[New Orleans Steve]

THANKS Fletcher!

The Pandora's Box is actually 2 rack spaces full with 2 chanel. I'm gona try to give it a spin. If so, I will post my impressions.

I'm still wondering if it'a a VCA unit - somehow I'm inclined to think so.

Steve

[Fletcher]

Hmmm... the only "Pandora's Box" I had ever seen was at Capricorn Studios in Macon, GA... there were two little units that were in the "cassette dupe closet".

Best of luck with 'um... definitely give a shout back if they're cool!!

[Jan Folkson]

I was at Avatar Studio A just yesterday twidling those knobs.  There were several but I couldn't tell you how many.