Steve Hudson wrote on Wed, 22 October 2008 07:09 |
Yesterday I checked out the QE broadcast console that had the pair of 712s and couldn't justify the seller's price for the expense and hassle of reracking all of its useful components. I'll just have to wait for another pair to show up on the open market. The other pair here in Austin (with a pair of 227 preamps) sold on ebay for a song last week (half what the seller had offered them to me last month). I'm ticked that he didn't come back to me first! |
Steve Hudson wrote on Wed, 22 October 2008 17:16 |
He came down to $7K but I couldn't make the numbers work even at that price. |
JGauthier wrote on Wed, 22 October 2008 23:38 | ||
I think you made the right decision. To part out and rack all that stuff isn't cheap plus its time consuming for sure. Plus Q8 really doesn't sell like API, Neve etc... The guy selling that board is slightly confused as to the real value of its parts. Even the bits and pieces hes tried to sell are way overpriced. I paid 650 a channel for my MM61s and I thought that was a little high (but they had be 100% serviced and recapped). I think his original asking price of 20 grand says it all... And with all the complaints about the master bus on old Q8s- its hard to want to keep the board as a whole ESPECIALLY considering the seller admits the master section is screwed. The only good option for that is to part it out and he still wants too much... Can you imagine how much servicing that stuff would need... |
JGauthier wrote on Sun, 19 October 2008 02:50 |
Ive seen them called cinema eqs and motown eqs |
Fletcher wrote on Thu, 23 October 2008 10:11 | ||
Not to piss on the lawn... but the "Motown EQ"s were Langevins... not Quad Eights or Electrodynes. Carry on. Peace. |
Fletcher wrote on Thu, 23 October 2008 12:11 | ||
Not to piss on the lawn... but the "Motown EQ"s were Langevins... not Quad Eights or Electrodynes. Carry on. Peace. |
JGauthier wrote on Thu, 23 October 2008 12:48 | ||||
Thats always been my understanding as well but Ive read otherwise on the net- which is also why I called them umpa lumpa eqs. I don't buy that these had a special reputation, and if they did it was probably bad because of their limitations by nature. I probably didn't make that point clear- theres so little info on the net (and bad info as well) I would love to hear from the old schoolers who may have used the Warner Bros board or these eqs back in the day to clear things up! But agreed- these are NOT the infamous "motown EQs". And I think Orphan Audio is the one I read who called them cinema eqs on their forum- though I had never heard that phrase before. |
Silvertone wrote on Fri, 24 October 2008 04:41 |
btw I own four of the original channels from the old Warner console as it was Danny at Requisite Audio who bought the console and parted it out 20 years ago. He kept 4 modules and sold them to me 6 years ago and got me started down this whole path... |
JGauthier wrote on Fri, 24 October 2008 16:34 | ||
So the Warner board did have 10 of these large panel graphic eqs? I have #1 and #10 and they don't say ANYTHING on the outside- no Q8 or Edyne. Only the soldered name "quad eight eq 712" on the back so I would agree that they were not built by q8. Which numbers do you have then Larry? Or did you mean the pre/eq modules. Regardless of how similar the build was, I would never call them motown EQs cause they really aren't. And I doubt anybody seriously in the market for the infamous "motown eqs" would consider these the same regardless of sonics. |
Silvertone wrote on Fri, 24 October 2008 04:41 |
Now as far as the 712 graphics go, correct me if I'm wrong but if they are the same inductors with the same op-amp make-up gain how different can they sound? |