oh, how presumptous of me, looks like they have it in their catalogues after all..

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eventually we should have enough willing buyers to import a container load...

add me to the list...

talking of thrift stores, i got a tandy handheld baseball game yesterday, from 1981 ..

hey mate, Can you just put that A800 aside for me please. The markIII. I know theres a debate about the transformers in the markI and II and the ICs in the III and IV's, but jesus-its a studer. I'll be up for lunch.

theres an awsome website for musical equipment, music123.com but it doesnt export overseas and it sucks coz theres a mint washburn flying V there all the dimebag signiture ragen guitars are on special too most have like 3 or 400 bucks knocked off the price (i would have thought the price would have gone up ?)

^^^^ you could agrue though if there was a better selection maybe they would sell more,

i dont know though just a thought,

Heh a friend of mine picked up a Ricky Bass off trademe for just over $800 so there are some great deals out there - you've just gotta hunt for them a bit - but thats half the fun right? :-)

Probably the cheapest new gear retailer in te UK is Turnkey
turnkey.co.uk
they have some great deals and generally its cheaper than anywhere. With the strength of the NZ dollar at the moment its worth looking at.
An AT4033 for 160 quid? I remember when they first came out and they cost $1300. Forget the rodes mics, they're shit.

figure 8 in a decca tree?
what kind of decca tree are you putting together?
I know there is a technique that replaces the center/front omni with a M/S setup. Is that what what you're doing? How does that sound?
Seriously, look into the AT 4033, a great general purpose LDC. Its only cardiod but has a 10db pad, bass roll off and is sturdy and sounds good. Good on vocals, acgtr, drums, bass amps, brass. That whole AT '40' range is quite fantastic value for money. York Street has 2 of them and they hardly ever get used I beleive.
If you ever track down any AKG451's you'll never regret it. The old range has different caps that screw on-cardiod, omni, figure 8, -10db, -20db, and also a funky swivle joint that makes the mic kind of 'side address' and makes them excellent for drum kits.
In a similar vein the Octava 012 are also excellent SDC.
I havn't used the Rodes K2 as I avoid them in the same way as I avoid mackies.
No one I know has one.

figure 8 in a decca tree?
//what kind of decca tree are you putting together?
I know there is a technique that replaces the center/front omni with a M/S setup. Is that what what you're doing? How does that sound?//

ohhh i am so bad!
i was meaning mid side but wrote decca tree

i used an octava MK-012 as the cardioid
and K2 as the figure 8
it sounded really nice
brought out the HF really crisply, caught a lot of the resonance i hadn't picked up with the studio projects C4's i used last time

in all honesty i haven't used too many microphones c414, 57, NTK etc. the basics, so it's a matter of what i've heard
and the other rodes i've used (NT3, NTK, NT5) have all been marginal but the K2 really takes the cake, i know lee prebble has two which he uses for vocals and overheads
i rate the re 20 very highly, how have you found it?
for a nice sharp kick i prefer it to the d112 immensly and it really sounds nice on the toms i've used it on

speaking of mackie what other -$3000 desks would you recomend then?
i'd probably go at the mo for an allen and heath 14 Mono+2 Stereo 6 Aux 4 Group desk.
what are the other alternatives in your opinion in that price range
seeing as i can't buy neves...

9.5 time out of 10 I'll use the D112 on kick and get rocking results. Even with the pretty extreme eq curve it has I'll often put a small condenser on the batter side for more attack. Re20s I have a love/hate relationship with. They work on some drums, some bass cabinets, some vocals, some horns-but not with the regularity of the others I have. Perhaps I should check out this K2. I'd feel strange doing it, but hey. I'm currently trying to convince this guy I know to sell me his two altec 195's. It will happen and I will never be forced into resorting to a sm57 ever again.

I seems to remember that we used a drum kit for the test. We split the mic signals so we could feed both the mackie and the A and H the exact same thing. We then routed all microphones to eight outputs and put it to tape (this was before protools). We compared the sound back from tape machine,stroked our chins, and decided that the A and H sounded good. the mackie sounded like puss.
The slew rate relates to the speed at which a curcuit reacts to transients of an input signal. Very important ,as transients have a lot of information in them in terms of overtones and space.

yes, york strret. And that is a very special desk. there was only six of them made. U2 has one or two of the other ones. Revolver used to have a couple of neves but they sold them offshore as did the guys in the south island. Neil Finn has just installed an incredible neve that he got from the states and the only other one that I know of in NZ is the SHEP NEVE at Mr Gubays place in Devonport. Weta , as far as I know use Euphonics consoles. Very interesting as they have an anolog signal path but everything (routing/eq/dynamics/snapshots) is controlled digitally. Its completely recallable just like a protools session. AND they sound fantastic. Very expensive to buy new, but they are becoming (relatively) reasonable on the secondhand market.

that is priceless.

that rant is quite brilliant

what i also really like on that mesage board is the picture by monkeyboy's post, with Kermit slapping away.