Nearly 3 hours of SSL 6048 E|G+ Install Video Journal

[006]

Pretty cool to watch, almost 3 hours total, though some may not mind that

I found it here on Rig-Talk, but I believe it was originally posted on GearSlutz. Check it out!

Goes through getting the old setup out of the studio, bringing the SSL in, hooking everything up, redoing the patch bays, checking everything and fixing stuff that is not working. Really cool to watch from start to finish and kind of gives you an insight to what an undertaking some consoles command, beyond the money involved, and all the things that come up that will make you pull your hair out.

 

[xTomx]

Been watching this and James' studio videos religiously, so much gear envy...

 

[C_F_H_13]

saw this before and it's very cool and I love james and his contributions....but they made a total noob mistake by not unloading the console before moving it. They added hundreds of pounds of extra weight that was un necessary and probably could of cause alot of damage to such an old console.

 

[DigitalMetal]

saw this before and it's very cool and I love james and his contributions....but they made a total noob mistake by not unloading the console before moving it. They added hundreds of pounds of extra weight that was un necessary and probably could of cause alot of damage to such an old console.

+1

would have bee so much easier to lift and move. each module can be half a Kg on its own if not more.

Plus it was making me cringe a bit having all those guitars sitting there while ripping stuff out,
First thing i would have done would be to get everything out that didnt need to be there to minimise damage.

 

[Jarkko Mattheiszen]

Yeah, I've been following this, too. Three days hunting down a ground buzz. I'm so glad LFC's aren't a necessity these days

 

[DigitalMetal]

Welcome to my world, i do that for a living,
Yesterday was my most WTF moment so far in my job,
Got a call to say there was a clicking every now and again on a mic channel in a studio,
After a few mins we tracked it down to a chair!

Everytime you sit on , stand up or move this chair the mic channel clicked,
it was a office type chair with plastic wheels and nylon fabric covered, and there were carpet tiles on the floor in this studio, it must have been a static build up or something because we removed the chair from the studio and it didnt happen again, Fuck knows how it was getting up to the desk though, odd eh !
Moral of this story it isnt always the studio equipment lol
We have a lot of analogue consoles that we are just about managing to keep running until the end of the year when we go 100% digital and its a constant battle to search for crackles, hums and noises sometime we are lucky and its just the contacts on those B guage jack fields (you see them using in the video) a bit oxidised and a wiggle or a clean and they are fine.