VestaFire PR-1000?

[tsunami1052]

Anyone have information about the VestaFire PR-1000Preamp?

Search result got me nothing.

Thanx

[bongomania]

No, but now I'm intrigued too. I can tell you that about 26 years ago I had a Vesta Fire 4-track recorder; one of the buttons broke; I wrote them about it (snail mail, because we didn't have email back then); just a few days later, I received a complete set of new buttons, airmail from Japan. Who knows if their service is the same this many years later.

[tsunami1052]

bassnw.com has a used one for sale. I can't find any info on the web.

[NecroticImbecil]

Something from a Japanese site, from some of the entries that Google translated (it wouldn't translate this one) he may be a modder or restorer.

http://www.geocities.jp/dgb_studio/G_amp.htm

Vesta fire PR-1000 Preamplifire

Was sold into the tattered case.ぼろぼろのケースに入って売られていた。 Parametric EQ with limiter I have three stages.パラメトリックEQが3段にリミッターが付いてる。
bass: 50Hz-500Hz, mid: 100Hz-5KHz, High: 1K-10KHz bass:50Hz-500Hz,mid:100Hz-5KHz,High:1K-10KHz
I'd find a schematic, I opened the lid回路図がほしいけど見つからず、蓋をあけてみると
JRC 4562Dx6 JRC 4562Dx6
JRC 5534Dx2 JRC 5534Dx2
JRC 4556Dx2 JRC 4556Dx2
JRC 4559Dx1 JRC 4559Dx1
Was used.が使われていた。
The regulator pin 3 +-9V is made. 3端子レギュレーターで+-9Vを作っている。

I tried the magnetic pickups and acoustic guitar-based sound like and the fabric parametric EQ and limiter.ベースと電磁ピックアップの生ギターで使ってみたが、 パラメトリックEQやリミッターで好みの音が作れた。

JRC5532 JRC4562 to change it to two. JRC4562の2個をJRC5532に交換しました。

From the remains of old auctions - show up in Google but nothing at the actual link, so here's what the Google summary shows..

Vesta Fire PR-1000 Preamplifier. Current Bid: US $75.00 (0 Bids). Ends: Sep 17, 10:22 am ..

Vesta Fire PR-1000 Preamplifier. Buy It Now: US $59.99. Ends: Sep 22, 10:34

From new york craigslist:

7) Vesta Fire PR-1000, Instrument Preamp, Eq, Limiter, $275
80s Japan, Rare \

Maybe the prices at least are some help.. the $75 may have ended with no bids, can't tell, and I doubt the optimistic dude is going to get $$275. The EQ section looks nice and flexible. The mid section reminds me of my old Peavey combo, I loved the EQ on that thing.

From the Vestax web site, company name hiustory might give a clue as to when this was produced:

1982
Changes its company name to Shiino Vesta Fire Corporation (SVFC).

1985
Establishes Vesta Fire USA for entry into the musical electronics and new markets.

1987
Changes its company name to Vestax Corporation.

[tsunami1052]

Thanx

[bongomania]

Trivia: Vesta was the Greek goddess of the fireplace. True!

[NecroticImbecil]

SO the "Fire" makes sense, though as a name for musical gear, not so much.

I still have a Vesta Fire 4 track recorder that uses those big rattly cartridge things that the cavemen had back before SD cards, with the two little fear shaped wheel thingies... whatever they were called...

When the knobs are set just exactly right, it can produce the most awesome bass distortion ever heard. Really tough to find that sweet spot though. It's been very dependable ever since I bought it, back in the Pleistocene when it was new.

Assuming the preamp works, and I'd think that given the store's rep it would, I wouldn't worry about reliability. No idea what it actually sounds like though.

[madmachinist]

don't know that model preamp, but "vesta" made all sorts
of stuff from the mundane "vesta fire chorus pedal" .....
to the wild : vrx-2000 portable record lathe!

http://www.engadget.com/2005/05/21/v...ssic-wax-dude/

i have 2 "vesta-koza" rack digital delays, which are still going
strong ,since i bought them used in the late 1980's .

my "vestax" 4 track crapped out a few years ago....but it
was 20 years old ,and had 4-5 cracks in the case where it
was dropped over and over from the mic cords being yanked.