Finally made my way to some of the more interesting “paperweights”.
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Look what I found hidden in storage at work.
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What’s this “paper” stuff you guys are talking about, and why does it need weighing down? 
It’s the stuff they used to make telephone books from.What’s this “paper” stuff you guys are talking about, and why does it need weighing down?
For you younger ones, yes this is how we found phone numbers “back in the day”.
Now get off my yard while I shake my fists at the sky, so I listen to my transistor radio in peace.
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I'm a sucker for this kind of stuff...I have a few of the anchors you have in those racks (and some you don't). I love DBX-160a's...Pretty sure I own 4. Also have two Urei rackmount EQ's...
huh; i woulda thought the old digital stuff would indeed be paperweights, as opposed to that rack of klark EQs in your next pic that people might still want for their throwback analog home studios or whateverFinally made my way to some of the more interesting “paperweights”.
dang, yeah 75w@8Ω each, those are boat anchors. i wonder if they'd be any good for studio monitor or home theater power amps?
If our venue had a studio or the space to make one I could make use of most the unused gear.
Unfortunately storage space has been at its maximum capacity for several years. It is what it is, I deal with it.
There is a like new Midas Verona sitting in a roadcase that hasn’t been opened in 3 seasons.
I’m not even going to say what happened to the PM3500.
My best friends when in the hot seat. We had a good relationship, through the good times and the bad.
“Combat Mixing”
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The hot seat was the last place I wanted these! I used banks of these for monitors on a series of summer festivals and learned the hard way that KT gear didn’t really like the heat.
The KT delays, in particular, needed clip-on fans all over the rack or our delay towers would start making…. interesting…. sounds.
Solid equipment otherwise but keep it out of the hot seat, for sure!
This reminds me of looking at ads for once famously expensive film cameras for relative peanuts once digital photography became fully formed.
And once B&H began selling 135/36 Fujifilm Velvia for $35 a roll, my idea of picking a few up went out the window.
And once B&H began selling 135/36 Fujifilm Velvia for $35 a roll, my idea of picking a few up went out the window.
I think the biggest one in that series was 400 a channel weighed about 65 pounds, about the same as many amps in that era.
Those look like Showco gray carpet racks.
What's funny is today people complain about their 50 pound amp rig being too heavy.
Yep. There was also a rack that had comps, gates, and a couple verbs that would usually be used with the EQs.
