What's the latest gear you've acquired?

I had to liquidate a descent chunk of gear to bridge some money situations. I’ll be on the other side of that in November, where I can recoup and rebuild the studio. Kind of good as it forced me to sell several medium-cost items and now I have a budget to work with. First stop is ATC monitors and more acoustic treatment.

Welp, I ended up liking proxy's post before I read your post.

But I liked it because of the note of optimism and phoenix-like renewal at the end. :-)

Moved up on a new Milab DC-196 rectangular capsule mic--my second one. Use them on a stereo bar with a spacing of about 8 inches for stereo pick up of singers. A la Andreas Scholl sound.

Milab now supplying the mic in a fancy wooden box instead of a vinyl box. Since I take my gear out to halls, I prefer the utilitarian vinyl case over the wood one which will get beat up over time.

Got the Vox AC30 home and no sound! Strangely the heater fuse was "blown" but the fuse still tested good. Swapped it and it works great now. I think the previous owner flipped it from 8 ohm to 16 ohm and probably caused the issue based on how the speakers were wired. It had an old Jensen P12N 50 watt alnico speaker so I pulled that out and put in another Warehouse Reaper 30 I found for $50 on Facebook. Probably toss the Jensen in a Fender amp.

Also snagged two QRD diffusers on Marketplace for $100. Nicely built, no brand. Not sure what I'm going to do with them but worth a lot more than $100!

Tomorrow I’m getting an Evans E200 amp for $100 that blows fuses…maybe it’s something simple. It’s an older one with an actual spring reverb instead of digital effects like modern ones and I think it’ll be nice for pedal steel players at the studio.

Might also grab this Fuchs Feiten 2x12 cabinet because it’s the only one that can likely fit in our “amp cubby”. Opinions seem limited/mixed on the cabs themselves.

Just chipping away at making the studio as flexible and "plug and play" as I can get it.

I got a small record contract to create a solo album sort of in a prog vein. I wanted to do some really sludgy guitars for parts. So, I picked up an Orange OR15. Perfect for me. It gets close to the Rockerverb sound for 1/4 the price. I'm a bit surprised. It actually sounds better than I thought it would. Plus, being in a studio setting, I didn't need any more than 15 watts. I also bought some OwnHammer cabinet impulses for recording as well. Now I need to find a nice and cheap baritone guitar. :-)

Oh, yeah -- and a DeArmand hum bucker pickup for my acoustic guitar. This things sounds amazing, especially for the low price (~$85).

Mine arrived with a screw rattling/rolling around inside. And, channel two was not working.

I opened it up and removed the screw that was rolling around so that it wouldn't bang into a tube and crack it if I was moving the device around.

I was admonished by Josh to contact them first otherwise I will have voided the warranty.

That's ridiculous, I would have to basically just leave it in a single position and not move it whatsoever so I could be sure that the screw that was rattling around didn't crack a glass tube.

How about we make a pact that the build team doesn't leave random screws rattling around in devices, and users promise not to open it without contacting Stam first.

By the way, I can't think of a single other device I have from another manufacturer that voids the warranty if you open the lid. Do you guys know of any? Is this common for pro audio gear that studios will have technicians available to fix?

While we're being transparent here, there was also a knob that was broken and they had to ship out of replacement plastic knob.

Long story short, when I opened it up I removed the screw that was rattling around, still don't know if it was supposed to be screwed in somewhere, and reseated The tubes which had come loose in shipping so that the channel 2 worked. And I got my new plastic knob in the mail and attached that.

lowlou you probably don't want to leave that rattly thing in there in case it bangs into and cracks a tube when you move the device, so you will probably want to remove that screw that's rattling around, assuming it's a screw. Stam has stuck that warranty sticker on the back. Fortunately The ones I've seen not very adherent lol. So you can probably just pick it off and open it up and stick the warranty sticker back on with no one being the wiser.

It's probably best to notify Stam about your situation though. And see what their advice is in terms of the thing that's rattling around in there.

I've got a question for you, do you know if your device shipped with the older op amp, or the replacement op amp? I received a replacement up amp and have not yet done the switch out.

Here it's the 2 chokes that went a bit lose during transportation. The microscopic mid band 3 position switch needed my pliers too, but it's all good now.
I contacted Josh before doing anything to be fair. It's always better to do that !

You're gonna like the disruptors ! I have them in DIYre colour format and I like them. I think you should also look into the Standard Audio Stretch modules, later, if you think you need a different flavour.

(& when/if you decide to sell this 740 of yours, hit me up !)

xxxxx
Louis

I finally bought a Beyer M88. For all of the talk around here it had BETTER BE GOOD

So opening a tube device to change it’s tubes voids it’s warranty.

That’s the most ridiculous thing I’ve ever heard in pro audio!

I bought some Jensen Torando 100 speakers that were advertised at 8 ohm but I got home and they’re 16! Whoops! I need a pair of 8 ohm speakers so the search continues…I think my buddy Guthrie Trapp is just going to give me some because he said he has a “pallet” of them in storage 😆

Otherwise, I ordered tubes for the Vox AC30 because after working for a bit it blew the fuse again. Most likely the rectifier and/or power tubes but since it’s such a PITA to take it apart to swap them I decided just to get a whole new set. Also got some for my Goodsell Super 17 IV

I’ve definitely been in guitar/guitar amp/speaker cab mode. I don’t know why. Needed a change from sniffing around for recording stuff I guess!