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Dynamax consoles

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RadioFixerCLE

Maybe old news, but I remember some people here looking for help repairing those consoles. Apparently a company call Sandies has taken over the Dynamax consoles.

Wonder how long this company will last. The consoles are expensive as sin, compared with some Arrakis models that are selling for like a quarter of the price (1,000 and change versus 5,000)
 
As they say...you get what you pay for.
At my stns those consoles have stood up decades of student abuse with almost no maint money.
Their power supplies take direct shorts without a problem
and when they do require maint...it's pretty easy to service.
The guy to contact...(the one who bought the line)...
is the same guy who had all the answers when you called Dynamax and later LPB....
Dave Strode.
The website is:
http://www.sandiesusa.com/
Good luck...
Bill
 
wwes said:
The guy to contact...(the one who bought the line)...
is the same guy who had all the answers when you called Dynamax and later LPB....
Dave Strode.
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Well, I think that anwsers the question about LPB, too - they must most certainly be out of business since he was the only "live" voice I ever spoke to there. Glad to hear Dave bounced into something promising.
 
Those Dynamax consoles are the cream of the low cost crop, IMHO...

As others have stated, those boards are bullet proof, built like a tank, just runs, and all the parts are off the shelf...very easy to keep running for years to come.

Way more than you can say for the "A" brand of consoles. Those "A" brand of consoles are indeed a fraction of the price...and built like it too.

I'm glad Dave was able to take over the line. I have one of those in my home studio...displaced by the digital conversion of a Cleveland college station...runs great after 10 years of student abuse...even the paint job stayed totally in tact...no wear, and even the silk screen is in perfect shape!

I had to do *very* little to bring that puppy back to full specs!

Worth every penny!

-C
 
I wonder if Sandies will continue building the rotary pot boards. I saw them listed in their ads, but I haven't seen them on the website.

They're what, the last manufacturer of that style of mixer? ???
 
StephanieNYC said:
I wonder if Sandies will continue building the rotary pot boards. I saw them listed in their ads, but I haven't seen them on the website.

They're what, the last manufacturer of that style of mixer? ???
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I know there's one manufacturer of digital consoles that actually makes a rotary board board with digital electronics. I don't remember the company offhand, but the concept came to be thanks to radio personality Rick Dees - he wanted a digital console with rotary pots and the company designed one loosely based on the look of the old RCA BC-7. They had been advertising in Radio World with some frequency so I'm sure someone will spot the ad and remind us who the company is.
 
Bill DeFelice said:
I know there's one manufacturer of digital consoles that actually makes a rotary board board with digital electronics. I don't remember the company offhand,
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Yeah, that would be the Dees Digital. Made by SAS, the router people. I'm assuming it was a one-off custom made job because I don't see it in their console offerings.
 
StephanieNYC said:
Bill DeFelice said:
I know there's one manufacturer of digital consoles that actually makes a rotary board board with digital electronics. I don't remember the company offhand,
Click to expand...

Yeah, that would be the Dees Digital. Made by SAS, the router people. I'm assuming it was a one-off custom made job because I don't see it in their console offerings.
Click to expand...

It's possible, but from what I remember reading in Radio World I thought there were to make it available to anybody who wanted it - I remember seeing Dees pushing the product in a few different trades.
 
The SAS guys say they'll be pleased to make you one or several. At a price.
I am more enthused by the ad I saw in BEE where a manufacturer is using another manufacturer's i.p. audio transport system for his worksurface. A step towards open architecture. Let's keep that up, guys. Let me mix n match worksurfaces to the particular need; and use whatever router system I like. It's either a Good Idea, or creeping socialism.
 
I could see using a Pac Recorders Radiomixer as a control surface, that'd be awesome!

It should be made illegal to gut one, though.
 
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