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Swinging at a bum.....8100 or?

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IFB64

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on a recent trek to a transmitter site, I had the opportunity to swing a piece of equipment at a very hostile "street person". (2:30am, equipment on a hand truck...no parking nearby...you get the picture). In my case, all I had was an Optimod 8100. The construction of the unit seemed to scare the "street person". I walked away....and used the 8100 on the air a few minutes later. So, this begs the question, which processor is better to swing at a "street person"? In my case the 8100 worked two shifts that night: personal survival, and on air processor...and the 8100 sounded great on the air.
 
I think you need to define your 'bum' a bit better. S/he could be a simple wino, a crackhead, or a nut. For the nut, the Omnia is the weapon of choice - that wild - eyed look Foti used to espouse carries over to the heft of the front panel and the general weight of the thing. For a wino, no one is more mellow that Robert Orban. Use the 8200, no need to bust up a newer one. For the crackhead, get a demo unit from every supplier, and just keep whacking him with one or another till he goes down. It's quantity, not quality, which takes him out.
 
At least no BW DSPX boxes. As they say themselves: "Small Box Big Sound". Not really impressive as a defense object, waving around with a small box of a few pounds :).
 
None of the digital boxes would survive such trauma. The CRL-4 FM system would be good. You could fight off 4 people ;D
 
wgliradio said:
None of the digital boxes would survive such trauma. The CRL-4 FM system would be good. You could fight off 4 people ;D
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Too true! Try to even move an 8200 from the studio, to a rack in the transmitter room a few miles away, and the power supply fails. Apparently these things cannot handle all that bumping around when you're driving over small potholes, etc... ;D I liked the 8100./ I miss our 8100. :( If someone would please give me the band crosssover frequency refs, I'd do my best to make a Behringer DSP replicate it. Of course some of you out there would probably call me stupid for even tryiing this, as I know we have few Behringer fans around here. ;) :)

R
 
Don't toss the processing, a cart fringed the right way emphasizes your point of view. It works on those individuals who feel the need to enter the control room when the "on-air" light is on.
 
What really sucks is that the recent boat anchors have those damn IEC power connectors.

You start swinging it around your head by the power cable, and it flies off...

:)

David Reaves
 
David Reaves said:
What really sucks is that the recent boat anchors have those damn IEC power connectors.

You start swinging it around your head by the power cable, and it flies off...

:)

David Reaves
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YIKES!!!!!!! :eek:

R
 
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