Thanks for the kind words, Eric! I'm glad it all worked out.
For my part, I have to say I was very impressed with how calm Eric
was about his console being down for a few days.
Best regards,
Ike
On 2/22/2010 11:16 AM, Eric Rachel wrote:
Analog console users, The past week was quite a whirlwind adventure
for me ( Trax East ) and Ike Zimbel ( Zimbel Audio ). A week ago the
right channel on the mix buss of our Elite II went down ( or so we
thought ). After a day of searching and probing with no success I
called Ike at ZAP. I had been in touch with him over the past year
and was on his waiting list for his mix buss balancing modification.
I thought since we needed to have the master channel repaired we
should take advantage of the down time and have the monitor and
master channel modified. After talking we both thought this would be
a great idea and then sent the channels overnight so he could get to
work a.s.a.p. A few day's later Ike called and said he'd finished the
modifications on both channels along with the balancing card for the
mix buss but didn't see any ' smoking gun' that would cause the right
channel to go down so the problem must be in the console somewhere.
S**t, still need to find the problem. Ike tells me to call him when I
get the channels and he'll help trace the problem. Get the channels
next day, install the balancing card ( very easy ) call Ike and with
his help proceeded to track down the problem. We're on and off the
phone all day with Ike telling me what connections to trace so we
could pinpoint where the short circuit is originating from. After a
few unsuccessful hours he asks if anyone has disconnected any
outboard gear, tape decks etc. I look around and see our old stack of
cassette decks that are still patched into the console and notice
that the top deck , there are 4 of them, was moved. I pull the decks
out and sure enough someone had taken the top deck out and never
connected the RCA input jacks back in when the deck was put back.
Over time somehow the tip of one cable fell onto the ground of the
other which caused a short on the unbalanced mix output from the
console. I reconnected the RCAs and wow left and right! What a
wonderful thing. A sure case of looking for the simplest solution first.
Ok, nice story. We've all been there one way or another. I can't say
enough about the modifications Ike did on the master and monitor
channels. The console sounded good on it's own but the top end just
opened up and the bottom just got bigger. The balanced mix buss
send/receive is a godsend. No loss of level. But I'd like to say that
it was Ike's personal involvement, dedication to clients and support
that made this happen.
Eric Rachel
Trax East Studios
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