oddments...

My old 80-8. 

Not sure what I'm going to do with it, but it is completely renovated (check out the azimuth on the oscilloscope!)...

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And here is a new addition: Jeff Fisher at Rerun Electronics built out (and heavily modded) a quartet of Magnetic Sound preamp/line-drivers to deliver some needed makeup gain for my Studer 089.  They use the same UTC HA100X transformers that the original LA2A's employed, with a 50's DDR circuit design.  Very tasty, and gorgeous to boot.  Thanks Jeff!
 

HDX rig / new Swans double CD / triple vinyl

News from the tubes:  micro-moose-berlin is now fully up to date with an Avid HDX rig, and a 16 x 16 Avid HD IO, which sounds great, noticably better than the Digidesign 192 (which I liked a lot!).  I've just finished up the Swans double CD/triple vinyl "To Be Kind" and it has gone to press in the US and Europe, so look out for it in the next months.  Meanwhile working with lots of Berlin bands (see list) as well as new contacts and old friends in the States.  Just about to dust off my trusty TASCAM 80-8 to work on some lofi tape projects, and still working on a new power supply for a rack of four International Projector Co. micpre/line amps, which feature the legendary UTC HA-100-X transfomers (also used as input TX's in the original LA2A's).  Looking out for one more Altec 8 band passive EQ to turn this into a killer vintage mastering equalizer.