Kevin Kelly wrote:
Yes, the pickup input is for a phono pickup. What model is it? BRBR

Model 219 Cutter Amp is all it says. It's 4u high, with a really cool backlit
horse with wings in the center below the meter. In addition to the 600 Ohm Line
output, there's a monitor amp with a speaker output as well. A gazillion tubes
and lbs.

Okay, that's for the small Fairchild broadcast lathes. Not studio grade
gear, but a lot better than the Presto junk that most stations bought. There
is some documentation on them around here somewhere and I am pretty sure I
have schematics.

Look and see if you can get the turntable and cutter that came with that.
The turntable was probably the first electronically-controlled table around.
No servo, but it had a synchronous motor driven by a pair of 6L6 tubes for
very precise speed control.
--scott
--
"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."

For your price range, a BSS AR-133 is clean and nice. Pretty
transparent, so if you want color you'll have to get it from the pre,
comp., etc. I like mine and use it all the time. Think it was about
$120. Never used it on slap bass though.

For your price range, a BSS AR-133 is clean and nice. Pretty
transparent, so if you want color you'll have to get it from the pre,
comp., etc. I like mine and use it all the time. Think it was about
$120. Never used it on slap bass though.

Scott Dorsey wrote:
Kevin Kelly wrote:
Yes, the pickup input is for a phono pickup. What model is it?
BRBR

Model 219 Cutter Amp is all it says. It's 4u high, with a really
cool backlit horse with wings in the center below the meter. In
addition to the 600 Ohm Line output, there's a monitor amp with a
speaker output as well. A gazillion tubes and lbs.

Okay, that's for the small Fairchild broadcast lathes. Not studio
grade gear, but a lot better than the Presto junk that most stations
bought. There is some documentation on them around here somewhere
and I am pretty sure I have schematics.


Hey ! If you are using a cutting lathe amp as a bass DI, then why not just
couple a speaker cone to the cutting head and have a whole amp combo at the
same time !

geoff

Scott Dorsey wrote:
Kevin Kelly wrote:
Yes, the pickup input is for a phono pickup. What model is it?
BRBR

Model 219 Cutter Amp is all it says. It's 4u high, with a really
cool backlit horse with wings in the center below the meter. In
addition to the 600 Ohm Line output, there's a monitor amp with a
speaker output as well. A gazillion tubes and lbs.

Okay, that's for the small Fairchild broadcast lathes. Not studio
grade gear, but a lot better than the Presto junk that most stations
bought. There is some documentation on them around here somewhere
and I am pretty sure I have schematics.


Hey ! If you are using a cutting lathe amp as a bass DI, then why not just
couple a speaker cone to the cutting head and have a whole amp combo at the
same time !

geoff

EganMedia wrote:
I always thought Manley could sell more Voxboxes if they slapped "Bassbox" on
some of them and marketed tham as the world's best bass DI. They're amazing.

It's also great for certain guitar sounds.

My favorite bass DI so far is the DI output of a Trace Elliot
head (I think it's just a transformer). I have also used Avalon 737sp
and a Radial passive DI (JD6 I think) with great success. Unlike
most people, I'm not a fan of the Countryman Type 85,
though it's useful when it's the only thing you've got...

Timo

EganMedia wrote:
I always thought Manley could sell more Voxboxes if they slapped "Bassbox" on
some of them and marketed tham as the world's best bass DI. They're amazing.

It's also great for certain guitar sounds.

My favorite bass DI so far is the DI output of a Trace Elliot
head (I think it's just a transformer). I have also used Avalon 737sp
and a Radial passive DI (JD6 I think) with great success. Unlike
most people, I'm not a fan of the Countryman Type 85,
though it's useful when it's the only thing you've got...

Timo

Okay, that's for the small Fairchild broadcast lathes. Not studio grade
gear, but a lot better than the Presto junk that most stations bought. There
is some documentation on them around here somewhere and I am pretty sure I
have schematics.

That's very exciting. I would be more than willing to compensate you for
finding and copying them. I bought it from a HiFi dealer who routinely rebuilds
old tube amps and resells them. I traded him a Dyna Stereo 70 w/o tubes for it,
because I was really excited to hear the mic preamp in it.
He had already recapped and retubed the poweramp section, and modified the
pickup input to accept unbalanced line level. As I mentioned in an earlier
post, it sounds rich and clean (not muddy) when I plug a passive P-bass into
it.
My original interest was the balanced mic preamp. However, it sounds really
thin. I wonder if those caps need replacement or if that was intentional given
the otiginal purpose.

Look and see if you can get the turntable and cutter that came with that.
The turntable was probably the first electronically-controlled table around.
No servo, but it had a synchronous motor driven by a pair of 6L6 tubes for
very precise speed control. BRBR

I have owned this Fairchild thing for 8-10 years. Got it around the same time I
started listening to V72a's and Altec 1567's as "color" pres - hoping for a
cheap Irishman's delight - great sound/small cash outlay.
I asked the guy I bought it from where the rest of the rig went and he had no
idea.

Kevin M. Kelly
"There needs to be a 12-step program for us gearheads"

Okay, that's for the small Fairchild broadcast lathes. Not studio grade
gear, but a lot better than the Presto junk that most stations bought. There
is some documentation on them around here somewhere and I am pretty sure I
have schematics.

That's very exciting. I would be more than willing to compensate you for
finding and copying them. I bought it from a HiFi dealer who routinely rebuilds
old tube amps and resells them. I traded him a Dyna Stereo 70 w/o tubes for it,
because I was really excited to hear the mic preamp in it.
He had already recapped and retubed the poweramp section, and modified the
pickup input to accept unbalanced line level. As I mentioned in an earlier
post, it sounds rich and clean (not muddy) when I plug a passive P-bass into
it.
My original interest was the balanced mic preamp. However, it sounds really
thin. I wonder if those caps need replacement or if that was intentional given
the otiginal purpose.

Look and see if you can get the turntable and cutter that came with that.
The turntable was probably the first electronically-controlled table around.
No servo, but it had a synchronous motor driven by a pair of 6L6 tubes for
very precise speed control. BRBR

I have owned this Fairchild thing for 8-10 years. Got it around the same time I
started listening to V72a's and Altec 1567's as "color" pres - hoping for a
cheap Irishman's delight - great sound/small cash outlay.
I asked the guy I bought it from where the rest of the rig went and he had no
idea.

Kevin M. Kelly
"There needs to be a 12-step program for us gearheads"

Hey ! If you are using a cutting lathe amp as a bass DI, then why not just
couple a speaker cone to the cutting head and have a whole amp combo at the
same time !

geoff
BRBR

The funny part is there is a monitor power amp with a speaker level output
included in the unit with resonable enough gain to drive a Fender 2x12 Bassman
bottom.
Kevin M. Kelly
"There needs to be a 12-step program for us gearheads"

Hey ! If you are using a cutting lathe amp as a bass DI, then why not just
couple a speaker cone to the cutting head and have a whole amp combo at the
same time !

geoff
BRBR

The funny part is there is a monitor power amp with a speaker level output
included in the unit with resonable enough gain to drive a Fender 2x12 Bassman
bottom.
Kevin M. Kelly
"There needs to be a 12-step program for us gearheads"