We do all sorts of custom work for our clients. If there’s anything special you need, give us a call and we’ll put together a quote for you.
Custom Cables
We can design and build virtually any kind of custom cable. If you need any kind of analog or digital snake, control cable, power supply cable, summing or splitting cable, let us know you’re requirements and we’ll send you a price quote.
Custom Power Supplies, Switchers, And Other Accessories
We can design and build nearly any kind of power supply or gadget, according to your specs. If you have any kind of project in mind that requires a custom solution, just let us know and we’ll see what we can do for you.
We build and stock these neat little rack mount dual VU meters, because they’re a practical studio accessory, and one else seems to offer one.
Made from repurposed VU meters and electronics, this is a 3.5” high (2 RU) panel with two accurate, high quality Triplett VU meters and stereo buffer electronics. The panel has a short Mogami cable with two female XLR’s. A pair of small trimpots on the buffer board provide level adjustment — it is designed for +4, but there’s about 16 db of range on the trimmers, to accommodate a wide range of levels.
The Triplett VU’s feature accurate, familiar ballistics. If you’re running a digital setup with peak indicators but no mechanical VU’s, adding this VU meter will help you to judge the loudness of your mixes. Also, the high resolution of analog VU meters can really be handy for accurately calibrating input and output levels, and for analog metering of digital plug-ins.
The VU’s were removed from a JH-24 recorder. These are heavy duty, high quality meters — not the cheap lightweight Sifam types often seen these days. The panel is rugged 3/16” aluminum, grained and anodized black (not just painted). The unit is powered by a small 100-240V power adapter. This is a sharp looking unit, and a very practical addition for your home or project studio. For a small extra charge we can provide XLR Y-cables, so you can connect the unit to a pair of outputs that is already in use or patched to another piece of gear.
The SE 16×2 is a high performance, high headroom analog summing mixer that we custom designed and build.
This is a high performance analog summing system, an improvement over digital summing. SE 16×2’s have superb sonics and have been used to mix thousands of songs, television shows and feature films.
We are very proud of the performance and specs that were achieved in this unit. Maximum output level is a whopping +30, so you have 26 dB of headroom, for more than most pro audio gear. Frequency response is +/- 1/2 dB from 5 Hz. to 25 kHz. To keep the unit as quiet as possible we went with an external power supply. Signal/noise ratio is -82, THD is .03%.
The SE 16×2 has 16 differential balanced inputs and 2 transformer balanced outputs. Each of the 16 inputs has a level control, left and right assign (with a 3 db pad when L and are are selected, to avoid center channel build up) and a master stereo level trim. We use Burr Brown OPA2604’s on all the input stages and Hardy 990 opamps for the stereo outputs, followed by Jensen JT-123-BL output transformers. Inputs are connected via two 25-pin D connectors (standard pinout) and the outputs are on male XLR’s.
With the master level full up, each of the input level pots are unity gain with the knobs in the 12 o’clock position. There’s 6 db of cut with the control all the way down, and 6 db of gain when it’s all the way up. The master level control is normally left full up, but by turning it down you can reduce gain by up to 8 db.
The mixer unit has a rugged, custom milled brushed aluminum case with top and bottom covers that slide in and out, for a snug secure fit. Included are the external regulated supply and a power supply cable. The power supply is set to 120 volts, but on request we can change it to 240 for buyers outside North America. Included is a full 6 month warranty.
This is a fantastic sounding analog unit that will beat the pants off of in the box summing. If you’re in Southern California, you’re welcome to come over and demo a unit.