# Hard-Core Gear Porn Friday!!!

- Site: Analog Industries
- Author: Chris Randall
- Date: 2005-10-14
- URL: https://analogindustries.com/2005/10/hard-core-gear-porn-friday-2/

Yup, it's Friday already, and you know what that means! What follows are 3 photos that are from what I believe is the now-defunct Pacific Coast Productions. Don't quote me on that, and if I'm mistaken, I'll gladly print a correction. Yet another example of some really, really fine synths running through not one, not two, but **three** Mackie boards. (At least the D8B is sorta okay, I guess, in a weird kind of way.) Ranting aside, on with the pr0n...

![Hard-Core Gear Porn Friday!!!](https://analogindustries.com/images/blog/rsstudio1.jpg)

Here's a nice view of the Central Command Area of this gorgeous room. The CS80 and the business end of a Waldorf Wave (don't see those two often) hold pride of place, and you can also see an Andromeda, a Supernova, and a nice fat Obie, among the other usual suspects.

![Hard-Core Gear Porn Friday!!!](https://analogindustries.com/images/blog/rsstudio5.jpg)

Facing the other direction, we see the Waldof Wave in all its glory. To its left we see the Holy Trinity of analog polysynths: Prophet 5, Memorymoog, and the mighty Jupiter 8. There's some other shit there but who really cares with those four in the picture. On Monosynth Row, we see a Minimoog, an ARP 2600, and that rarest of birds, a clear Gleeman Pentaphonic. (Yeah, you're gonna see that at a pawn shop.)

![Hard-Core Gear Porn Friday!!!](https://analogindustries.com/images/blog/rsstudio6.jpg)

Here's another angle on the whole shootin' match. I'm given to understand that most of these synths have found new homes, and that's a good thing, because this is just a little too much for me, knowing these beauties were all sitting in one place.

## Comments (7)

**Tom** (2005-10-14):

Damn, Waldorf Waves are HUGE!

**nutkin** (2005-10-14):

I have often wondered about the best high quality small mixer for sub-mixing keyboards etc on. Do you have any feelings about what might be worthy for this job… One of the smaller Allen and Heath's? Maybe a DIY solution?

Rob

**b.phenix** (2005-10-14):

A used Speck SSM would be a very nice keyboard mixer. Can be found for about $1000 nowadays but they are not super common.

Speck also makes newer line mixers would do the trick nicely depending on your routing needs.

The A&H (16:2, Gl2000, etc) are better than Mackie but only incrementally so.

**neB** (2005-10-14):

WOW...what a wonderous land of happiness...

mmmmm.......

**Chris Randall** (2005-10-14):

I think for the money, I would have said the Midas Venice series, but that Toft console that just came out kind of blew that plan out of the water. The new Speck X-Sum is good for submixing a shitload of keys for not much money. The Trident S100 if you don't have a lot of inputs.

If you'll look at the third photo, you'll see this guy isn't completely off his rocker. There's a TL Audio tube 8-channel board in the very corner of the room, next to the Nord Lead.

But the Speck SSM is simply the best thing going for a mostly electronic studio, as b.phenix pointed out.

-CR

**whiteboysushi** (2005-10-14):

That bastard... he even has good monitors!

**synthetic** (2005-10-14):

I would just settle for a room with that much wood. OK, and the CS-80. The Wave would be nice too... oh just forget it.

He also has (had?) a Bosendorfer Imperial Grand, in case you didn't hate him enough already. And a DX-1, Matrix 12, Prophet VS...