Hard-Core Gear Porn Friday!!!
From the original Analog Industries archive. Some links and images from that era no longer resolve.
Okay, refresh monkeys. Your fix is here. I’m on a roll with the synth-centric HCGP entries. Whack the picture above for the full-size view of the private studio of a certain Mr. Rich. I have no more information than that. I don’t know where this studio is, or the actual name of the person that owns it. He’s a moderator on the Vintage Synth Explorer forums, and he posted a dozen or so images of his studio in this thread.
He has all the heavies: a DX1, an Obie 8-voice, PPG 2.3, Hartman Neuron. In short, these pictures are going to make you insanely jealous. The ubiquitous clear Gleeman Pentaphonic (only like, um, 2300 made, from the frequency of occurance), but the biggest deal for me is that this is the first studio we’ve featured that, to my knowledge, has all three of the Holy Trinity. If you examine the photos, yes, Virginia, you’ll see a Prophet 5, a Memorymoog, and a Jupiter 8. (Plus a bonus Holy keyboard, a Matrix 12!) There’s no single clear shot of the whole room(s) so it’s hard to tell what’s going on. But suffice to say, this would be a fun place to hang out.
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I wonder how hot it gets in that room.
Is this the dude from Mute records?
Daniel Miller? I don't think so.
-CR
Love how he has the Pro 5 leaning against the moog/roland synths- eh, it's just a P5. So far, my favorite gear porn studio yet. Very impressive.
And another link including shots from his outboard http://www.vintagesynth.org/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=9786&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=60 (gotta scroll down a bit...)
I'd give up half of the damn studio and get a decent console if I was in his shoes...
-BMU
If you notice, the last picture in the rack photo series, with the 480L remote, shows the lower left hand bucket of an SSL E frame. I think he's doing okay, console-wise.
-CR
Why on earth would he mix on a Ghost then?!
Maybe that's his "writing room," ala Peter Gabriel. Only PG had a Sony Oxford in his room. Maybe he got an SSL in there, now that he owns the company.
Mr.Rich ... that's prolly Richard D. James' studio.
But what do I know...
Mr.Rich ... that's prolly Richard D. James' studio.
But what do I know...
It is NOT Richard D. James - the truth is not that fascinating really...
The truth is _always_ fascinating! "Mr Rich" is, in actuality, David C. Lovelace - all-around good guy, and progenitor of the famous "Packrat" comics and the infamous "Retarded Animal Babies" flash cartoons...
If I were to guess, Richard D James studio would be more of a mess, more modified and home built stuff, and more like a bedroom from what I have read. But maybe he's changed over the years.
Carbon111: Actually he is NOT David C. Lovelace, David is also a good guy and also lurking around sometimes at VSE, but he has nothing to do with David. As I said - the truth is not that fascinating really.
I was gonna concur on that. I'm of the distinct impression that Mr. Lovelace is a modular dude, and this Mr. Rich fellow leads a more-or-less modular-free existence. My guess is that it is the writing room at a commercial studio. Jingles, perhaps?
-CR
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