# Hard-Core Gear Porn Friday!!! - Site: Analog Industries - Author: Chris Randall - Date: 2006-05-12 - URL: https://analogindustries.com/2006/05/hard-core-gear-porn-friday-2/ [![Hard-Core Gear Porn Friday!!!](https://analogindustries.com/images/blog/cs_2.jpg)](https://analogindustries.com/images/blog/cs_2.jpg) Okay, I've been shitting out synth-based HCGPF episodes for like two months straight, so it's time for a little something for the pro audio guys, which comprise roughly 9/10th of the AI readership, but for some reason hardly ever complain. (The moral? Synth collectors, of which I am one, are a bunch of whiney little bitches. Trust me. I would know.) In any case, this is a tough HCGPF for me to assemble, because the subject of my tender minstrations this week doesn't appear to have a web page, as far as I can tell. Bucharest, Romania's favorite son Christian Sugar maintains a reasonably steady presence on most of the audio forums I read, but if he has a site, I can't find it. I'm sure AdamJay or someone will immediately inform me that I'm stupid and/or blind, and the website is at http://www.myleftnut.com or something. But until that occurs, we're just left with pictures. But hey, they're worth a thousand words a piece. So here's a few grand for you to chew on in the meantime. (Click each picture for the full-sized.) Pictured up top is an example of Chris' fantastic DIY work, in the form of his Mixbuss project. All of his DIY work is notable for its colorful panels. e.g.: [![Hard-Core Gear Porn Friday!!!](https://analogindustries.com/images/blog/cs_1.jpg)](https://analogindustries.com/images/blog/cs_1.jpg) I have no idea what the hell all that orange shit is. The only things I know for certain are (a) he made it all, and (b) that's a pretty nice chunk of Waldorf in that rack. [![Hard-Core Gear Porn Friday!!!](https://analogindustries.com/images/blog/cs_3.jpg)](https://analogindustries.com/images/blog/cs_3.jpg) The yellow boxes are transient processors, along the lines of SPL's popular box. [Here's a fun thread](http://www.prodigy-pro.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=47341) over at Prodigy-Pro where Chris explains how he makes his racks. That isn't contact paper and magic markers, okay? [This thread](http://www.prodigy-pro.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=13831&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0) has more info on the Mixbuss thingamajig and the transient modellers. Here's a close-up of some of the red/orange ones: [![Hard-Core Gear Porn Friday!!!](https://analogindustries.com/images/blog/c_4.jpg)](https://analogindustries.com/images/blog/c_4.jpg) And, on a less pictographic tack, don't forget it's Friday! Jump around! Jump around! Jump up, jump up and get down! Everybody jump! Jump! Jump! Jump! ## Comments (6) **matrix** (2006-05-12): Damn! I'm tempted to put this one on Matrixsynth anyway, but... I just did the mother of all Waldorf synth porn, so... If only that red thing were a synth... **SynthBaron** (2006-05-12): Must. Have. Little. Yellow. Desktop. Mixer. OMFG. **d wagenbach** (2006-05-13): i'm pretty sure he got the PCBs for the pres and compressors here http://www.gyraf.dk/index.html DIY-projects link on the left side takes you to the good stuff this is a good one, too http://1176neve.tripod.com/ here's a link for a bare bones summer http://www.gearslutz.com/board/showthread.php?t=67680 wouldn't be hard to take that, add the individual level control and meters... **BringMeUp** (2006-05-13): Well, I assume he doesn't have a website. But the following shots should cover pretty much all the "red/orange" stuff... http://www.img.photobucket.com/albums/v292/chrissugar/CMS-LAB-MEQ1/CMS-LAB-MEQ1-FRONT-1.jpg http://www.img.photobucket.com/albums/v292/chrissugar/CMS-LAB-MEQ1/CMS-LAB-MEQ1-BACK-2.jpg http://www.img.photobucket.com/albums/v292/chrissugar/CMS-LAB-MEQ2/DSCF2298-P-R.jpg http://www.img.photobucket.com/albums/v292/chrissugar/CMS-LAB-MEQ2/DSCF2290-P-R.jpg http://www.img.photobucket.com/albums/v292/chrissugar/CMS-LAB-AT1/AT1-FRONT.jpg http://www.img.photobucket.com/albums/v292/chrissugar/CMS-LAB-AT1/AT1-FRONT-DETAIL-2.jpg http://www.img.photobucket.com/albums/v292/chrissugar/CMS-LAB-MBC1/DSCF2125-P-R-X.jpg http://www.img.photobucket.com/albums/v292/chrissugar/CMS-LAB-MBC1/DSCF2279-P-R-X.jpg http://www.img.photobucket.com/albums/v292/chrissugar/CMS-LAB-PEQ1/PEQ1-FRONT-1.jpg http://www.img.photobucket.com/albums/v292/chrissugar/CMS-LAB-PEQ1/PEQ1-FRONT-DETAIL-3.jpg http://www.img.photobucket.com/albums/v292/chrissugar/CMS-LAB-PEQ1/PEQ1-BACK-2.jpg http://www.img.photobucket.com/albums/v292/chrissugar/CMS-LAB-MP4C/DSCF2226-P-R-X.jpg http://www.img.photobucket.com/albums/v292/chrissugar/CMS-LAB-MP4C/DSCF2219-P-R-X.jpg http://www.img.photobucket.com/albums/v292/chrissugar/CMS-LAB-MP4C/DSCF2220-P-R-X.jpg - BMU **7ate9** (2006-05-14): anyone knows where he gets his knobs from? gotta love those old bakelite knobs! reminds me of a fairchild 670 **jnasato** (2006-05-16): He gets his knobs from: http://www.okw.com/