Big Flippers - Studio Tour and Buying an abused 1990's Mixing board to flip.

In this first episode of "Big Flippers", I purchase a semi-working 1995 AMEK Big 28 digitally-controlled analog console. We also get a tour of the seller's studio, BRM Sound. Ben McLeod is the studio owner and also the guitarist for the band, All Them Witches... https://www.allthemwitches.org/

I owned a Big 28 a few years back and managed to destroy it while trying to retrofit it with features it never had before. I learned a ton through my mistakes. I then bought a Big 44, an even bigger desk and it unfortunately died because of my stupidity. I should have never tried swapping CPU cards with my dead 28 thinking I repaired it. Different revision to begin with, but it killed the 44, the automation computer, and the power supply in one single strike. It took me months to sort it all out. Now the 44 is back better than ever and I'm a lot smarter as a result. But with 2 desks and only one working, I was left with a metric crap ton of spare parts. I thought the best thing to do would be to find another Big 28 in need of repair that I could buy cheap and fix up with my spare parts. I happened to find the perfect candidate on Reverb.com. I flew over 1000 miles to Florida on a mini "vacation" with my wife. We rented an SUV to pick up the Big 28 and drive it back to NY.

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Learn more about the AMEK Big by Langley at https://www.muzines.co.uk/articles/th...

Backing music courtesy of the Buffalo, NY-based band, Garden Party. Check out https://gracelougen.com/ for more. Music recorded and mixed on an AMEK Big 44 at LBA Studios by Mike Congilosi II.

Check out BRM Sound on instagram @brmsound. Recording the Masters (RTM) tape rules.

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