TC Electronic FireworX Radical Studio Effects Processor

The FireworX is the most radical sounding Multi-Effects Processor you've ever heard and a real challenge to your imagination. Take whatever you need from the broad palette of internal effects, drop it into the forge at the heart of the FireworX, and turn your music into a fireball of sound.

Based on cutting edge technology from TC Electronic, the FireworX will let you surf the limits of the possible.

Turn up the heat and get ready to explore the world of digital pyrotechnics. http://www.tcelectronic.com

• Owner's Manual [PDF]
• FireworX MIDI SysEx Specifications
• FireworX Presets

 

Acoustic Research AR-4X Speakers, 1967-1971, made in USA

Link: hifiengine | audio-database

System: 2 ways, 2 speaker acoustic suspension system, and a book shelf type
Use unit:
- For low-pass: 20cm corn type (1 x 8" cone)
- For high regions: 6cm dome shape (1 x 2.5" wide dispersion cone)
Frequency response: 45Hz - 20kHz
Impedance: 8ohms
Allowable input: Suitable for the amplifier beyond 15W
Crossover frequency: 1kHz
Dimensions: Width 255x height 482x depth of 225mm
Weight: 7.5 (8.4) kg

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schematic

 

Skertso - 204 | Скерцо - 204

thnx to re-entrymodule (SPB)


Description: http://www.ruskeys.net
A digital electronic musical instrument Skertso-204 has a 4,5-octave keyboard, a built-in loudspeaker, 8 preset sounds, 8 accomp styles with the tempo change and volume control. It has connections for volume and sustain pedal, fine tuning knob, line and phones output.

Panel parameters:

• Global sounds volume level
• Chords: on/off, accompaniment volume
• Rhythms: Waltz, Swing, Foxtrot, Disco, Tango, Bosanova, Rock, Reggae
• Pause, synchrostart, start, rhythm level, tempo
• Plug connections: phones output, line output, pedal input, volume pedal, pitch tuning knob and phones on/off switching

Farfisa Compact Duo (second version) LEGEND!!!

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Compact Duo http://www.combo-organ.com

The Big Kahuna of the Compact line, the Compact Duo (Mod. "CD /30=COMPACT Duo") has all the features of the Deluxe (second version), plus a whole 'nother keyboard on the bottom!  The lower manual has the two bass octaves of the Deluxe, and a meager selection of three voices (at least they're not all 8', though).  There's actually a bit more than that to be had - you get the cool red lights under the top keyboard, and the later version added Tremolo and Percussion to the arsenal.  Plus, one version of the Duo has a mixture tab not found on any other Compact!

Framus model: 5h3 (4/4) serial mumber: 52732

thnx to mozg79

 

Elektron Monomachine SFX-60+ MKII +Drive

 

Orfeus Hebros semi-acoustic electric guitar

This Orfeus features original graphics on top and back. There was also a bass version of the same guitar with similar body and the same awesome paintjob. http://cheesyguitars.com

 

Ural 650 electric guitar

Keyboard instruments factory in Sverdlovsk produced several types of organs and synthesizers but was mostly famous for it's guitars. Actually, not guitars, but a guitar. After a couple of years of Tonika production the factory's own model was designed. Although called "Ural", it is not the name of the guitar but the name of the brand: all of Sverdlovsk guitars and basses had "electric guitar Ural" inscription on the neckplate. This guitar's real name was Model 650 or 650A. The difference between 650 and 650A models was in tuners' location and several cosmetical details.

It was the most popular and available Soviet guitar. The latest investigations of serial numbers (Lordbizarre) give approximate quantities of 10,000+ 650's per year. The earliest 650's we've seen have 1975 on the potentiometers so we assume the production started around 1975. By the middle of the 80s 150,000+ guitars were made. It was regulary purchased by trade unions and schools, almost every Soviet guitarist played it at some stage. Even today, when there are much more stuff to buy in Russia, 650/Ural still remains the most "popular" beginners guitar. Young guitarists can buy it for less than $100, and it's not such a shame because everybody's playing it.

Ural was a Soviet mass production. It does not nessessarily means it was all machine-made, but all the parts were standard, and people who developed them did not think about the sound and feel of the guitar. You could find a good luthier among those who made these guitars, but there was no personal touch. This is something about the logics of the socialist state. There were no high quality goods. Everything had to be good enough to fit everybody, and there was one level of quality set by the buerau of standards. There could be no small quantities of fine electric guitars, because this could destroy the "equality" among the guitarists as the citizens of the Soviet state. There were huge amounts of low quality guitars for the people. And Ural was probably the best of them.

Ural is a heavy instrument. There's a lot of wood in Russia, and the constructors of Ural were sure that good guitar must not break under any condition. So the neck and the body were made of heavy slabs of wood, the neck radius is very small - it's almost half of a circle, very hard to grip (and to break). Unlike other Soviet guitars Ural has relatively long horns, escpecially the upper, rickenbacker-style horn. The headstock has a distinctive "samurai" shape [let me add here that Yamaha recently released a well designed guitar with the similar "samurai" headstock and pickup configuration similar to other Soviet guitar, Solo II. They claim that these features are innovative, but we know where they came from...

 

Ural 510L bass guitar

While the whole world played Precision and Jazz, Soviet Union had its own bass for everyone. It was Ural. Ural was produced in huge quantities and was actually the most common bass in USSR. You can still find one for the price under $100 if you'll go to Russia. There was also a guitar - Ural, which was even more popular. Urals were heavy, they had small neck radius, high action and they had a very bad sound. But they were unbreakable. You could drop it, you might want to smash it against the wall - nothing would ever happen to this guitar.

Ural guitars and basses were made at Ural plant at Sverdlovsk, Russian Federation. The bass was named "model 510L" while guitar was named "model 650". Body shape - single cut, LP type (not like the guitar). Pickups were made at the same plant. The bass had two single coils with white plastic covers. Controls: volume, tone1 - high frequencies, tone2 - low frequencies. There's also a small panel with three buttons. These buttons responcible for switching pickups on and off plus some tone variations. The bolt-on neck is not wide but its radius is very small. "Ural" logo is printed on the headstock, there's also a triangle string tree plate. The headstock is almost parallel to the neck. Tuning machines are just like on all the Soviet basses. http://cheesyguitars.com

 

Tape delay, unknown manufacturer and model. Supposedly made in Poland

Tape delay, unknown manufacturer and model. Supposedly made in Poland.
Bought on eBay in April of 2014, seller resided in Lodz, Poland.

Research on the internet have returned nothing about manufacturer. On the front plate it's printed "eMs" in bold, black letters and further to the right, "fix" in yellow cursive script followed by the symbol "®".
Also there's no indication of country of manufacture other than the sellers claim it's Poland and the fact that most of the internal components are known brands from Poland. Identified components are:
- Power transformer: ZATRA
- Motor: TONSIL (model: SAZ-05A)
- Capacitors: ELWA (Poland), MIFLEX (Poland), DUCATI (Italy), FECON (???)

Basically I'd like to get whatever info anyone has got on this unit, but mainly I'm interested in:
- A confirmation that it actually is polish,
- Any info on the manufacturer.
- Approximate time of manufacture.
- Schematics would be interesting, but my hopes are low here.

Any info can be sent to dusa@akultur.org

Studer Revox Forum B mk1 3-Weg HiFi-Box, 1983, made in Germany

Link: hifi-wiki | radiomuseum

Generally

• Manufacturer: Revox
• Model: B Forum
• Made in: Germany
• Color: real wood veneer walnut, dark stained
• Dimensions: 320 x 510 x 325 mm (WxHxD)
• Weight: 14.7 kg
• Selling Price in Germany: 1600 DM/1983

Specifications

• Type: 3-way
  • Woofer: 260 mm
  • Midrange: 38 mm (dome)
  • Tweeter: 19 mm (dome)
• Load (Nenn-/Musikb.) : 90/120 W
• empfolene amplifier power: 20-100 watts (RMS per channel)
• Distortion: 0.5%
• Transition regions: 33-24000 Hz
• Crossover frequencies: 820/2600 Hz
• Level controls Mid Level at 1kHz: 14/18 dB / oct.
• Level controls High level at 10 kHz: 24/28 dB / oct.
• Overload Protection: Overload protection of the tweeter by fuse
• Connection: slide clamps
• Impedance: 4 Ohm

Behringer V-VERB PRO REV2496

 

Korg Electribe ESX1SD Production Sampler

 

Korg Electribe EMX1SD Music Production Station

 

JBL 4406 Monitor Studio, 1986-98,

 

Link: Owner's Manual [PDF] | audio-heritage

\ 63,000 (1 unit, released in 1986)
\ 56,000 (1 unit, around 1998)

New 44 series small speaker system developed as the next generation monitor series.

The 17 cm cone type Woofer is carried in low-pass.
A special polypropylene cone is adopted as a diaphragm, and low distortion is aimed at by laminating a high polymer composite material on a pulp base. Moreover, by using the SFG magnetic circuit for the magnetic circuit, smooth energy response and improvement of the input resistance are realized.

Dome type tweeter is carried in the high region.
Pure titanium is used for the diaphragm of this unit, and it is molded into a dome of 25 micron thickness with original technology and it is carried. In addition, by combining a diamond edge pattern and a reinforcing rib that gave a hint to Japan's origami workmanship, we have acquired superior characteristics up to 27 kHz ultra high region without sacrificing efficiency.

Bass-reflex system is adopted for enclosure.

method 2 way · 2 speaker · bass-reflex system · book shelf type
Used unit For low-pass: 17 cm cone type / For high region: dome shape
Frequency characteristic 55 Hz to 20 kHz
Impedance 8 Ω
Output sound pressure level 87 dB / W / m
Permissible input 75 W (continuous program)
Crossover frequency 3 kHz
External dimensions Width 245 × height 390 × depth 227 mm
weight 7.7 kg