Derek H Posted October 18, 2016 Report Share Posted October 18, 2016 Is that a set of acoustic research speakers it's sitting on? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff Wexler Posted October 18, 2016 Author Report Share Posted October 18, 2016 Yes. Bruce was a big fan of ARs. In one room he had basically a whole wall of AR speakers which of course required enormous power to get any kind of performance. In those days, Bruce was using a whole bank of Phase Linear amplifiers. I will add that Bruce used to tweak everything --- I wouldn't be surprised if he had made modifications, parts substitutions and such, for the amplifiers and even the speakers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Philip Perkins Posted October 18, 2016 Report Share Posted October 18, 2016 A set of those, gotten at an estate sale that also yielded a Magnetone tape deck, were my studio monitors in the late 1970's. OK, I guess, better than what I had before! When the tweeters went I could not find replacements , so out they went. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sprotnik Posted October 18, 2016 Report Share Posted October 18, 2016 thanks for the info. i had no idea about the opaque resin... what a thing! there´s some issues then... electronic components, faders aging poorly, the opaque resin... most of the info I have read in the web is about the high quality of the mic´s pres, and I am tempted to try it cause the offer is a bargain. I have seen that there´s a guy (or team) in switzerland that still service stella´s devices (http://www.audioprojpg.com) but I guess that puting a hand on AMI will cost like a house in the shore... i´ll try to have a chance to check the unit, and then decide any coments and info are welcom regards Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MBM Posted July 21, 2017 Report Share Posted July 21, 2017 Hi Sprotnik, Just walked in this thread and saw that you have questions about a STELLAVOX AMI48 mixer. If you are still interested, I guess I can help you. I own the mixer and the reel to reel recorder SP8 and had to repair everything by myself. Believe me, the maschines look good outside, but inside its a mess and a nightmare. The current Stellavox people are completly arrogant and not helpful. Instead of being happy that people out there who still keep this things running, they want to hide informmation and try to squezze out money as much as possible for everything. For this reason I have re-drawed a couple of this modules from the mixer and tape recorder. The module for the mic-amplifier in the mixer is called SPA+SOA. SPA+SOA stands for StellavoxPreAmplifier + StellavoxOutputAmplifier I had opened the defect module and re-draw the schematics in it, including pictures and all components. So if you interested, I can post it to you. MBM Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Evan V Posted October 10, 2023 Report Share Posted October 10, 2023 Hey Jeff, what an incredibly cool piece of kit. Did you ever sell it? Cheers! Evan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff Wexler Posted October 10, 2023 Author Report Share Posted October 10, 2023 Evan, not sure which piece of kit you are referring to, but thank you for directing me back to this interesting topic started quite some time ago. Primarily to show Bruce Bisenz's custom home made mixer and then moved into a discussion of Stellavox gear. I did get to see Bruce's mixer up close and personal as I had Bruce fill in for me on a few movies where I had to leave early. Never owned a Stellavox recorder or mixer but did have some working experience with both. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Philip Perkins Posted October 10, 2023 Report Share Posted October 10, 2023 Bruce B's custom mixer was lovingly made from the best parts and modules available back then, put together by someone with a very deep understanding of how dialog needed to be recorded given how movies were being made at the time. The Stella AMI was not a good mixer--pretty to look at, great size, not great sound, fragile and impossible to field service. There was one floating from recordist to recordist in my town for several years: people would buy it, try to use it and then give up when they listened closely to it or it broke (again). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tourtelot Posted October 10, 2023 Report Share Posted October 10, 2023 Never got a chance to turn the knobs on one of these, but . . . . D. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Philip Perkins Posted October 11, 2023 Report Share Posted October 11, 2023 49 minutes ago, tourtelot said: Never got a chance to turn the knobs on one of these, but . . . . D. I did! Loved the sound! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tourtelot Posted October 11, 2023 Report Share Posted October 11, 2023 Just for the record, I meant the Sela. The 4.2 got turned for a lot of years with a PSC M4 mixer. D. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Philip Perkins Posted October 11, 2023 Report Share Posted October 11, 2023 20 minutes ago, tourtelot said: Just for the record, I meant the Sela. The 4.2 got turned for a lot of years with a PSC M4 mixer. D. Me too! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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