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A very special disco rig.......... |
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 Posted: 20 September 2015 at 2:15pm |
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What a beautiful thing it is!
Can imagine the sound quality of the machine... |
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mini-mad
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Posted: 20 September 2015 at 2:30pm |
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I'll sit and wait for internal pics.....
I do like wen peeps throw up pics of the guts of their hardware. |
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If it sounds like a gorilla is trying to escape, turn it down.
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Posted: 20 September 2015 at 3:34pm |
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Two scanned images from the Capital Fun Book, 1977 - 78Notice the mic arm. Made in-house by Cap Rad engineering dept. Milled from aluminium, a proper work of art. Will try to find it and post close-up images of it. It's hiding in one of the milticore flight-cases.......
Left pic: Mike Allen Right pic: Peter Young  Top: Mike Allen............Middle: Greg Edwards........Bottom: Graeme Dean  Edited by L8 ECU - 20 September 2015 at 3:57pm |
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Posted: 20 September 2015 at 4:48pm |
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Lovely system L8,well done Sir.
Re Froggy,he was using the matamp/Orange rig from around 1971-79,the big ASS rig first appeared late '79 early 1980.
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Be seeing you.
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Posted: 20 September 2015 at 5:14pm |
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Buitifull piece of Vintage machine there,
love to hear that nice and refreshing upload!!
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Musical Roots Reggae Vibration is Life! for music is sound...sound is vibration...vibration is energy... and energy begets life. Therein lies my passion!...MUSIC IS LIFE...
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Posted: 20 September 2015 at 8:21pm |
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Superb! And spot the Martin 'M' in the photo above.
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Posted: 21 September 2015 at 5:18pm |
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OK, just spoken to Jerry Eade (one of the soundmen for MARS back in the day)......
The first amps they used with the Martin rig were Phase Linear. They were soon replaced by Crown DC300A 's (for mids & highs) and BGW's for bottom end. A few years onwards, and they were using Crown PSA 2's...... By that time they were doing outdoor gigs too, like Pickets Lock Centre (north London), and Leatherhead Leisure centre (Funk & Soul alldayers). When you look at amplifier power outputs of that era, the Martin Audio kit HAD to be high sensitivity / horn loaded throughout. Without a doubt Dave Martin was "on the ball".
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Posted: 21 September 2015 at 7:51pm |
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I love this thread.
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Just spotted this thread, as I haven't read this message board for a while...
If I remember rightly, the MARS rig was eventually sold to Capital Entertainments (nothing to do with Capital Radio, and the original partners in Cap Ents eventually divided up the company to form Capital Sound and Encore) and incorporated into their large Martin Modular rig. Later on, at the end of the 1980's, Capital sold off all their Martin Modular kit when they bought the first F2 system. I think it ended up somewhere in Africa. I have a copy of the original IBA CoP somewhere - now that's what's really meant by "Broadcast Spec" . It wasn't long before the broadcasters were lobbying hard to get it watered down... Edited by madboffin - 11 October 2015 at 1:21am |
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Nowadays we know them as "Capital Sound Hire", the Merton / Wimbledon based company run by Keith Davis. I heard the complete MARS Martin rig was sold to a PA company in Italy. This would have been because Capital Sound needed to make room for the RS1200 stock that was to be the new standard in quick rigging flown PA. I may visit or phone Keith during the week find out for sure. Having moved to Somerset, I have not seen or spoken to Keith Davis for over 20 years. Edited by L8 ECU - 08 November 2016 at 5:31pm |
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Posted: 11 October 2015 at 1:49pm |
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Searching google images..........found 2 more pictures of the rig........Early pre flightcase days (Adrian Love)...........and then in the original blue Packhorse cases (Mick Brown):
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