= Show us your control tower! =
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Topic: = Show us your control tower! =
Posted By: mikey bear
Subject: = Show us your control tower! =
Date Posted: 29 May 2009 at 12:14am
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I dont know about you lot but i'd really like to see what equipment other sounds use to nice up the dance. Whether it be preamp or separate rack units or whatever. Be nice to see what amps and sound effects are used also. So if you don't think this will be a breach of the "official secrets act"  post up some pic of your set...here's a pic of Billso's set, sound called high grade rockers.  i'll post my own up in due course. peace and love  |
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Posted By: tweeter box
Date Posted: 29 May 2009 at 9:06am
oooooohh love that Ashly  ------------- PRECISION SOUND SYSTEM. Feeding the peoples needs for Roots Music. Strictly premium grade reggae and dub steppers from the early 70's to present day. |
Posted By: indicadubs
Date Posted: 30 May 2009 at 12:12am
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^^^^
indica sound system control tower.
i got alot more tings but this is the main ting
 looking forward to seeing other controls!
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Posted By: Saul
Date Posted: 30 May 2009 at 12:35am
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eyyy moooon, it's ITROL towaaa, not control tower. chuckle
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Posted By: gwarntek
Date Posted: 30 May 2009 at 12:50am
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idren create a ital sound to contraaaaalll di airwaves  sorry it was bound to happen at some point...
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Posted By: jahpanese
Date Posted: 30 May 2009 at 2:23am
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Hi everyone. I'm Jah Revelatin Outernational in japan. This control tower at my shop. When I have session I put a siren box and sound effects.  |
Posted By: space-face
Date Posted: 30 May 2009 at 2:36am
| mmm that big aluminium thing looks nice! What to all the knobs do!? |
Posted By: Dub Defector
Date Posted: 24 June 2009 at 7:55pm
Our Itroll Towaa! Bless ------------- Rough Every Time... http://www.dubselector.co.uk - http://www.dubselector.co.uk |
Posted By: mikey bear
Date Posted: 24 June 2009 at 9:18pm
| whats the unit below the preamp and what siren do you have? |
Posted By: mikey bear
Date Posted: 24 June 2009 at 9:34pm
here's mine... |
Posted By: Dub Defector
Date Posted: 25 June 2009 at 10:35am
Unit bellow the pre is a Zoom multi fx unit.. not that good really, but cheap as chips and does a basic job OK. The Siren was made for me by Russ Disciple back in the mid 90s sometime.. NJD type thing.. you know the score  ------------- Rough Every Time... http://www.dubselector.co.uk - http://www.dubselector.co.uk |
mikey bear wrote:Posted By: magixx
Date Posted: 29 June 2009 at 3:36pm
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Hey take a look at my custom pre-amp that I just got built by Jah Tubbys. Just got it completed! Will take pics of it in the rack when it arrives in bermuda.
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Posted By: Tekasis
Date Posted: 29 June 2009 at 3:40pm
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Now that's different!
Fancy sticking it over here magixx... http://www.speakerplans.com/FORUM/show-us-your-pre-amp_topic9784_page12.html - http://www.speakerplans.com/FORUM/show-us-your-pre-amp_topic9784_page12.html
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Posted By: Dub Defector
Date Posted: 29 June 2009 at 7:45pm
Looking damn fine! Is that mainly a cosmetic custom job or are there some other features not present on the standard 4-way? ------------- Rough Every Time... http://www.dubselector.co.uk - http://www.dubselector.co.uk |
Posted By: tweeter box
Date Posted: 30 June 2009 at 9:31am
dats lookin wicked! ------------- PRECISION SOUND SYSTEM. Feeding the peoples needs for Roots Music. Strictly premium grade reggae and dub steppers from the early 70's to present day. |
Posted By: tweeter box
Date Posted: 30 June 2009 at 9:32am
 ------------- PRECISION SOUND SYSTEM. Feeding the peoples needs for Roots Music. Strictly premium grade reggae and dub steppers from the early 70's to present day. |
Posted By: SUFFERER
Date Posted: 27 August 2009 at 3:54pm
| Tweet whats the unit under neath ur pre amp? obviously delay unit but model? |
Posted By: russ d
Date Posted: 27 August 2009 at 7:55pm
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its a boss dm100... its sort of like the half rack rdd10/20.... but has a hold button on the delay, cant remember if it could also do lower delay tempo`s than the rdd`s... still, i never thought the dm100 had the same kind of sound as the rdd`s, it did`nt seem to feedback with the same edge, like it was a bit too clean... but otherwise it does its job.
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Posted By: mikey bear
Date Posted: 27 August 2009 at 7:59pm
| it looks like a de200 to me |
Posted By: russ d
Date Posted: 27 August 2009 at 10:17pm
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yer right, getting me numbers confused !
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Posted By: DC
Date Posted: 28 August 2009 at 8:54am
| Thats what happens when you get to a certain age Russ... |
Posted By: Humble Tafari
Date Posted: 04 September 2009 at 6:58pm
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Hail up Magixx,
Glad you finally got the Preamp sorted out. Tubbs was telling me he did one for you.
would love to see it when i back in Bermi in November to do a dance there.
I know Ras Arch is getting one modified also for his Judgement sound system
Keep up the works.
------------- Liberate the minds of men, and you will ultimately liberate the bodies of men - Marcus Mosiah Garvey |
Posted By: Humble Tafari
Date Posted: 04 September 2009 at 7:09pm
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Hail again Majic,
My only thing with the knobs (as my backup preamp has those knobs) is that when you playing in a packed dance and your fingers get a bit sweaty, they can slip when you want to roll the bass or quickly turn one of the controls.
So what i did was swpped out some of the most used knobs to the ridged knobs to give me a consistant grip with less slip when i am in full swing in the session.
Just based on my experience.
But looking good still.
Respeks
------------- Liberate the minds of men, and you will ultimately liberate the bodies of men - Marcus Mosiah Garvey |
Posted By: Humble Tafari
Date Posted: 04 September 2009 at 7:42pm
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Modified 4 -way tubs Pre
(Modified Para on mid bass - variable mid- mid/high loudness control - only one Mic input with additional eq added for the Mic stage instead of the generic bass/high knobs.)
 Same preamp in Rack inside studio (humble jnr's new toy)
 Backup Preamp (3-way converted to 4-way with extra mid bass parametric, and variable mid loudness control
 ------------- Liberate the minds of men, and you will ultimately liberate the bodies of men - Marcus Mosiah Garvey |
Posted By: ras mystic
Date Posted: 15 September 2009 at 2:05pm
------------- hold tight all roots warriors |
Posted By: RiddimKid
Date Posted: 15 September 2009 at 10:29pm
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Very nice, what amps are they????
Bless
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Posted By: mikey bear
Date Posted: 15 September 2009 at 10:43pm
| any chance of a better pic? it looks like they say JTS but can't be sure |
Posted By: ras mystic
Date Posted: 15 September 2009 at 11:01pm
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the amps are jah tubbys custom built ------------- hold tight all roots warriors |
Posted By: ras mystic
Date Posted: 15 September 2009 at 11:03pm
heres a slightly better picture trying to find some more ------------- hold tight all roots warriors |
Posted By: Tekasis
Date Posted: 20 September 2009 at 10:53pm
------------- **Heavy Weight-Line** A home without books is like a body with no soul. |
Posted By: SUFFERER
Date Posted: 21 September 2009 at 9:55am
| Ras mystic what are the silver 1u units? |
Posted By: DC
Date Posted: 21 September 2009 at 12:11pm
| TC electronic FX processors |
Posted By: Father-Francis
Date Posted: 10 November 2009 at 8:11pm
------------- Music is the strongest form of magic.(+45 31879997)blakmanpro@gmail.com, foa@sweetboxaudio.dk |
Posted By: magixx
Date Posted: 08 January 2010 at 5:08am
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Blessed Humble Tafari! Just getting back to this forum, as you may have heard, alot of war going on in Bermuda so taking my own sweet time with building the new set and wait till things cool down... yes I went with the metal knobs for a better feel....I cant wait to hear how it sounds whn all done... I have the amp rack finished and also the top-ends (MT121's) waiting on the midbass and bass cabs from England. here's a few pics so far, Probably missed your last visit to Bermy, but love to organize a rootikal dance......  tops  |
Posted By: Humble Tafari
Date Posted: 08 January 2010 at 10:45pm
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Hail Magixx, Yes iyah, keep up the works. You in the right direction. Email me when you ready and we can work on next dance bredda. humble@wildfiyah.com Respect and Honours
------------- Liberate the minds of men, and you will ultimately liberate the bodies of men - Marcus Mosiah Garvey |
Posted By: stereo
Date Posted: 16 January 2010 at 10:32am
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Posted By: backlash
Date Posted: 16 January 2010 at 12:36pm
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Posted By: tweeter box
Date Posted: 16 January 2010 at 1:11pm
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Posted By: mk2_ginger_biscuit69
Date Posted: 16 January 2010 at 7:55pm
Looking at the eq, its set for hi-mid-bass xover, and the berry EQ has hi and lopass filters, but the top ends around +12db 10khz-20khz, the mids are right up to 10khz with a nasty 10khz'ish boost so will have a REALLY beaming response, bottom of mids is cutoff at around 1.2khz, with bass only coming in at -6db around 50hz. Thats 2 octaves of upper bass missing, all the kick frequencys, with the scoops getting +12db of 20hz fed from the bass EQ. Surely that cant be right!?
 ''heavy weight bassline'' signature is certainly true when there is no upper mid.
Nice rack tho, where did you get it? ------------- ''Remember that the object of a subwoofer is to enhance the output of your main speakers, not overpower it'' ''Dubstep - an elongated electronic fart'' |
Posted By: Shamrock
Date Posted: 16 January 2010 at 10:27pm
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As I'm quite new in this my question might come by as stupid, but I'll try anyway :) Why do some of you use double set of equalizers? Also, why do you have mixerboard/dj-mixer when you have a preamp? After getting preamp, amps, a reverb, what would be the next piece to invest in? Bless |
Posted By: mikey bear
Date Posted: 16 January 2010 at 10:53pm
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there is a lot of stuff going on in that photo. i'm certainly confused. personally if i used a board after a preamp/dj mixer it would be for mic's/instruments/sound fx. can't comment on the eq's. "what would be the next piece to invest in?" ...one of those nice circuit bent dub sirens that keep cropping up on ebay. (assuming you already have speakers  ) |
Posted By: stereo
Date Posted: 17 January 2010 at 10:31pm
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yes Tweeter,custom Mostec,mines the prototype
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Posted By: Humble Tafari
Date Posted: 17 January 2010 at 11:38pm
I think its an excellent question. Some folks feel that they can squeeze the right tone they want out of a speaker driver by adding a touch of eq which may not really be profound on one of the customised preamps (eg Tubbys, Mostecs). So they would get an eq to compensate for this. The trick is to control this second eq with a bit of finesse, so as to not overcompensate and possibly damaging and/or distorting the driver that is sensitive to that frequency. And then there are some that buy them just to add more pretty lights to their control tower. A mixing board is good if you want to have another sound run off your sound system via their own Layer one equipment (eg decks, cd player, mixer) you can run the output of their dj mixer directly into line input of your preamp, or via a mixing board which is connected to your preamp. I did it a few times via the mixing board setup where my sound was hired out to play this sound clash bashment dance. i had a 16- track mackie mixer going into the preamp. and then had the mixer of one sound on one channel of the mackie and mixer of the other sound on next channel. After some sound checks tweaking due to them using different model mixers, it all came out good at the end. Once you get layer one and twos, then your work on your speakers. you can either have the cabinets built to your specs, or buy ready made cabinets and just put in your speaker driver of choice. respeks ------------- Liberate the minds of men, and you will ultimately liberate the bodies of men - Marcus Mosiah Garvey |
Posted By: tweeter box
Date Posted: 18 January 2010 at 9:36am
yeah good unit that, i had the same one  ------------- PRECISION SOUND SYSTEM. Feeding the peoples needs for Roots Music. Strictly premium grade reggae and dub steppers from the early 70's to present day. |
Posted By: Dub Defector
Date Posted: 31 January 2010 at 10:58pm
Sorry about the delay, did Pm you but not sure if you got it. We are based in / around Totnes area of Devon. Will link you if we play up your way. ------------- Rough Every Time... http://www.dubselector.co.uk - http://www.dubselector.co.uk |
Posted By: Joseph Redhemption
Date Posted: 02 February 2010 at 12:39am
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Posted By: Sheggy
Date Posted: 02 February 2010 at 8:15am
 This has just made me very happy
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Posted By: Bjørn Dub
Date Posted: 02 February 2010 at 8:51am
Thats not a preamp thats ME being concerned about peoples health ------------- 1850 FRB C. (; |
Posted By: bitzo
Date Posted: 02 February 2010 at 9:36am
whoa...space echo, big vintage stuff... btw Joseph a private message for you ------------- http://www.unitedroots.it - United Roots SoundSystem site |
Posted By: TRE4U2NV
Date Posted: 02 February 2010 at 1:00pm
nice looking pre is this one of your own builds  ------------- IM SO SECRETIVE BUT I CANT TELL YOU WHY |
Posted By: joseph
Date Posted: 02 February 2010 at 2:42pm
yesssssssss!! beautiful preamp Jo... btw , very happy to see my garrard is still running ... take good care of it  !!Lion Youth rulessssssss!!
ps ... Jo , i will come back to yu soon bro.
respects
weeda
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Posted By: Nick Sasquash
Date Posted: 04 February 2010 at 9:53am
Operation Sound system control tower from dance at the weekend in Bournemouth, (pics of our stacks from the dance can be seen here: http://forum.speakerplans.com/operatiOn-sound-ragga-twins-bournemouth-30thjan_topic33832_page1.html ------------- https://operationsoundsystemrecords.bandcamp.com/ https://www.facebook.com/OperationSoundSystem/ |
Posted By: PauliePaul
Date Posted: 04 February 2010 at 10:32am
Old pics.....
 KT DN360 + Drawmers.....
 Shure radio, Lexicon, KT EQ, Sony DAT, Denon CD, Eventide H3000
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Posted By: tweeter box
Date Posted: 04 February 2010 at 7:30pm
how u reachin that turntable? ------------- PRECISION SOUND SYSTEM. Feeding the peoples needs for Roots Music. Strictly premium grade reggae and dub steppers from the early 70's to present day. |
Posted By: Nitz V1505
Date Posted: 06 February 2010 at 4:12am
------------- LET THE BASS ROLL LIKE THUNDER & THE TOPS LIKE LIGHTNING..... |
Posted By: Father-Francis
Date Posted: 06 February 2010 at 11:20am
 ------------- Music is the strongest form of magic.(+45 31879997)blakmanpro@gmail.com, foa@sweetboxaudio.dk |
Posted By: Nick Sasquash
Date Posted: 06 February 2010 at 12:26pm
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Yes Nitz... Mostec custom mini pre :-) ------------- https://operationsoundsystemrecords.bandcamp.com/ https://www.facebook.com/OperationSoundSystem/ |
Posted By: Bjørn Dub
Date Posted: 06 February 2010 at 12:39pm
Im on my knees.. ------------- 1850 FRB C. (; |
Posted By: dan i dubdub
Date Posted: 06 February 2010 at 3:02pm
| Nick, looks like everything is turned up to 11 for the Bournemouth dance! |
Posted By: tallmike
Date Posted: 06 February 2010 at 3:22pm
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Posted By: Saul
Date Posted: 06 February 2010 at 3:25pm
was probably controlling them from the unit above.
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Posted By: Nick Sasquash
Date Posted: 06 February 2010 at 5:17pm
I always run all my amps with gains up full & adjust the input as needed. If you check the signal leds on the crown VZ's & other amps they are only just ticking over  ------------- https://operationsoundsystemrecords.bandcamp.com/ https://www.facebook.com/OperationSoundSystem/ |
Posted By: Nitz V1505
Date Posted: 12 February 2010 at 9:03pm
Ive done a similar thing by packing the end of the arm with a weight cos I aint using a gc8 needle which wears out the precious vinyl. I use a regular ortofon om needle.Sounds heavy. Also big up the roland space echo!!!! ------------- LET THE BASS ROLL LIKE THUNDER & THE TOPS LIKE LIGHTNING..... |
Posted By: Joseph Redhemption
Date Posted: 13 February 2010 at 1:02pm
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Yes it is because on this model there is no wheel for weight adjustement. The space echo is nice but I also have a Echolette tube tape delay and a Binson tube Echorec. Here a clsoe up of the preamp. Yesterday Disciple played on it ina revival style. Wicked session. 
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Posted By: joseph
Date Posted: 15 February 2010 at 8:05am
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yes Jo , there is a wheel for weight adjustement, trust me it was my garrard !! :)
on the tone arm , at the end , yu have a screw on top of the white arm .
just turn up this screw and yu will see the cartridge have less or more wright on the vynil .
cant remember which direction yu need to turn to have more or less of weight ... test it :)
please check yur pm !!
respects
weeda
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Posted By: jacethebase
Date Posted: 02 April 2010 at 9:25pm
 
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Posted By: Nitz V1505
Date Posted: 04 April 2010 at 5:01am
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Mmmmm....(drooling)...mmmmm!!!!!!! Just love them klark eq's and top notch processors in the bottom rack. ------------- LET THE BASS ROLL LIKE THUNDER & THE TOPS LIKE LIGHTNING..... |
Posted By: garlic
Date Posted: 04 April 2010 at 7:42pm
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Posted By: Dub Defector
Date Posted: 23 July 2010 at 9:36pm
From a recent session of ours..    ------------- Rough Every Time... http://www.dubselector.co.uk - http://www.dubselector.co.uk |
Posted By: tweeter box
Date Posted: 21 September 2010 at 2:40pm
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Posted By: TONY.A.S.S.
Date Posted: 21 September 2010 at 5:15pm
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Posted By: Rudeboy prento
Date Posted: 02 November 2012 at 11:21pm
 this is my control tower.. what do you think..
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Posted By: mans1000
Date Posted: 02 November 2012 at 11:47pm
Nice videos on youtube by the way. ------------- "The earth provides enough to satisfy every mans needs...but not every mans greed." |