Whatever happened to?

burningbush wrote: Weighty, wasn't an early flar-e cab then?

colint wrote: And what about Red Acoustic's probably the first ever active speaker 300 watt per cab via 3 amp's one for each 8" bass driver and one for the tweeters oh and the cabs were made from steel.

used to have a pair of these, bloody heavy and bloody loud- glowed in the dark as well


Edited by woody2 - 03 May 2014 at 6:52pm

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Geezers name was Brian Newman--shortish and bald--looked a bit like a mad professor but one of the nicest and most helpful blokes in the business in those days--we used to sell his range of decks in our two shops to offer an alternative to Citronic, Ice and Cloud--they were a bit old fashioned but very reliable, especially the real big console with built in amps, cassette deck and sound to light unit.
The Night Out certainly brings back some memories for me as we did loads of work there with some big name acts and then the Dome---It was a big shame when Barbarellas closed down as I loved that venue. [/QUOTE]

Do you mean the old Discosound Roadstar Robbo?, a big old beast, 4 foot wide and 57kgs!

I've had three of these stored away, but just hung on to one these days, its just too big and heavy to move single handed! Still got all the electronics from another one as well 'just in case'!

Good to see all this about the old stuff, but not too much about the old Nottingham made original CARLSBRO gear. I still use a fair bit of this old kit on my retro disco show, it never lets me down, gets driven hard, and still turns a few heads!

Hi Colin, here's some pictures of my original Carlsbro amps that I use on my show, hope these are OK for you. The SHOWMAN amp was a colaberation between Carlsbro and  Nottingham showman James Mellors, and were a special order items for the fairground. the amps had a custom made front end , coupled to the standard S800 slave amp, and the cases were a bit deeper, to acommodate the mixer front end. The inputs were for 2 magnetic cartridges via a rotary crossfader, 2 mic inputs, and yes the customary tape input. most of these amps were powered all of there working life from a generator, and survived the endless fluctuations in both voltage and cycles, and nearly 40 years on, I am still using the amp. Definitely says something about british amps.  I will post a picture of the speakers when I get a minute.