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Sound Workshop 1280b Recording Console Mixer $1100obo - $1,100
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Hello and thanks for looking. I am helping out a friend by selling his Sound Workshop 1280b console. He has owned this for about 10 years, but since he has a large MCI console, he never used it beyond testing after purchase.
He asked me to take a look at it and put it up for sale. I took it home, put it on the bench and fired it up. After installing 1 new opamp and cleaning a couple switches, everything works. It's a pretty cool console, 12 channels of transformer balanced mic preamps, with eq and direct out on each channel. It makes a perfect little tracking console for someone working in the DAW.
I threw together a quick demo so you can hear exactly what you're getting (see YouTube link at bottom of post). The drums were tracked in a small but treated room with just 4 mics, pzm in the kick, 57 on snare, and 2 JZ67 as overheads. Bass was a DI straight into the board. Rhodes was through a polytone amp with a JZ67 on it. Rhythm gt was a 57 on a fender. For the solo I thought I would change things up and do something that many potential buyers would be using the board for. I used tone X in the DAW, and ran out through the board preamp iron and eq to give it a little life. Basically, what you hear is what came off the board. I only used 1 waves comp to reign in the dynamics etc, and HP/LP filters for eq. The only exception was the bass drum which had about 12 pounds too much beef on the bottom (these pre's aren't lacking in low end apparently) so I used a multiband comp to tame 120hz and below. That's it... Everything else you hear is what came off the board. A quick balance and Ozone limiter on the master and there you go. It was refreshingly easy to get the balance when you track everything through a console that has input transformers. It's very cohesive, and everything fits together easily. All in all, a pretty cool console.
As I mentioned above, and as you can see in the videos, everything is working. However, the buyer needs to be aware that if you're buying a vintage console, it's a responsibility. When you get this, especially if it's shipped, before you even fire it up, you should pop off the back, reseat the two main pcb's, give everything a good shot of de-oxit and fader lube. Give all the pots a good workout (there is mild scratcyness here and there as it sits now, but keep in mind, it hasn't had any love in over a decade. I'm sure once it has had this basic once over, it will be even better). This is just the reality of buying a vintage console. You would do the same for any console you buy. So... this is sold as is. But the good news is, even if something goes wrong down the road, first off, there's not much in there to go wrong, and second, it was built to be repaired. So while a new shiny mixer will work 100% out of the box right until the warranty runs out, good luck fixing it after that. This thing on the other hand will be alive and kicking for decades. Oh... and feel free to price out a new 12 channel console with mic input transformers on every channel. Or how about 12 channels of outboard preamps with eq? Honestly, you can't even buy the transformers for what this console costs.
Anyway... here's a chance to buy a really cool console that's functional, and in good physical condition, for a fair price. If you have any questions, feel free to ask, I'd be happy to help. Shipping is available, and I'm willing to meet halfway on the east coast for a small delivery fee. Thanks again for looking, have a great day.
PS, I have videos demonstrating all of the channels/preamps working. Just pm me your email and I'll send them over.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uq0VrvTstxM