Re: Altec 1592b 8 output conversion.


"Jandree" <jandree@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:1153105824.572447.45310@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Richard Crowley wrote:
"Jandree" <jandree@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>
> Richard Crowley wrote:
>> "Jandree" wrote ...
>> > Anybody know where I can find information about
>> > converting a 1592b from single output to multichannel
>> > output. I saw one for sale on ebay a few months back.
>> > I now have a 1592b and would like to modify it, but
>> > would like some advice.
>>
>> Depends on what you mean by "multichannel output"?
>>
>> If you mean feeding the monaural output to several
>> destinations, you can likely do that by "bridging"
>> more than one hi-Z load across the 1592's relatively
>> lo-Z output.
>>
>> If you mean making it "stereo" or something you are
>> looking at a major re-enginnering and re-wiring of the
>> unit.
>
> The unit I saw was set up for 8 individual channels, and yes there
> will
> be some major reworking.
> Thanks for your replay

The ones I'm familiar with have only 5 inputs.
What does "8 inidvidual channels" mean?

You are correct, my mind must have been somewhere else,. It does have
five inputs and a master gain. The one on ebay had the inputs operating
independently. If I remember correctly, it could be used in that
fashion (independent outputs) or switched back to a single output.

You can likely tap the signal from each input either pre
or post "fader", but that is such a simple (and antique)
circuit, it hardly seems worth the trouble. If you want
that "sound" go out and find some of those old "Peerless"
plug-in transformers. Between those and 1/2 a 12AX7,
that is all there is to it. It really isn't "magic". It is just
old.

.

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