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<blockquote data-quote="John Petrucelli" data-source="post: 41203" data-attributes="member: 150">Re: Does anyone remember the Allen &amp; Heath SRM console?Tim,Remember it, I designed it! (Let&#039;s see how much I actually remember..., this goes back over 25 years)Chuck &amp; I were still working on the (dummy) prototype in the hotel room the night before its first showing (probably at NAMM).Pots &amp; switches stuck onto pieces of corrugated and then hot-glued onto the inside of the metalwork...Built into a roadcase, it was a heavy beast. First armrest was white, looked terrible so we painted it black for the show.Basic circuitry based on the other A&amp;H products at the time, so it should perform like other &quot;British&quot; consoles of that era.I think the audio busing was actually tinned copper bus wire soldered to the individual channel cards, so no ribbon problems <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":-)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :-)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":-)" />Things to worry about:Lots of electrolytic caps in there; some may have dried out and will give you poor low-freq response.Power supply was an external MPS-8 (I think), stored it under the hinged armrest (clever). Those have been known to fail over time.General wearing-out of the controls. The Seller says it&#039;s been in-use up til now, so the controls have gotten some recent exercise (good).Specific parts for repair will be hard to source (pots mainly). But, for $250, how could you go wrong!JP (Ex-A&amp;H)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="John Petrucelli, post: 41203, member: 150"] Re: Does anyone remember the Allen & Heath SRM console? Tim, Remember it, I designed it! (Let's see how much I actually remember..., this goes back over 25 years) Chuck & I were still working on the (dummy) prototype in the hotel room the night before its first showing (probably at NAMM). Pots & switches stuck onto pieces of corrugated and then hot-glued onto the inside of the metalwork... Built into a roadcase, it was a heavy beast. First armrest was white, looked terrible so we painted it black for the show. Basic circuitry based on the other A&H products at the time, so it should perform like other "British" consoles of that era. I think the audio busing was actually tinned copper bus wire soldered to the individual channel cards, so no ribbon problems :-) Things to worry about: Lots of electrolytic caps in there; some may have dried out and will give you poor low-freq response. Power supply was an external MPS-8 (I think), stored it under the hinged armrest (clever). Those have been known to fail over time. General wearing-out of the controls. The Seller says it's been in-use up til now, so the controls have gotten some recent exercise (good). Specific parts for repair will be hard to source (pots mainly). But, for $250, how could you go wrong! JP (Ex-A&H) [/QUOTE]

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