Charles Frost -- Audio electronics

I'm active in home stereo, sound reinforcement, and audio recording
My Home Equipment. My Pro Audio Equipment.

What I do:
I'm not doing much live sound any more on my own; it's mainly at the theatre. I worked with a vocal trio with piano and guitar accompaniment. I also amplify soloists performing with a choir, usually in churches or medium size halls. If there is no acoustic piano I set up my Kawai MP9000 with a Fender KXR100. Recent gigs include African Sanctus and the Cumberland Heritage Village Museum Power Show.

The recording is a mix of live choral works in churches and smaller home concerts. I don't have a studio so I do location work. Most often I use a Shure VP88 to record the mid and side separately and do the XY conversion afterward. I have done it on a mixer using a splitter cable and three mixer channels as explained by Mike Sokol. Now I usually do it in Audacity. Works a treat. For choirs sometimes I do ORTF using the pair of AT 3528 pencil cardioids or the Elations. And sometimes I choose X-Y.

Recording done so far.
Harry Holbrook playing saxophone along with music minus one CDs (15 tracks).
Jazz quartet Voxquad (14 tracks)
Chorum vocal ensemble (live concerts)
Feedback in my basement (some multitrack and some direct to stereo).
My wife Anne and her accompanist Wita Schliewen.
Harmonia Choir of Eastern Ottawa (two live concerts)
Piano and Cello (David Eggert most recently)
Soprano with guitar (Bonnie Cooper and Chris Milne)
Will Ackerman and David Cullen
Carla Sved
Cumberland Community Singers

Baking my reel-to-reel tapes.
I do half a dozen at a time then rewind them and play them through to make sure they are still good. I am using a normal oven, heated by a 100 W light bulb with the oven door cracked open. I also have a little computer fan to keep the air moving around, though I did some tapes without it and they turned out OK as well. My tapes are mostly Sony SLH-7-550-BL and Maxell UDXL-35-90B. Others include Scotch Classic and Sony PR-150.

Wanted list:
Gig bags for the Mackies.

Manuals wanted:
SAE P102
KLH 1201A dynamic noise reduction
Uher Universal 5000

Manuals available (for sale or trade):
Many of the below items.

THE GEAR (MY TOYS)

Home Stereo

Upstairs System:
Yamaha CR-800 receiver -- in continuous service since 1977. I like the variable loudness control
Teac V-530X cassette deck
Sony DVP-NS325 DVD/CD player
Rane AC22 crossover
Marantz Model 140 power amp
M&K Satellite One speakers (driven by the power amp section of the Yamaha)
Canton 12" subwoofer (driven by the Marantz)

Downstairs System:
Sanyo Plus 35 tuner
Nikko ND-800C cassette deck
Harmon/Kardon HD500 CD player
Technics SL 1400 Mk 2 turntable w/ Stanton 881S cartridge
Spectro-Acoustics Model 210 equalizer
dbx type II 224X noise reduction
SAE 5000 Impulse Noise Reduction System
SAE P102 preamp
Bryston 3B-ST power amp
Eminent LFT-8 flat panels

Standby components: (not necessarily for sale!)
Yamaha TC-1000 cassette deck -- good and solid
Technics SL 1700 w/ Shure V-15 type IV and Shure M95ED
Sharp DX-677 CD player
Sony TA-2000 preamp
Accuphase P-20 power amp
Mitsubishi DA-A15 amp (nice big meters)

Reel to Reel
Ampex AG500 mono (needs overhaul)
Pioneer RT1020L
Pioneer RT707
Realistic TR-3000 (a Teac X-3 in disguise)
Sony TC-366
Sony TC-377
Teac 3340S (four channel)
Uher Universal 5000 (portable)

Pro Audio

Microphones and DIs

Apex 125 (econo bass drum mic)
Audio Technica AT 3525 (LD condensor)
Audio Technica AT 3528 (econo pencil cardioid condensors) (qty 3)
Beyerdynamic M500TG (my one and only ribbon)
Beyerdynamic M69N(C) (pair) & M69TG (hypercardioid dynamics)
Beyerdynamic M88 TG (cardioid dynamic)
CAD M179 (LD multi-pattern condensors) (pair)
Elation KM201 with cardioid and omni capsules (pair)
EV Cobalt Co4 (cardioid dynamic instrument mic) (pair)
EV N/D367 (The Female Vocal Mic)
EV 635A (omni dynamic)
EV N/D468 (cardioid dynamic instrument)
Neumann KMS 105 (hypercardioid live vocal condensor)
Oktava MK219 (LD condensor)
Peavey PVM 520TN (cardioid dynamic)
Realistic PZM (boundary microphone) (running on 12 V)
Samson CR-3x wireless receiver with SM58 mic
Sennheiser MD431-II (supercardioid dynamic)
Sennheiser MD441-U and U3 (hypercardioid dynamics)
Shure Beta 87A (hypercardioid live vocal condensor)
Shure VP88 (Mid-Side condensor)
Yamaha MZ103Be (cardioid dynamic) (qty 3)
Behringer DI 4000
DOD 260 DI boxes (qty 4)

Multitrack Recording Rig:
Tascam MX-2424 with remote (RC-2424), analog (IF-AN24) and ADAT (IF-AD24) interfaces
MOTU 828 Mk II (for monitoring)
Mackie Onyx 800R preamp
Presonus Digimax LT preamp
Lucid GENx192 Word Clock Generator

Stereo Location Recording Rig:
Apogee Mini-MP preamp
Mytek Stereo98 ADC
Benchmark DAC1 (for monitoring)
M-Audio Microtrack 24/96

Other gear:
Event EMP-1 preamp, intended for use with the ribbon mic.
D-Box M70A powered monitors
Event 20/20bas powered monitors
AKG K240DF headphones (3 pairs)
Alesis Micro Cue Headphone Amp
Presonus HP4 Headphone Amp

Audio PC
P4-1.7 PC running Cool Edit Pro under Windows 2000
e-mu 1212 sound card
M-Audio 1010LT sound card
Echo Darla sound card
Event EZ8 PCI ADAT interface

Live Sound Gear:

Normal gigs:
Yamaha 01v mixer with MY8AT
homemade 12+4 snake (43 m)
Koss Pro4/AAA headphones
Mackie SRM450 (pair)
JBL Eon10 G2 (pair)

If required extra gear:
Peavey 701R mixer
Roland M-16E mixer
Soundcraft Spirit Folio Notepad mixer
Lucid GENx6-96 Word Clock Generator and CLKx6 Distributor
Korg DRV1000 reverb
t.c. electronic M-One XL effects
Alto Control60 stereo 30 band digital EQ
Tascam PE-40 parametric EQ
Peavey EQ-215 graphic EQ
Ross R15S graphic EQ
Behringer MDX4400 compressor/limiter
dbx 166XL compressor/limiter/gate
Sony SRP-L200 compressor/expander
Yamaha GC2020B compressor/limiter
KLH 1201A dynamic noise reduction
custom 6-chan snake (43 m)
custom 12+4 chan snake (43 m)
Ashly SC70 crossovers (pair)
Yamaha F1040 crossovers (pair)
Amcron (Crown) Power Line One amp
Samson Servo-240 amp
Soundcraftsmen MA5002 amp
Yamaha P2200 amps
Bass bins loaded with Altec 421As
Mid horns with JBL 2345 and 2470
HH bullet tweeters
Yorkville Bloc40W powered stage monitors (pair) [for sale]

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