I had the pleasure and privelidge of meeting Ted Fletcher yesterday . He very kindly agreed to let me bring my newly aquired ITAM 10/4 mixer to him for an overhaul.As you can see in the video the Mixer will be fully serviced and brought back to working conditions. I’m so excited about this .
Here’s the clip
Another one to follow .
Who would have believed at the time that equipment like this would be cherished and used again in the 21st century!
Technically, a modern digital mixer is superior in performance and the facilities and versatility is far superior to our 1970s efforts, and yet the sound created from the Itam 10/4, the Alice 828, the 828S and other analogue mixers of the day, has a comforting warmth and ‘stability’ that is missing from later electronics.
I can argue that it’s down to overload margins and the onset of various sorts of harmonic distortion, but then I start to sound like a HiFi anorak; the truth is complex but undeniable, as Joe Meek used to say, ‘If it sounds right………’
